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'File A/7 Draft of slave treaty with Bahrain' [‎8r] (17/40)

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The record is made up of 1 file (18 folios). It was created in 10 Jun 1913-8 Mar 1914. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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Enclosure No. 5:- 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. to Foreign Office.
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. ,
6th August 1915.
Sir,
I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 21st July, No. 86,740, enclosing copy of a
memorandum regarding the legal difficulty in giving Slave
Trade jurisdiction to the Persian Coast Court and the Bahrain
Court. 9 In reply I am to state that the Marquess of Crewe
agrees that in order to exercise such Jusri^diction acourt
must either be in His Majesty's dominions or be an East Afri
can Court within the meaning of the Slave Trade (East African
Courts) Act of 1875. The Slave Trade (East African) Act of
1879 expressly constitutes the Masqat Court an East African
Court, and as the Masqat Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. gives that Court
Slave Trade jurisdiction, no difficulty exists so far ss the
Masqat Court is concerned.
With reference however to the view taken in the Memorandum
that in 1879 such jurisdiction could not have been validly
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conferred upon a consular court in the Persian uulf outsidr©
Masqat, and to the doubt expressed whetherp it can be con
ferred upon an extra-territorial court, his Lordship is ad
vised that the Act of 1875 appears expressly to contemplate
.the conferring 6f jurisdiction where there is an existing
East African Slave Trade Treaty with a foreign State on the
shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. or in any island lying off Arabia,
or where there may be a future treaty to that effect. He
admits that in the absence of an East African Slave Tr de
Treaty, in respect of Bahrain or the Persian Conet and Jal'-ir.ds
the provisions of Section 7 of the Act do not apply, and the
power under that section to confer jurisdiction on the res
pective Courts cannot be exercised; and he therefore thinks
it desirable that this impediment should be removed, if
- possible, by the conclusion of new Slave Trade Treaties.
As regards Bahrain, I aip to observe that the Treaty of
10 th

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The contents of the file relate to British jurisdiction over the slave trade in the Gulf. Folios 1b-11 are a letter dated 28 January 1914 (with enclosures dating back to June 1913) from the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (John Lorimer) to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Bahrain (Major Arthur Trevor). The letter refers to a proposal from the 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. in London, that the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Bahrain be given legal jurisdiction in slave trade cases arising in the Gulf. A number of the enclosures included with the letter are memoranda exchanged between officials in the 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. and Foreign Office in London, noting the legal difficulties in providing jurisdiction over the slave trade in the Persian coast and Bahrain courts, because neither are in His Majesty’s dominions, or are an East African court, which already had jurisdiction in slave trade matters (folio 8).

To circumvent these difficulties, a new slave trade treaty with the Shaikh of Bahrain was proposed, under instruction from the Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey. Drafts of the new treaty (in English and Arabic, folios 15-18), which was in part based on the 1873 Slave Trade treaty with Muscat and the 1882 Slave Trade Convention with Persia, were forwarded by Trevor to the Resident in March 1914.

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1 file (18 folios)
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The contents of the file are arranged in approximate chronological order. Enclosures to correspondence are arranged in chronological order after the letter they were enclosed with.

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Foliation: The file is foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover, using circled pencil numbers in the top-right corner of each recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. . The following foliation anomalies occur: 1a, 1b. There is no folio 1 (the front cover is numbered 1a).

There is evidence of insect damage, in the form of holes, throughout the file. This damage is not sufficient to impair the legibility of the file's contents.

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