Coll 30/219 'Affairs in Qatar' [‎22r] (44/71)

execution of these measures, and will refrain from pressing for them until some future
time when the need for them shall be manifest, and the effect will not be given
to these articles without full consultation with you and the obtaining of your consent.
And whereas you have represented to me that you and your dependents possess a
good many slaves from of old time, previous to this treaty, and that it would be
difficult if the officials of Government were to interfere between them and their
masters, accordingly I inform you that I recognise how you are placed in regard to
this question, and that supposing that you accord your negroes fair and just treatment
there will not be interference on the part of Government representatives in the matter.
This is what had to be explained, and may God preserve you.
P. Z. COX, Lieutenant-Colonel,
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. .
Dated, Al Bida, November 3, 1916 (Moharram 6, 1335).
APPENDIX B.
Proclamation by Sheikh Abdullah regarding the Arms Traffic.
Be it known to all who may see this:
Whereas it has become known to us that traffic in arms into British India, Persia,
Kuwait, Bahrain, and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. is prohibited ;
I, the undersigned, Abdullah-bin-Jasim-bin-Thani, Shaikh of Qatar, have decided
to do all in my power to assist the British Government in putting a stop to this illegal
traffic, and I hereby declare that from the date of this proclamation, the importation
and sale of arms, cartridges, and all munitions into our territory, and the exportation
of the same to other places, are absolutely prohibited. All arms and ammunition
imported into Qatar territory, or exported therefrom, will in future be liable to seizure
and confiscation. \
That it may not be hidden.
(Signature and seal of) ABDULLAH-BIN-JASIM AL-THANI,
Chief of Qatar.
Dated at Al Bida, Moharram 6, 1335 (November 3, 1916).