Coll 7/33 'Saudi Arabia: regulations concerning the importation and possession of arms' [7r] (13/96)
The record is made up of 1 file (46 folios). It was created in 24 Jul 1931-13 Aug 1936. It was written in English. 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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the offenders will have the weapons confiscated and will
receive a warning for a first offence, and imprisonment for
subsequent offences.
These regulations have now reached the outlying
districts and are causing widespread discontent.
Information from Wejh indicates that the inhabitants arc
hiding their arms in order to evade handing them over.
There is also excitement amongst the people of Tebuk and
the surrounding villages, and much talk of forcible
resistance to Government officials who may attempt to give
effect to the regulations.
Whatever the outcome may be there is every
probability that the enforcement of the arms prohibition
will cause the Government a considerable amount of trouble.
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The file concerns regulations regarding the prohibition of the import, sale, carrying and possession of arms in the Hejaz kingdom, and later the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The regulations were all published in the Saudi newspaper Umm al Qura [Umm al-Qurá], and consist of the following: a high decree published 15 May 1931 (folios 43-45); a high order sanctioned by the Legislative Assembly, 8 Safar 1352 [2 June 1933] (folios 39-40); and a regulation issued by Ibn Sa'ūd ['Abd al-Raḥmān bin 'Abd al-'Azīz bin Fayṣal Āl Sa'ūd] on 3 Shabān 1354 [31 October 1935] (folios 29-34).
The file also includes correspondence between HM Minister at Jedda (Andrew Ryan), the Foreign Office, 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven Fowle), the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch), the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Kuwait (Captain Gerald Simpson Hillairet de Gaury), and the High Commissioner for Trans-Jordan (Arthur Wauchope), discussing: the impact of the regulations on tribesmen from Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan , Kuwait and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ; the difficulties of enforcing the regulations in the hinterlands; and concerns that Ibn Sa'ūd intended to use the regulations to impose his influence on tribes who moved into Saudi limits from Qatar and Abu Dhabi.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references found in the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 2).
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- 1 file (46 folios)
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The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 48; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Coll 7/33 'Saudi Arabia: regulations concerning the importation and possession of arms'
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- front, front-i, 2r:28v, 35r:38v, 41r:42v, 46r:47v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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