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File 619/1907 Pt 10 'Arms traffic:- Persian Gulf. Prize Money for captures in Persian Gulf.' [‎134v] (273/424)

The record is made up of 1 volume (210 folios). It was created in 20 Apr 1908-24 Sep 1915. 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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The Persian Government is also ready to join with Her Majesty s
Government in requesting the Sultan of Muskat to notify m the ports and
territories of Muskat that arms should not be imported from that side into
Persia or Hindustan, also that English ships should exercise in regard to
search and confiscation the same rights m Muskat as m Persian waters.
APPENDIX VI.
(Muskat Agreement, 1898.)
( 1 .)
Letter from the Sultan of J\Iushat to the Political liesident in the 1 ei siau
Gulf, dated I2>th January 1898
(After compliments.)
Your esteemed letter of yesterday’s date has arrived, together with the
draft copy of the Notification ; we have accepted it and we shall publish it;
a cony of it is (herewith) sent to you. As to the second draft, we have
already sent to you a letter containing our compliance with what you desire
in respect of preventing the sending of arms and ammunition to the two
countries—India and Persia—as is plainly stated in the_ Notification. We
have complied with it most willingly ; and we associate with the British and
Persian Governments in the arrangements that are made and will be hereafter
made for the suppression of this trade in arms and ammunition. With
regard to what you have hinted to us, about representing this matter to the
great Government in the best way possible, so that we should be (not only)
guaranteed against any loss, but (also) derive benefit by what we are doing
to help the Government, we shall most gladly exert to the utmost in that
matter, and we firmly believe that the Government and yourself will not be
pleased with any loss to us. We shall thank the Government and yourself
for that. May you always remain in a good state. And salaams.
( 2 .)
Notification by the Sultan of Muskat, dated 13th January 1898.
Be it known to such of our subjects as see this that, whereas the British
and Persian Governments have represented to us that they are desirous of
preventing introduction of arms and ammunition into India and Persia, and
that there is reason to think that many are exported from Muskat and taken
to those two above-named countries, we have resolved to join them and to
assist them as far as it lies in our power in suppressing this trade in arms
and ammunition between Muskat and India and Persia. We therefore warn
(our subjects) that all the arms and ammunition sent to those two countries
will be confiscated, and those engaged in the trade will be punished, as the
introduction of arms and ammunition into India and Persia is prohibited by
the Governments of those two countries, and, therefore, illegal.
In future our Muskat flag will be no protection to vessels carrying the
said arms and ammunition from our dominions to India and Persia. (This
is written) that it may be known.
Proclamation by the Sultan of Muskat, dated 13th January 1898.
Be it known to all who see it that we have given permission to British
and Persian vessels of war to search vessels carrying their and our flags in
our territorial waters and to confiscate all arms and ammunition (weapons of

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The correspondence discusses the award of prize money to the officers and crews of British Naval vessels that had seized dhows containing arms and ammunition in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

The correspondence discusses the values to be assigned to different types of arms and ammunition, and the decision by the Government of India to make a grant to the Admiralty from the Indian Revenues to cover the prize money owed for seizures from November 1910 to November 1912.

The principal correspondents include the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (H W [Herbert William?] James, Allen Thomas Hunt, and James Charles Tancred); the Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Station (George John Scott Warrender, Edmond John Warre Slade, Alexander Edward Bethell, and Richard Henry Peirse); 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. (Percy Zachariah Cox); the Secretary of State for India (John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, and Robert Crew-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe); the Secretary to the Foreign Department of the Government of India (Spencer Harcourt Butler, Arthur Henry McMahon); the Secretary to the Marine Department of the Government of India (Ernest William Stuart King Maconchy, and William Riddell Bird); 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. and Consul at Muscat (Robert Erskine Holland, Stuart George Knox); the Viceroy of India (Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst); and representatives of the Admiralty, the Foreign Office and 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. .

Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 volume (210 folios)
Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

The subject 619 (Arms Traffic) consists of 7 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/110-116. The volumes are divided into 10 parts, with parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 comprising one volume each, parts 6, 7, 8, and 9 comprising the sixth volume and part 10 comprising the seventh volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 210; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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