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Article 12. If, God forbid, the Government should have to fight with a
foreign power, or if there should be any internal disturbance in any Vilayet and
the Government asks the said Wali for a force to co-operate with its own forces,
it is incumbent on the Wali to prepare a sufficient force with provisions and
ammunition, and to respond to the demand at once, according to his power and
ability.
(Signed)
(Signed)
A bdul A ziz,
Wali of
Nejd Vilayet, and
of its Army.
Commander
S uleiman S hafik B in A li K amali,
Wali of Basrah Vilayet, and Commander
of its Forces.
APPENDIX B.
Lor. II,
1428--9.
1368.
Aitch.
Vol. XII,
pp. 245-9.
Lor. II, 405.
Lor. II, 264.
Boundaries of the Trucial Sheikhdoms (Lorimer, 1905). .
1. Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , being the area at present occupied by the Trucial Sheikh
doms (excluding Qatar), runs in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. from the Khor al Odeid in the
West to Sha'am in the East and in the Gulf of Oman from Khor Kalba to Dibah,
the places named all being included in it. Inland on one side, it is bounded by a
line of uncertain course which runs from a spot between the contiguous villages
of Dibah and Bai'ah on the East coast to Ras Shaam on the West coast, and so
divides it from the Ruus-al-Jibal district of the Oman Sultanate to the North;
on another by a line even more indeterminate, which leaves the Gulf between
Khor Kalba and Murair and after partially crossing the promontory in such a
way as to exclude the Madadhah and Jau districts to the South, is eventually
lost in South Khatam; West of Khatam the inland limit of Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. is at
the commencement of the Ruba al Khali and the Jafarah deserts.
2. The existing Trucial Sheikhdoms are Abu Dhabi, Debai, Sharjah, Ajman,
Umm al Qaiwain, and Ras al Khaimah. The rulers of those principalities in
1820 signed the Trucial Treaty with His Majesty's Government.
3. The boundaries (omitting mention of insular possessions),of the Trucial
Sheikhdoms as laid down in Lorimer's Gazetteer (1905) are as follows :—
A hu Dhabi.
4. From Khor al Ghanadhah on the East to the Khor-al-Odeid (the
northern shore of which inlet should in Lorimer's view, perhaps be reckoned as
included with the inlet itself in his territories) on the West—a distance of over
200 miles. " Inland the frontiers of Abu Dhabi are not defined : it is asserted
that on the East they reach to the Baraimi oasis, but without taking it in; and
on the South they may presumably be placed at the margin of the Ruba' al
Khali." A regular tribute was paid to Abu Dhabi by the Dhawahir, " who are
numerically a majority in Baraimi, though Baraimi was itself independent
(see paragraph 12 below).
Lor. II, 454. Debai.
Lor. II,
1757-8.
Ajman-
9.
5. West boundary, the Khor al Ghanadhah. East boundary, Abu Hail.
Shargah.
6. "With the exception of the small Shaikhdoms of Ajman and Umni-
Lor. II, 1757. al-Qaiwain on the West coast, and of a part of the interior which is
virtually independent, it may be considered to embrace everything between a liitf
joining Sha'am to Dibah on the North, and another connecting Sharjah Town
and Khor Kalba on the South. On the East it is bounded by the Gulf of Oman,
and on the West by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ."
7. Its boundary with Ajman is at a place called Dabdabah, 2^ miles from the
North end of the date groves of Sharjah Town; and with Debai at Abu Hail.
Ij01 . n 8. Inland, Sharjah proper "does not, it is stated, extend beyond Wasit, a
1757-8! locality 5 miles East of Sharjah Town, the tract between this and Dhaid not being
under the Sheikh's control." The detached oasis of Dhaid is administered
through a Wali.