This was accordingly introduced into the Commons.

It enacted, but with one exception, that from and after the first of August 1806, no vessel should clear out for the Slave-trade, unless it should have been previously employed by the same owner or owners in the said trade, or should be proved to have been contracted for previously to the tenth of June 1806, for the purpose of being employed in that trade.

It may now be sufficient to say that this bill also passed both houses of parliament; soon after which the session ended..