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File 600/1905 Pt 1 'Aden Hinterland: Treaty with Dthala' [‎381r] (23/174)

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The record is made up of 1 item (86 folios). It was created in Feb 1904-Apr 1905. It was written in English and French. 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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Enclosure No. 2.
No. 7811, dated Bombay Castle, the 19th December 1904.
From C. H. A. Hill, Esq., C.I.E., Acting Secretary to the Goyemment of
Bombay m the Political Department,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department.
With reference to Foreign Department letter No. 3510 E.-B., dated the
* No. 19 in Secret E., November 1904, Nos. 6 -21. 17th October 1904,* enclosing a Copy of
t No. is, ibid. a ( ^ es P aj tch No. 45, dated the 23rd Sep-
, ecjj. <» t j* . tember 1904,f from His Majesty’s Secre-
rTvn ^ or l r ^ la, approving of a draft of a revised treaty with the Amir
ol Dthala, I am directed to forward herewith, in triplicate, for ratification by
the ^ 0 I™ nt of India ’ the new treat y which was concluded with the Amir
on the 28th November 1904, and which embodies the modifications suggested
by His Majesty’s Secretary of State. 56
am a ^ same time to enclose extract paragraph 2 of Major-
General Mason’s forwarding letter No. 203, dated the 3rd December 1904
and to request that the Government of India may be moved to sanction as
recommended therein, the issue, free of payment, of 25 rides to the Amir
wherewith to arm 25 out of the fifty men referred to in Article IX of the
treaty.
Extract paragraph 2 of later from the Political Beeident, Aden, to the Secretary to the Govern
ment of Bombay, Political Department, No. 203, dated the 3rd December 1904.
* * * * * * * '*
2 -P n tlle treaty bemg read out to the Amir, he complained that the
proposed stipend of 100 dollars per mensem and the further monthly subsidy
° °^ ars ^ ,^ e maintenance of a force of 50 men were small compared
with the responsibilities to he undertaken by him. He also demurred at first
to the separation of the stipend and the subsidy. Eventually he agreed to the
revised draft treaty as approved by Government, but he pleaded that at least
he should be given the rifles wherewith to arm the fifty m»n, and also two
small cannons. Ihe request for the latter I am not disposed to recommend as
it is not usual for Government to present the Chiefs with cannon. But as to
the rifles, we might perhaps give the Amir half the number required, though
considering the benefits he has reaped by the demarcation of the frontier and
the enhanced stipend and additional subsidy now proposed to be given he
should not expect further assistance from Government. *

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Part 1 of the file relates to the 1905 revision of the treaty with Shaif bin Sef bin Abdul Hadi bin Hasan [Shā’if ibn Sayf al-‘Amirī], Amir of Dthala (also sometimes written Dthali) [al-Ḍāli‘].

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The correspondence discusses a number of matters integral to the new treaty, including:

  • the deployment of a permanent Political Officer in Dthala;
  • the need for an Arab levy to patrol the frontier with Ottoman Turkish territory;
  • increasing the Amir's stipend and granting him a gun salute;
  • relations between the Amir and the Kotaibi tribe.

Folio 382 is the revised treaty, signed 28 November 1905 (ratified 8 February 1905).

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