مجموعة ٢٥/ ١٨ "مراسيم ملكية بريطانية: قطر: السلطة القضائية على الأجانب في قطر" [و‎‎٢‎٩‎٤] (٦٣٥/٥٨٧)

Minute Paper. political Department.
Mr« Clauson
Please see paragraph 3 of Colonel Fowle’s
demi-official letter of 26th July at P.Z.5303/35, where
he states that the "subjects of the Arab States of the
Persian Gulf have always been treated as British
protected persons in the Gulf" (i.e. for jurisdictional
purposes)•
2, This statement certainly does not square with
the position as we in this Office have always imagined
it to be under the Orders in Council at Bahrein, Koweit
and Iviuscat, nor I think does it square with our papers,
at any rate as regards Bahrein, The Bahrein Order in
Council of ie>3 provides for the jurisdiction of the
Political Agent over British subjects, including British
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protected persons, this Order in Council was drawn
up in the light of and with full knowledge of the
Sheikh r s representations that his delegation of
jurisdiction over foreigners to the British Government
in 1909 was intended only "to cover subjects of
recognised Powers and not the dependants of petty Arab
potentates in the Gulf". It is true that at Bahrein
jurisdiction over natives of Koweit, Muscat, Qatar and
the Trucial Sheikhdoms is at present exercised by the
Political Agent and not by the Sheikh, but this is not
because these persons are regarded as "British protected
persons" in the ordinary sense, but because in 1920, as
the result of protests received from Ibn Saud and the
Sheikh of Qatar regarding the exercise of jurisdiction
over their subjects by the Sheikh of Bahrein, the
Political Agent issued a notice that all foreign^ubjects,
including Persians and subjects of the Arab rulers and
chiefs other than those of Bahrein, were, while in
Bahrein/