Dr. A. Sims, of the American Baptist Missionary Union;
George Grenfell, of the Baptist Missionary Society Corporation, Secretary.
The members of the Commission are to inform the Judicial authorities of any acts of violence of which the natives may be the victims.
Each of the members, individually, may exercise this right of protection, and communicate directly with the Governor-General.
The Commission shall further indicate to the Government the measures to be taken to prevent slave-trading, to render more effective the prohibition or restriction of the trade in spirituous liquors, and gradually to bring about the abolition of barbarous customs, such as cannibalism, human sacrifices, ordeal by poison, etc.
Our Secretary of State is charged with the execution of the present Decree.
Done at Brussels, the 18th September, 1896.
(Signed) Leopold.
By the King-Sovereign:
The Secretary of State,
(Signed) Edm. van Eetvelde.
LETTER OF INSTRUCTION FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL AT BOMA IN RE PROTECTION OF NATIVES