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Coll 1/12 'Policy in the Protectorate: treaty with the Upper Yafai Chiefs, and other Chiefs in the Protectorate' [184v] (368/376)
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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His Majesty’s Government should take the responsibility of con
trolling and punishing their offending tribes. The argument was
a fair one and I agreed to consider the framing of a clause which
would meet the case.
46. Finally, we discussed the question of the language in which
the Treaty should be concluded, and I proposed that it should
be drawn up in parallel columns of English and Arabic an'^s*
that His Highness should sign below the Arabic column, Mr. "
Antonius adding a certificate to the effect that the two texts were,
as far as it was possible to make them, identical. The Imam
appeared satisfied with this arrangement, and the meeting then
came to an end, having lasted over three hours.
Sixteenth Meeting.
47. The sixteenth meeting was held at the Palace at 9 a.m. on
Thursday, the 18th February. I was accompanied by Mr.
Antonius, while the Imam had Raghib Bey in attendance. In
the interval between the fifteenth meeting and this, I had pre
sented His Highness with a fresh draft of the proposed Treaty
(see Annexure 9). The conversation which took place at this
meeting is fully summarised in paragraphs 30-32 of my report.
Seventeenth Meeting.
48. The seventeenth meeting was held at the Palace at 9 a.m. on
Saturday, the 20 th February, with the same attendance as pre
viously. A full account of the conversation which took place
will be found in paragraphs 34-36 of my report.
Eighteenth Meeting.
49. The eighteenth and last meeting was held at the Palace
at 10 a.m. on Sunday, the 21st February, when I went to take
formal leave of the Imam. I was accompanied by Mr. Antonius,
and was received by His Highness with even greater ceremony
than on my arrival. Throughout the interview, the Imam main
tained an attitude of the greatest cordiality, and expressed the
hope that negotiations would be resumed eventually. A sum
mary of the interview will be found in paragraph 37 of my
report.
C.8875/26.
No. 2.
6 zV Gilbert Clayton, K.C .M.G., &c., to the Secretary of State for
the Colonies.
Sir London, 6 th April, 1926.
I have the honour in connection with my report, dated 6 th
April, 1926,* on the results of my recent mission to San‘a, to sub
mit a memorandum on the subject of the Aden Protectorate.
The memorandum was drawn up at a time when I thought it
possible that an agreement with the Imam might be concluded,
but failure to achieve that agreement has not altered my views
in regard to the general situation.
J
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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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- front, front-i, 2r:2v, 7r:16v, 24r:45v, 47r:63v, 66r:83v, 87r:118v, 121r:187v, back-i, back
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