No British confrontations have occurred with Asante…

No British confrontations have occurred with Asante between 1830 and 1843 while George Maclean is in charge of affairs on the Gold Coast,  and the volume of trade reportedly increases threefold.

Maclean's exercise of limited judicial power on the coast is so effective that a parliamentary committee recommends that the British government permanently administer its settlements and negotiate treaties with the coastal chiefs that will define Britain's relations with them.

The government does so in 1843, the same year crown government is reinstated.

Commander H. Worsley Hill is appointed first governor of the Gold Coast.

Under Maclean's administration, several coastal tribes had submitted voluntarily to British protection.

Hill proceeds to define the conditions and responsibilities of his jurisdiction over the protected areas.

He negotiates a special treaty with a number of Fante and other local chiefs that becomes known as the Bond of 1844.

This document obliges local leaders to submit serious crimes, such as murder and robbery, to British jurisdiction and lays the legal foundation for subsequent British colonization of the coastal area.