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File 600/1905 Pt 1 'Aden Hinterland: Treaty with Dthala' [387v] (36/174)
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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is daily deputed by the Senior Medical Officer. The patients are rationed while
in our care at 4 annas per diem. It is impossible to send these cases away with
out treatment. Where will they go ? Humanity and political expediency
demand we shall treat these unfortunates.
I am devoting to this end the Rs. 600 you lately sent me. Everything is
being done on strictly economical lines. Famine and war are responsible for
this Yemeni invasion of our parts.
No. 3177, dated Aden
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
, the 81st May 1905.
Endorsed by Major-General H. M. Mason,
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.
, Aden.
Forwarded with compliments to the Secretary to Government in the Poli*
tical Department, Bombay, in continuation of this office No. 2951, dated the
21st May, for favour of early orders; pending receipt of wdiich the Political
Officer, D’thala, is being instructed to confine expenditure to the lowest possible
limit and to debit the same to the sum allotted to him for
Durbar
A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family).
presents.
No. 8617-E. B., dated Simla, the 25th September 1905.
From—C. Somers Cocks, Esq., Assistant Secretary to the Government of India,
Foreign Department,
To The Hon’blb Mr. S. W. Edgerlet, C.I.E., Chief Secretary to the Government
of Bombay.
I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 4195, dated
the 5th July 1905, recommending—
(1) That a temporary dispensary and hospital be tentatively opened at
D’thala for the treatment of Arab patients, at a cost of Rs. 232 per meusem
or Rs. 928 for a period of four months.
(2) That an expenditure of £30 or Rs. 450 incurred by Captain
H. F. Jacob, the Political Officer at D’thala, in procuring instruments for the
proposed dispensary and hospital be refunded to that officer.
(3) That the measure be considered as purely experimental, and if it is
found that the dispensary is poorly attended, it be discontinued.
2. His Excellency the Governor's proposals are approved, except that the
allowance to the medical officer in charge of the proposed dispensary and hos
pital will be Rs. 50 per mensem, for a period of four months, subject to recon
sideration in the event of it being decide! to keep open the dispensary and
hospital for a further period.
No. ?£I£-E. B., dated the 25th September 1905.
3619 ’ r
Endorsed by the Government of India, Foreign Department.
A copy of the foregoing letter, together with a copy of the letter to which
it is a reply, with enclosures, is forwarded to the Department, for infor
mation.
4
G. C. Pre§#, Sinai*.—No. 892 F. D.—9*10*06. - 44.—H.A.W.
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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‘].
The correspondents include:
- Major-General Pelham James Maitland (later Henry Macan Mason), 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;
- Colonel R A Wahab, Aden Boundary Commissioner;
- Government of India, Foreign Department;
- Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. , Political Department;
- 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. , London;
- Foreign Office, London;
- Major W Merewether, Political Officer at Dthala.
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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