 The various acts of William IV relating to slave compensation were to be considered, as far as applicable, to apply to this act.Slave owners were paid approximately £20 million in compensation in over 40,000 awards for enslaved people freed in the colonies of the Caribbean, Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope according to a government census that named all owners as of 1 August 1834.University College London has set up a project "Legacies of British Slave-ownership" which aims to list the individuals who received compensation.