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Coll 1/12 'Policy in the Protectorate: treaty with the Upper Yafai Chiefs, and other Chiefs in the Protectorate' [‎173v] (346/376)

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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ANNEXURE 7.
Draft Presented to the Imam on the 10th February, 192b,
WHEREAS there are certain outstanding matters which
require settlement between His Britannic Majesty’s Government
and the Government of His Highness the Imam of Yemen, and
WHEREAS His Highness the Imam of Yemen advances^^
claims which are held by His Britannic Majesty’s Government
to be incompatible with their present position and obligations in
the Aden Protectorate,
The two High Contracting Parties
Being desirous of establishing friendly relations between the
two countries have mutually agreed as follows:
Article 1.
The settlement of the claims advanced by His Highness the
Imam with reference to the southern boundary of the Yemen and
to rights over certain territories lying within the present boun
dary of the Aden Protectorate is deferred and shall hereafter
form the subject of friendly negotiation between the two parties
with a view to arriving at a final settlement before the expiry
of the duration of the present Agreement; it being understood
that nothing in this Agreement shall be taken as meaning that
His Highness the Imam renounces his claims or that His
Britannic Majesty’s Government admit them.
Article 2.
His Britannic Majesty’s Government acknowledge the absolute
independence of His Highness the Imam in all matters, political
and administrative, external and internal; while His Highness
the Imam recognises the Protectorate Treaties between His
Britannic Majesty’s Government and the Chiefs and tribes of the
Aden Protectorate (as shown in the list at the foot of this Article)
and undertakes to prevent, by all the means at his disposal, any
incursion by armed forces across the frontier which was demar
cated in 1903, 1904 and 1905, and ratified in 1914, by the British
and Turkish Governments. His Highness the Imam also under
takes to prevent any interference, of whatsoever kind, on the
part of his subjects with the peoples inhabiting the Aden side of
that frontier.
(The list of Chiefs and tribes is identical with that given in
the margin of Article 3 of the Draft of August, 1924*.)
Article 3.
In order to render possible the friendly negotiations envisaged
in Article 1 of the present Agreement. His Highness the Imam
undertakes, within six months of the date of signature of the
present Agreement, to withdraw all his officials and forces of
whatsoever kind from those territories lying on the Aden side of
the boundary, which are at present in his occupation.
Article 4.
Same as Article 2 of the Draft of August, 1924*.
Annexure 2.

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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)
Arrangement

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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