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'Files 61/12 and 61/16 (D 80) Treaty between Bin Saud and H. M. Govt' [172r] (350/408)
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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be deceiving both parties if he consented. If the King decided that he could not
sign the treaty Sir G. Clayton hoped that he would give something in writing to
that effect in order that he might be in a position to show his Government why it had
been impossible to conclude a treaty.
Sir G. Clayton then took his leave, saying that he would now await the final
word from His Majesty.
During the course of the evening the King s advisers had another long
conference with Mr. Antonius, from which it eventually emerged that there was a
certain degree of misunderstanding. It became evident that Ibn Saud's objection
to article 6 was based on the fact that he was determined to sign nothing which might
be interpreted as an admission of any form of capitulatory system; the attitude
which he had taken up hitherto, and was determined to continue, was one of ignoring
the Capitulations altogether and refusing to recognise their existence. In his
endeavour to maintain this attitude, however, he had got himself into the position of
insisting on their actual abolition and was now holding firmly to his point. It was
eventually agreed by the sub-committee that the removal of article 6 and the inclusion
of a supplementary sentence in article 5 might solve the difficulty, and a meeting with
the King was arranged for the next day.
$th Meetiny.
At the ninth meeting, held at the King's house at 8-30 a.m . on the 20th May, the
suggestions put forward by the sub-committee were discussed between His Majesty
and Sir Gilbert Clayton, and final agreement was reached.
It was then agreed that all points had now been settled, that the text of the
treaty in English and Arabic should be put in hand immediately and that the
treaty should be signed on the evening of the same day.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (200 folios)
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The volume is arranged chronologically.
- Physical characteristics
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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- IOR/R/15/1/574
- Title
- 'Files 61/12 and 61/16 (D 80) Treaty between Bin Saud and H. M. Govt'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1ar:1cv, 2r:77v, 77ar:77av, 84r:107v, 109r:124v, 126v:153v, 155r:185v, 185ar:185av, 186r:189r, 191v:193v, 195v:199v, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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