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File 600/1905 Pt 1 'Aden Hinterland: Treaty with Dthala' [442r] (145/174)
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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to four times as much as the Amir’s present stipend. The Alawi Sheikh, who
is quite a small Chief, far inferior to the Amir iu rank and nosition, also
toik®
receives three times as much. The Amir’s subsidy is so much below the
ordinary level that, so far as the fear of creating a precedent is concerned, it
may very safely he raised to the sum which I have proposed, viz., 50 dollars
per mensem.
9. If the grant of an increased stipend he approved, the Amir should, in
return, accept a protectorate treaty. I think it is very desirable that a treaty
of this nature should be concluded with him as soon as possible. His present
agreement with the British Government relates only to the protection of the
roads, and he is not at the present moment in any way hound to maintain the
frontier we are obtaining for him at so great a cost.
10. Finally, with regard to the observation in paragraph 3 of Mr. Bussell’s
letter No. 2114 E.-A., dated 7th September 1903, I would explain that though
the Amir can have no legitimate grievance on account of the fact that Kataba
and other outlying districts will not he included in his territories, yet the
Boundary Commission formally proposed to claim these places in his behalf,
and this seems to have become known to him. When I arrived here in
August, he was fully persuaded that they would sooner or later he handed over.
I have endeavoured to disabuse him of this idea, but I have no doubt that
when Kataha and Yubi and Haiki are definitely left to the Turks, he will feel
disappointment, which may not he the less acute because it is unreasonable.
Government does not, perhaps, always realise how different is our position with
regard to the Chiefs in this country from what obtains in India, and how
dependent we are, and always must he, on their good-will and co-operation in
carrying out any policy whatever, even although it may he altogether for their
benefit. An increase to the Amir’s stipend is, as I have endeavoured ^ to show,
very desirable on the ground of general policy, and perhaps of justice, and if
this be admitted, it can hardly he inadvisable to bestow the gift at a time it
will produce the greatest effect.
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Table showing stipends now paid to Chiefs in the Aden Protectorate (26th October 1903).
Dollars.
Abdali (Sultan of Lahej)
Fadthli
Haushabi
Lower Yaffai
Sultan Kahtan (Upper Yaffai)
Mausata (Upper Yaffai section)
Akrabi
Kishra and Socotra
Dthubi (Upper Yaffai section)
Muflahai ( ditto )
Rajai (Subaihi section)
Lower Aulaki
Shehr and Mokalla
Wahidi of Balahaf
Wahidi of Bir Ali
Atiffi (Subaihi section)
Makhdumi (Subaihi section)
Alawi
Barhimi (Subaihi section)
Mausuri ( ditto )
Irka
Haura
Amir of Dthala
1,641* per mensem.
180
136
50
50f
50
40
40
40
40
40 „
30
30
30
30
30
30
25 ,,
25
25
15
15
8£
' ~ „,, , ,, ...onapin but he sets in addition 600 for
• The original stipend of the Sultan of Lahej was 541 dollars per mens m, g
Sheikh Othman, and 500 compensation for reTenue derived from salt.
t Treaty not yet ratified.
Foreign Office Press—No. 206 —7-1-04 54 .
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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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