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'Files 61/12 and 61/16 (D 80) Treaty between Bin Saud and H. M. Govt' [‎132r] (270/408)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (200 folios). It was created in 19 Apr 1923-10 Mar 1930. 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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in respect of which His Britannic majesty has accented a
mandate on behalf of th© L#a ue of Nations" need not be
retained in the first par- Tr- h of thia Article, Their
effect was merely to increase the obii rations of Uis ajenty's
Covernm-pnt. Insofar as their insertion had been desi ned
to sec^xre imolicit reco mti')n by l )n ' wj ' of t le
position of Hie ajeety* s Joverrmient in Palestine, irarm-
Jordan and Iraq, this object would be sufficiently attained
by the I xi* s used in the succeeding article.
This Article lb drafted wae accented, subject to
the inelueion of the words "all persons en joy in protection
of His Britannic Hajeety^ after "His Britannic I ajesty" in
the first sentence. It was alwo ^^reed (1) that 1 r.Antonius
mi ^t be e?npowered to redraft Articles Y and VI in a form
th? t would f veil its e ' heir translation into Arabic (the
sense of the two articles being of course retained); ^md (2)
thn.t the descrioti^n of the principles to oYem the settlement
of cases in Hejafi or Nejdi and British Courts, respectively,
via; those of u justice and equity k ' shou > be t it- seine iti
both parts of .he xticle*
The question ® is then raised whether 1 is Majesty's
Government should tgre'e to abandon the capitulations
altogether . fr. Antonius explained th .t Ibn -aud had, on
his connuest of the iiejaa, issued a ProclsftEtioii stiting
that he owe a£i a conqueror and did not consider himself
bound by the coumtmentE of Vds predecessors; th t he
would tolerate no form of external interference, vrhether
by capitulation or otherwise. Ibn oaui wou. not f-'k ds
Majesty's ^overmmt to renoimce the capitulation# laMiSE
Yerois as he did not recognise that he capi tu tionc exieted*

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The volume mostly consists of correspondence concerning the relations between Britain and Ibn Sa'ud, with a specific focus on the negotiation and signing of the Treaty of Jeddah. The majority of the correspondence is between the British Legation in Jeddah and the Foreign and Colonial Offices in London. Copies were often sent to the Political 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. in Bushire, the Political Agencies in Bahrain and Kuwait, and the High Commissioners in Baghdad and Jerusalem.

The volume follows the evolution of the Treaty:

  • Britain's initial reluctance, due to their official friendship with King Hussein, to engage with the issue prior to Ibn Sa'ud's conquest of the Hejaz;
  • how this event then gave cause for the Bahra and Hadda agreements of November 1925;
  • the negotiations between Ibn Sa'ud and Gilbert Clayton in early 1927 leading to the signing of the Treaty of Jeddah on 20 May that year and its ratification in August.

At the end of the volume (folios192-196) is Clayton's final report on his mission to the Hejaz and includes a copy of the Treaty.

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1 volume (200 folios)
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The volume is arranged chronologically.

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Foliation: the sequence starts on the first folio and continues through to the inside back cover. The numbering is written in pencil, circled and written in the top right corner of each folio. There are the following irregularities: ff 1A-1C; f 185A; ff 78-84 are those of a booklet, stored in an envelope (f 77A). There is a second sequence that is also written in pencil but is not circled and is inconsistent.

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