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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎343] (385/733)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (364 folios). It was created in 1856. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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JOASMEES.
343
breach of the treaty negotiated at his mediation, at a time when,
but for the timely exertion of his influence, he would have been placed
in a situation of great difficulty and peril, and as inevitably leading to
a renewal of hostilities with the Joasmee Chief.
ihe only occurrences of notice during this season were some petty
misunderstandings between the Shargah and Aboothabee people, in
consequence of the arrest of a person in the latter port for debt, and the
seizme of a mast from a Shargah boat. This spar had originally been
lost from a wrecked vessel belonging to Sultan, the brother of the Beni-
yas Chief, and, having been picked up at sea, had been sold to its present,
possessor. An accidental collision between a Shargah and Aboothabee
Buggarah on the pearl banks led to blows with sticks between the
crews; but the quarrel was made up, and the Nakhoda of the former
craft severely taken to task by his chief for his irregular conduct.
Subsequent to the visit of the Resident to the Arabian Coast, as before
a. d. 1842. mentioned. Shaikh Abdoolla bin Rashid, the
Chief of Amulgavine, notwithstanding the
remonstrances he had received, and the disapprobation with which his
designs had been viewed, commenced the building of the proscribed
towers, and the construction of another for the defence of the back
water. The Joasmee Chiefs repeated representations, calling upon the
Resident, as mediator, to compel fulfilment of the conditions of the
treaty entered into through his mediation, now thus openly violated,
induced that functionary to depute his Assistant to the Arabian Coast in
November of this year, with a view to the settlement of the misunder
standing between them.
Ihe charge made by Shaikh Sultan bin Suggur was found to be
correct. It was, indeed, admitted by Shaikh Abdoolla bin Rashid ; nor
could he adduce any palliatory plea for his conduct in the commission
of any, the slightest breach of the compact, on the part of the former;
but urged merely, in excuse of his faithless act, the necessity of every
precaution in self-defence against so intriguing and treacherous a
person as the Joasmee Chief. He further expressed his determination^
on the same grounds, not onlyrto complete the tower in question, but to
build others; and on being reminded of the circumstances under
which the Resident's timely mediation had been afforded, by which
he had been saved from inevitable ruin, and pressed to consider
the necessity of fulfilling strictly the conditions by which he
was bound, under pain of the severe displeasure of Government
and the probable chance of its coercing him in the event of hesi
tation or refusal, he stated positively that he would not destroy
the buildings he had lately erected, but that his tower, and all that
belonged to him, being at the disposal of the Government, it might act

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The volume is Selections from the records of the Bombay Government , compiled and edited by Robert Hughes Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Political Department, New Series: 24 (Bombay: Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1856).

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1 volume (364 folios)
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The volume contains an abstract of contents on p. iii, a detailed list of contents on pp. vii-xx, an alphabetical index on pp. xxi-xxvii, and a list of maps etc on p. xviii.

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Pagination: two separate pagination sequences are present in the volume. The first sequence (pp. i-xviii) commences at the first page and terminates at the list of maps (p. xviii). A second pagination sequence then takes over (pp. 1-688), commencing at the title page and terminating at the final page. Both these pagination sequences are printed, with additions in pencil, and the numbers are found at the top (left, right or centre) of each page.

The fold-outs in this volume were not paginated by the publisher. As a result, these have been foliated using the nearest page number. For example, the fold-out attached to p.51 has been numbered as 51A.

Pagination anomalies: pp. 15, 15A; 45, 45A; 49, 49A; 51, 51A; 531, 531A.

The following pages need to be folded out to be read: 15A, 45A, 51A, 327-328, 531A.

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