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Aden Delimitation: The History of the Question and the Present Situation as Regards the Territories of the Amir of Dthali [‎18r] (5/14)

The record is made up of 1 file (7 folios). It was created in Jul 1902. 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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Aden Delimitation.
I hr History of the Question, and the present situation as regards the
Territories of the Amir of Dthali.
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x» •i.* i. s'* _ , .., * . imc jjumliuu latven up ov tne
Bntish Government with regard to the tribes in the neighbourhood of Aden
is contamcd m Lord Derby s Despatch, of 30th April 1874, to the Charge
d Affaires at Constantinople. It was therein declared that Great Britain
will not permit any interference on the part of Turkish officials with the
Stipendary Chiefs, the “Sultans of Lahedj and Dhali, Alowee and
Jiaushabee, being specially mentioned.
H.C.,
5601/74.
2 It will be remembered that this declaration was called forth by the
continued interference of the Turkish officials in Yemen with the tribes and
Chiefs who had relations with the Aden Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. . The Porte put forward
clanns to the whole of Arabia, whereupon Her Majesty’s Government pointed
out (Lord Granville s Despatches of 30th January and 15th May 1873) 2 974/73.
^ i ^ t 200 y ears > Yem en had been under the rule of independent 3995/73.
Arab vAuefs, adding that it was the wish of Her Majesty’s Government that
the independence of those Chiefs in the vicinity of Aden should be respected ;
and that they could not view with indifference any attempt to subvert their
authoiity. ^sinii tribes were named with whom treaty engagements had
been entered into without reference to the Porte, and it was stated that the
British Government felt free to make fresh engagements if they thought it
expedient. J
These nine tribes were :—
1. The Abdali.
2. The Padthli.
3. The Akrabi.
4. The Haushabi.
5. The Alawi.
6. The Ameer {sic).
7. The Subaihi.
8. The Yaffai.
9. The Aulaki.
3. It ma} be w r ell to note that while at this time we had engagements
with the above tribes, we had not protective treaties with any one of them.
The first protective treaties were not made till a much later date (1888),
and such treaties have only been concluded with a few' of the nine tribes!
Some of the nearest and most important of our stipendaries, e.g., the Sultan
of Lahej, have no protective treaties.
The Despatch from the Government of India naming the tribes, distinctly
states that treaties had been concluded with all of them, but, as a
matter of fact, no separate treaty had at that time been entered into with Secref’of
the Amir of Dthali. The Amiri are, however, included in the agreement i it^April
entered into with the Sultan of Lahej, formerly of Aden, six months after 1873.
the capture of the place, in wdiich the British Government undertook to pay
the stipend hitherto paid by the Sultan to the Fadhli, Yaffai, Haushabi, and
“Ameer” tribes. The Amir of Dthali has consequently been a stipendary
of the British from the first. This appears to be a point of some
importance.
4. The result of Lord Granville’s Despatch was that orders were sent by
the Ottoman Government to the Governor-General of Yemen, directing him
to abstain from all interference with the independent tribes, and holding him
S. 28. A

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The file consists of correspondence between William Lee-Warner, 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. , Secretary to the Political and Secret Department, and Pelham James Maitland, Resident at Aden, concerning Aden delimitation and accusations of Turkish encroachments, dated 28-29 July 1902. An additional note by Maitland gives his own views on the boundary question, provides a history of the question, and covers the present situation as regards the territories of the Amir of Dthali [Aḑ Ḑāli‘].

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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 16, and terminates at f 22, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 21-27; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are circled.

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