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File 600/1905 Pt 1 'Aden Hinterland: Treaty with Dthala' [411r] (83/174)
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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No. 130 of 1904.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT.
SECRET.
External.
To
The Right Hon’ble St. JOHN BRODRICK,
His Majesty's Secretary of State for India.
Sir,
Simla, the 21st July 1904.
We have the honour to address you regarding the revision of our treaty
engagements with the Amir of Dthala. The only agreement which we at
present hold from this Chief is that concluded on the 1st of May 1881, and the
stipend of 100 dollars per annum which the Chief at present enjoys is less
than that allowed to any other Chief in the Aden Hinterland.
2. In January 1904, in reply to a letter from Major-General Maitland
urging the grant to the Amir of an increased stipend and the revision of
posals for a new Convention and, as a temporary measure, to show to the Amir
special favour in the form of
Durbar
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presents up to a maximum value of 50
dollars a month less his ordinary stipend. We now have the honour to enclose,
for your information, a copy of the correspondence on the subject, and, in
view of the importance of certain of the issues which have been raised, we
think it right to refer the matter for the orders of His Majesty’s Government
before arriving at a final decision.
3. With his letter of the 2nd April,f General Maitland has forwarded
of Article 5 are similar to those adopted in the treaties concluded with other
Chiefs of the Aden Protectorate, and call for no special comment. The latter
half of Article 5 binds the Chief to maintain at Sulek or other place or
places a post of 50 men. Articles 6 and 7 impose upon the Amir the
international obligations contemplated in your Secret despatch No. 15, dated
the 1st April 1904, requiring him to maintain the boundary and to protect
the pillars which have been fixed by the British and Turkish Commissioners,
to preserve order within his territories, and to restrain his subjects from
disturbances beyond his frontier. In consideration of all these undertakings,
the Resident proposes to pay to the Amir a stipend of 100 dollars monthly.
4. We consider the draft treaty to be suitable, and the only modification
which we would introduce is in respect of the force which the Chief should
maintain. Instead of allocating this body of men to any particular trade
route, we would require the Chief to keep it up as the nucleus of a force
to be used, where and when required, in accordance with the Resident s
advice, for the maintenance of the Amir’s position and the fulfilment
of his various obligations under the treaty, and we would grant an additional
subsidy of 100 dollars per mensem to be specially ear-marked for this purpose.
We consider this arrangement preferable to that proposed by the Bombay
Government of simply increasing the stipend of 100 dollars pci mensem which
* Enclosure No. 2.
his treaty engagements, we authorised*
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.
to submit pro-
f Sub-enclosure to enclosure No. 7.
the draft of a new agreement with the
Amir. Articles 1 to 4 and the first half
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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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