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None tlie less there was an essential difference
between the subsequent relations of the tribe to
Sir Stratford Turkey and Persia respectively for, while con-
Aprim istJ 0 ’ stantly endeavouring to establish its indepen
dence, from the moment it threw off completely
the yoke of the former Power it appears to have
become more or less subject to Persia. More-
Captain Kemball over, since this time the Chaab used the Persian
to Her Majesty’s ^ though it was thought that this might
No. 378, perhaps be the particular consequence of their
August 19, 1843. creed ag slliallSj and possibly not an acknowledg
ment of subjection to Persia.
Major Rawlinson’s Jt was about this time that Sheikh Salman
Jamiary n G, U i84 0 4. removed the seat of his government to 1 ellahieh,
within the well-established frontier of the Persian
province of Pars. About four-fifths of the
extent of country now occupied by the Chaab
was unquestionably Persian territory, and the
liability of the tribe to pay the Persian Crown
the revenues of these lands, if that Power were
in a condition to assert its rights, does not appear
ever to have been questioned. Major Pawlinson
infers, from the increased connection which was
observable between the Persian Government and
the Chaab subsequently to the foundation of
Pellahieh, that the distinction between liability
for payment of rent, as tenants of the soil, and of
a fixed tribute, as subjects, was gradually lost
sight of, and that the tribe, residing for the most
part in Persian territory, governed by a chief
whose capital w T as likewise in Persian territory,
and subjected almost yearly to demands for
revenue to the Persian Crown, came to be re
garded as Turkish colonists who had immigrated
to the Persian territory, and, by a continued
residence of many years, had naturalised them-
Major Rawlinson’s
Memorandum of
January 6 , 1844.
selves as Persian subjects.
The arguments of the Turkish Government
in favour of an uninterrupted claim to the
allegiance of the Chaab were simply these: that
Turkey had never made any formal renunciation
of her rights; that the Chaab, notwithstanding
the removal of the seat of government to
Pellahieh, continued to hold lands upon the
Haffar and the Shatt-el-Arab subject to Turkey,
and even to pay the revenue of those lands to the
Governor of Pussorah ; that the fees formerly
payable by the tribe to Turkey for other districts
were merely withheld because those districts
had become desert; and that a robe of office was
still furnished by Turkey to the Sheikh of the
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