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Coll 1/12 'Policy in the Protectorate: treaty with the Upper Yafai Chiefs, and other Chiefs in the Protectorate' [‎169v] (338/376)

The record is made up of 1 file (188 folios). It was created in 14 Feb 1929-1 Aug 1939. 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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No. 14434/25 ; not printed.
ing an alteration in the text of the Treaty, but I should be glad
if you would consider whether, if and when negotiations on the
subject are re-opened, it might not be possible to make some
small addition to the text so as to cover the point raised by the
Board of Trade.
3. I desire further to direct your attention to the last paragraph
of the enclosed letter. I concur in the view that no agreemej«v
should be reached under Article XIV of the Treaty without fu.
consideration of the question by His Majesty’s Government.
I have, &c.,
(For the Secretary of State);
W. ORMSBY-GORE.
Commercial Relations and Treaties Department,
Board of Trade,
Great George Street, London, S.W.l.
27th April, 1925.
C.R.T. 1126/25.
Sir,
With reference to your letter of the 1st April,* transmitting
copy of a despatch 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. at Aden, on the
subject of the proposed Treaty with the Imam of San‘a, T am
directed by the Board of Trade to state that they now under
stand that the expression “ dues ” as used in Article VIII is
intended to include only charges levied on the transport of goods,
while the “ taxes ” on goods referred to in Article IX would
be of the nature of customs or consumption duties.
1 he Board would still prefer, should this become practicable,
that Article IX should be amended to secure most-favoured-nation
treatment in terms for British goods as distinct from most
favoured-nation treatment for British subjects who may import
them, but failing this it might be feasible to make it clearer that
the “ taxes on the subjects ” referred to in Article IX do in fact
include duties levied on the goods imported by such subjects.
As regards Article XIV, the Mokha Lighthouse is one of the
four lighthouses for the Red Sea, the construction and main
tenance of which was conceded in 1899 by the Turkish Govern
ment to the Administrative Generale des Phares de 1 ’Empire
Ottoman. 1 he future of the other three lighthouses is, as Mr.
Secretary Amery will be aware, now the subject of correspondence
between the foreign Office and the French Ambassador, and it
is accordingly desirable that nothing should be agreed under this
Article XIV or otherwise, in regard to the future of the Mokha
Light without full consideration of the bearing of any such agree
ment on the question of the other lights.
I have, &c.,
The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
H. FOUNTAIN.

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The file contains papers regarding proposals to alter the basis of treaty relationships with tribes in the Aden Protectorate, comprising annotated treaty drafts, plus correspondence between the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, 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. Political Department, the Aden Resident (later Chief Commissioner, then Governor), and the Air Ministry.

The correspondence primarily concerns a proposal by the Resident (Sir Stewart Symes) to replace existing individual tribal treaties with a single instrument, and to cease payments of fixed stipends for general service in favour of payments for services rendered. The proposed change in policy was later abandoned by the Chief Commissioner, Sir Bernard Reilly.

The correspondence also concerns Symes's conference at Lahej, and the pact with the Lahej and other Chiefs to defend against Yemeni incursion into the Aden Protectorate; the deteriorating relationship between the Aden Protectorate and the Imam of San'a; and the suggestion by the Resident that a Chiefs' council should be established along the lines of the tribal councils in Baluchistan, to act as the central authority for the settlement of tribal affairs.

The papers dated 1939 concern the Tripartite Agreement with the Qu'ayti [Qu'ayṭī] and Kathiri Sultans in the Aden Protectorate; the treaty between the British Government and Sultan Salih bin Ghalib Al Qu'ayti [Ṣāliḥ bin Ghālib Al Qu'ayṭī], Sultan of Shihr and Mukalla; and the reconstituted Qu'ayti-Kathari Agreement of 1918.

A copy of the Report by Sir Gilbert Clayton on his Mission to the Imam of San'a (Colonial Office, 1926) is enclosed at folios 156-187.

The following treaty and agreement drafts are found within the file:

  • the agreement [the Lahej Pact] between the Chiefs of tribes and districts within the Aden Protectorate made 6 April 1929 in the presence of the Resident and Commander-in-Chief, ff 119-120;
  • a draft treaty between the Chiefs of Upper Yafa and His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, agreeing to adhere to the purposes of the Lahej Pact of 6 April 1929, ff 84-85, 64-65, and 46;
  • a draft agreement reconstituting the Qu'ayti-Kathiri Agreement of 1918, between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, His Highness the Qu'ayti Sultan of Shihr and Mukalla, and the Kathiri Sultan of Seiyun, on behalf of the Sultans of the Family of 'Abdulla al Kathiri, dated 26 February 1939, ff 19-23;
  • a draft treaty between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, and Sultan Ja'far bin Mansur al Kathiri, Sultan of Seiyun, dated 2 March 1939, ff 17-18;
  • a draft treaty between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, and Sultan Salih bin Ghalib al Qu'ayti, Sultan of Shihr and Mukalla, dated 13 August 1937, ff 3-6.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio one).

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1 file (188 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the folder.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 188; 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. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 15-188; these numbers are also written in pencil and circled, but have been superseded and therefore crossed out. A typescript pagination sequence is present in parallel between ff 156-87.

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