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'Treaties and Agreements between the British Government and Certain Arab Rulers and Agreements between the Said Rulers inter se Affecting the British Government' [‎22r] (48/54)

The record is made up of 1 volume (23 folios). It was created in 1926. 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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on the border ought to prevail, and that
any disputes arising from the aggressions
of tribes, even in such complicated in
stances as those mentioned by Your High
ness, will be capable of settlement without
real difficulty by the two Governments of
' Iraq and Nejd acting in sincere co-opera
tion.
4. With regard to Your Highness'
misgivings as to the efficacy of an agree
ment such as I have proposed, I rely with
full confidence on Your Highness' re
peated assurances of good-will and sincere
desire for peace and order on the frontier.
I have, etc.,
GILBERT CLAYTON.
Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.B.U., etc., His
Britannic Majesty s Commissioner and
plenipotentiary ^ to Ihs Highness
4 Abdul-'Aziz ihn ' Ahdv? r-Bafiman
cd-Faisal Al Sa'ud, Sultan of Nejd and
its Dependencies.
Bahra,
The 31st October, 1925.
Youe Highness,
1 have the honour to recall that in one of
our recent conversations I spoke to Youi
Highness about the necessity of settling
the question of loot and losses resulting
from past raids by tribes from ' Iraq and
Keid, and we agreed that it would be
necessary to lay down general principles
and formulate a procedure for the satis
factory An East India Company trading post. settlement of this question.
2 In accordance with our agreement,
Taufiq Bey Suwaidi, the 'Iraq representa
tive, has discussed the question with
Sheikh Hafiz and Sheikh Yusuf, and they
have come to a preliminary agreement
on the subject. I have the honour, there
fore, to request that Your Highness may,
if you see fit, signify to me your concur
rence in the following proposals
(a) That the 'Uqair Conference
should be taken as the start
ing point for reckoning the
looses claimed respectively by
' Iraq and Kcjd on account of
the raids which have taken
place between that Conference
and the date of ratification by
the 'Iraq Government of the
Bahra Agreement.
O j ) That the tribunal provided for
in Article 2 of the Bahra
Agreement should be charged

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The volume is Treaties and Agreements between the British Government and Certain Arab Rulers and Agreements between the Said Rulers inter se Affecting the British Government (Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1926). The volume contains transcripts of treaties and agreements dated 1915 to 1925 relating to Najd, Qatar, Iraq, Kuwait, Trans-Jordan, and Kaf.

The texts of some of the treaties and agreements appear in both English and Arabic in vertical parallel columns.

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1 volume (23 folios)
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There is a list of the treaties and agreements recorded towards the front of the volume, on folio 3.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 25 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. An original printed pagination sequence is also present in the volume. The following folio folds out: f. 15.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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