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lotice of wbat was required on his part, produced a list of 90 supple-
1 tarv claims by ; Omani subjects against the Rmds ; and Sir R.
Sandeman and Colonel Ross, 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. ,
ed that these should be disposed of at a meeting- between Colonel
Miles 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. at Masqat, and Mr. Ffmch. The arrange
ment,' however, broke down on a preliminary point.
The whole matter then came before the Government of India, with a
strone recommendation on the part of Sir R. Sandeman that the Rinds
should be treated with leniency and in accordance with tribal custom;
and his report was very carefully reviewed, 'ihe proposed settlement,
however, was not approved by the Government of India ; and instead a
special tribunal was constituted, with powers to consider all claims
against and by the Rinds, including claims already disposed of by
Sir 11. Sandeman when a retrial of such might appear to the couit itself
to be advisable. It was ordered that claims of more than twelve years
standing should be treated as time-barred; but, with a view to a complete
Rpftlerapnt the Sultan of ' Oman was persuaded to agree to the
submission of the celebrated Rind claim on account of the three tnbesmen
killed at Gwadar in 1879 to the judgment of the tribunal i oi ti c
trial of the bulk of the cases the court consisted of Colonel Reynolds
of the Batochistan Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and Colonel Miles 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. a
Masqat but in the disposal of telegraph claims the place of Colont
Miles was taken by Mr. Ffinch, Director of Telegraphs; the tubunal
was assisted in its deliberations by native ^ ses l s ° 1 ^ au j
interests, respectively, of M asqat, Kalat auc e "i ' , St . wcre
counter-cases settled amounted to 1-3 m a . 11 mt f nr times
telegraph cases; and it was proved that the liad
and that telegraph employes had several tinier een ioj j .
of the Jamadar kidnapped and property loo ed m 188.3 a ^ ^f R^20
was imposed on account of the damage ^made good ^
110 general cases included 5 of considerab e raids
robbery, and a number relating to Pf cat with ^
claim of 1879. Except in regard to the
referred for decision to the Oovernment t ' , L V o nr 0 f the
themselves in complete accord. No decrees ■u eic l >aSb , i p £ Arab and
Rmds; but judgment was given against the on bd^f of ^ Ai^i and
British subjects, for sums aluuullt,u ", to an a vvere concludoa
pectively. The proceedings began on the Gtn
on the 16th of April 1885.
The findings of the special court in
for one trifling modification accepted by t l.e G with cdonel
stood; and, concurring with Colonel Wiles f, was fo] . au
Reynolds, they rejected the Kind dal1 ? 1 of { h j ecu ti 0 n of the award
amount exceeding Rs. 6,000. The question o expect that
was one of some difficulty, for the f^ past
no serious demands would be made agains , ' of coercing
offences, and there were also doubts as to ' ifiimtelv in view of
the tribe without resort to expensive operations, so u - ' g j uce 1883,
these facts, of the improvement in the behavioui o Q ov ernment of
and of their submission to Sir R. Sandeman in k j{iuds on
India decided themselves to undertake the obligations ot
Settlement
with the
Kinds, 1885*
86.