ملف ٣٩٣٩/١٩٢٦ الجزء ٣ "المنشورات: تنقيح معاهدات أيتشيسون: قسميّ عدن والجزيرة العربية." [و‎‎١‎٧‎٨] (٤١٠/٣٤٩)

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ADEN— Kaihiri —NO. LXV1—1918.
V. The Abdallah Sultans acknowledge and recognise that the treaty signed
between the British Government and the Qaiti Government in 1888 is binding
upon them, just ae if they had themselves made it, and they agree to conform
to its conditions faithfully. They further recognise that all their negotiations
and correspondence with the British Government shall be carried on through
the Qaiti Sultan Lord of A1 Shahr and A1 Mukalla.
VI. Both parties agree to suppress disorders both now and in future, imme
diately ; they agree to forgive and forget all that has passed and to renounce
severally all vendetta or claims for compensation ; they agree to preserve in future
security on the roads existing within their well-known frontiers, to enforce jus
tice according to the Sheria and respect for the higher authority, to succour the
oppressed and to maintain the common law within the stated boundary.
VII. The aforesaid agree to give each other mutual assistance in case of any
transgression committed by either of the two parties against their subjects or
friends or any persons connected with them, or against a sherif, a wayfarer or
any defenceless person. They agree mutually to defend life and property, as
well as their followers and subjects and any who seek their hospitality, as long
as the boundaries named shall endure; they further agree to treat them with
the same justice and equity that they show towards their friends.
VIII. The aforesaid agree that absolute commercial freedom shall prevail,
and that tithes shall be collected to the amount fixed from all persons impartially
who are subjects of the aforenamed Sultans.
IX. If either of the aforenamed Sultans desires to visit the other, he must
give notice of his intention, so that fitting preparations may be made to receive
him ; and in no case soever must the number of the soldiers exceed 50, so as to
avoid the occurrence of brawls between the soldiers.
X. The Qaiti Sultans and those of the Kathiri family alike agree to give mu
tual assistance in so far as in them lies in any organisation which is directed to
the promotion of the well-being and prosperity of the Hadramaut.
XI. In order to promote the acceptance of the aforesaid conditions between
the Sultan of Shahr and Mukalla and the Sultans of the family of Abdallah of
the Kathiri family, the British Government shall endeavour to settle all differ
ences arising in future between the aforesaid, from the date of the signature of
this treaty through the intermediary of the Governor of Aden.
Al Mansur bin Ghalib bin Abdabla al
Kathiri.
Muhsin bin Ghalib bin Muhsin bin Ahmid
bin Abdalla Ghalib bin Awad.
Witnesses :
Hussein bin Hamid al Mahdad.
Salim bin Gaafar bin Talib.
^asir bin Omar bin Talib.