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File 600/1905 Pt 1 'Aden Hinterland: Treaty with Dthala' [‎441v] (144/174)

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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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, i vcrim r»nv him any revenue whatever. But he is the acknow-
the only people who p y * country, comprising the territory of the
ledged Chief of a Dakk am , and Shairi tribes; also the
Azraki, Mehrabi, Ahmadi, “"“uvely as the A1 Viud, which includes the
group of small clans known c ^ ^7^ a considerable force at Dthala, and
troublesome Kotaibi. A o f u pse people will keep quiet. But when the
our money fl-^’t. '^^aS’offiTeA escort, or pUibly withdrawn al-
troops are reduced to the Fo itical umc ^ old ’ intrig ^ es rsviTed . The Amir
together, old dissensions wi ’ we u as firmness in dealing with his
sat?. g'™—
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mensem. ^ pnWerable portion of the difficulties the
4. It is my belief tha y ^ ^ inability to pay them
Amir has ^ with eertai^f to do so, I thfnk it highly
. small sums fiom time m • have made good their footing m various
probable that the Tur l f| th trou bi e W e have lately had with the
Cm silk”;”5 •*££& .o lev, J«.'. on tl» J-* ~t b„.
Sen if the Amir could have made him a small monthly payment.
5 T would also venture to observe that within the last four months three
5. 1 would also pu f c Yaffai have been approved, and a
treaties with the v , • t been conc luded and submitted for ratifi-
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and Muflahai. I consider him as the equal in rank of the Nakibs of the Mausate,
and he has certainly more difficulty m keeping up his position.
fi T ask therefore, for an increased stipend for the Amir, of equal amoun
t, that Lnted to Mausata, and proposed for Sultan Kahtan as a part of
our policv on t his frontier. This step is, in my opinion, a most important means
of maintaining peace in the Amiri country, and closing the door to iurkish
tetXi^ I should also be glad to see the Amir honoured with a salute of
seven U guns to mark our appreciation of his behaviour, and the good sense and
self-restraint he has exhibited during the past two years The grant rf a salu
wild also be politic as raising him in the eyes o thc neigdiboi iang Yemen
Arabs, and as vindicating his position vis a vis with the luiks, wh
sistently endeavoured to belittle it in every way possible.
7. I venture, with the utmost respect, to strongly deprecate P 0st P 0 ^ n ;
of the consideration of the increase to the Amirs stipend u^il the general
examination of our needs and responsibilities, after the demarcatio •
This would delay the matter for a year, perhaps two and in the meantime J
difficulties might, and probably will, arise which the present bestowal ot a
reasonable subsidy on the Amir would obviate. #
The proposed grant of a salute maybe deferred for discussion till alter
the conclusion of the demarcation, if Government so please, but no , >
the stipend. . .
8. I would point out that the Amiri frontier may be regarded as settle
already, except in detail, and I submit that no awkward prece en
created by my proposal. I append a table showing the stipends n °Y /?
all the Chiefs in the Aden Protectorate. The Amir is at the very bottom ot
the list. The Chiefs, who, together with the Amir of Dthaia, stand in t
nearest relation to us, are the Haushabi, the Abdali, and the la in
stipends are already very much higher than that which I have propose .
Amir, the lowest being nearly three times as great. ^ Even the lit e
Sultan gets 40 dollars a month and the Subaihi sections 25 to 4U doi ars,

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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:

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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