File 2902/1916 ‘Treaties and Engagements between the British Government and the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’ [‎184r] (378/448)

friendly Arabs and the British at the time when such plunder and piracy shall
occur.
Article 8 .
The putting men to death after they have given up their arms is an act of
piracy and not of acknowledged war; and if any tribe shall put to death any
persons, either Muhammadans or others, after they have given up their arms,
such tribe shall be held to have broken the peace; and the friendly Arabs shall
act against them in conjunction with the British, and, God willing, the war
against them shall not cease until the surrender of those who performed the act
and of those who ordered it.
Article 9.
The carrying off of the slaves, men, women, or children from the coasts of
Africa or elsewhere, and the transporting them in vessels, is plunder and piracy
and the friendly Arabs shall do nothing of this nature.
Article 10.
The vessels of the friendly Arabs, bearing their flag above described, shall
enter into all the British ports and into the ports of the allies of the British
so far as they shall be able to effect it; and they shall buy and sell therein, and
if any shall attack them the British Government shall take notice of it.
Article 11.
These conditions aforesaid shall be common to all tribes and persons, who
shall hereafter adhere thereto in the same manner as to those who adhere to
them at the time present. End of the Articles.
Signed at Shargah by the Vakeel on the part of the Shaikhs Suleiman bin
Ahmed & and Abdulla bin Ahmed, in his quality of Vakeel to the Shaikhs afore
said, on Saturday, the twentieth of the month of Rubee-oos-Sanee in the year
of the Hegira one thousand two hundred and thirty-five, corresponding to the
5th of Eebruary 1820.
(Sd.) STUD ABDOOL JALIL BIN SYIJD YAS,
Vakeel of Shaikh Suleiman bin Ahmed and
Shaikh Abdulla bin Ahmed of the family of
Khalifah, Shaikhs of Bahrain*
Signed at Ras-ool-Kheimeh at the
time of issue by
(Sd.) W. GRANT KEIR, Major-
General.
(Jj S 1
v ‘ Signed and accepted by Suleiman bin
Ahmad, of the house of Khalifah, at
Bahrain, on the 9th of Jamadi-ool-
Awal in the year of the Hegira ore
thousand two hundred and thirty-five,
corresponding to the 23rd Eebruary
1820.
(L. S).
Signed and accepted by Abdulla
bin Ahmed of the house of Kha
lifah, at Bahrain, on the 9th of
Jamadi-ool-Awal in the year of
the Hegira one thousand two
hundred and thirty-five, corre
sponding to the twenty-third of
Eebruary 1820.
(L. S.)