Political No. 15 of 1873, Forwarding a Copy of Papers Regarding an Engagement Concluded with the Foodhlee Chief for Removing Transit Dues from the Road Passing through his Territory to Aden [‎141v] (30/34)

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ABTXCXiE II.
Maior General Charles William Tremenheere, C.B., 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.
at Aden, on behalf of the high British Government, agrees to pay to Sultan
Haidara bin Ahmed bin Abdullah, the Poodhlee, and to his successor the monthly
sum of eighty (80) dollars, in consideration of the abolition of the transit dues
as aforesaid.
Article III.
This agreement is distinct from, and in addition to, the engagement which
was concluded with the Sultan of the Poodhlee tribe on the 27th day of May
1867, and the stipend as aforesaid, that is to say, the sum of eighty dollars to
he paid monthly, is oyer and above the stipend of one hundred dollars which
is at this present time paid monthly by the high British Government to the
Sultan of the Poodhlee tribe, and this engagement is to come into force and to
have effect from this date of writing, that is to say, the 6th day of May 1872,
answering to the 28th day of Safar in the year of the Hijra 1289.
(Sd.) M. Schneider, Brigadier-General,
Bolitical Resident, Aden.
On behalf of Major-General G. W. Tremenheere, C.B.
(Sd.) (Persian characters.)
(Sd.) NOBTHBBOOK.
Batified by His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General of India at
Calcutta on the eighteenth day of December 1872.
(Sd.) C. U. Aitchison,
Secretary to the Government oj India.
Enclosure No. 4.
No. 6895, dated Bombay Castle, 25th November 1872.
From Secretary to the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. ,
To Secietary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, with the G. G.
transmi^herewitSortulZisrion totb r^ 61 ^ 14tll ul j > i » 10 ’ 1 am directed to
from the Resident at Ad?n No 24fi «q7 Ffb copy of a letter
refusal of Sultan Ahmed Inn A H 'fi 24 v 8 ?/’ ! l 12th 1 J 1 *- anfc ’ re P°riing the
eluded in May last. b Ah ’ the Yaffaee > to cari T out the Convention con-
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marginally cited, I have the horn
report that Sultan Ahmed bin Ali,
Yaffaee, persistently refuses to cam
the Convention concluded in Mav
on his behalf and with his con sen I
his eldest son through the Resident