"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٦‎٧‎٢] (١٧٨٢/٨١٥)

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connection, that the Shaikhs of Dhayah (or Rams) and Jazirat-al-
Hamra, who no longer enjoy any such distinction, were apparently treated
in 1820 as on an equality with those who still do.
Terms of the dip ,..
Treaty. % ^e first article of the General Treaty of Peace the signatories
bound themselves to ahstain for ever from all plunder and piracy by sea
and land. In the second article plunder and piracy were distinguished
fiom lawful warfare; and plunder and piracy, to whatever nation the
persons attacked might belong, were interdicted under pain of death and
forfeiture of property. The third article prescribed a flag for use by all
Arabs included in the treaty, namely, that known in the British Navy as
White-pieiced-Red ; of this pattern the red centre was understood
to perpetuate the blood-red flag of the Qawasim, the emblem
even at the present day of most maritime Arabs, while the white border
ua ' mbolical of peace. The object of the fourth article was apparently
to make it clear that the British Government entertained no political or
territorial ambitions in the Persian Gulf and would not interfere in
ordinary local disputes. The fifth article, some difficulty in enforcing
which was foreseen by Sir W. Grant Keir himself, contemplated the
introduction of two sets of papers, viz., a " Register " for the identification
)f < veiy \essel by means of measurements, etc., given under the signature
of tht chief, and a " Port Clearance/' also signed by the chief, to certify
t he particulars of the actual voyage on which the vessel might be engao-ed,
both of which were to be produced on the demand of a British or "other "
\essel. rhe object of these provisions was to introduce law and order at
sea and to pievent irresponsible equipages from ranging the Gulf with
impunity. Principally to facilitate execution jf the provisions relating
t) slups papeis the sixth article empowered 2he " pacificated Arabs to
maintain an agent at the British Residency in the Gulf and the British
Go\eihnunt to accredit an envoy to the Arabs, the representative in either
ease to be paid 01 maintained by the party whose interests he represented.
Lhe sexenth article, introduced chiefly in order to make it clear that failure
of oik 01 more signatories to conform to the treaty should not be held to
absolve the others fiom observance of the same, imposed upon the
pacificated Aiabs the duty of co-operating with the British Govern-
to punish plunder and piracy. The eighth article condemned the
ns Qtu imi custom of putting prisoners to death in cold blood
\ 11 ^ 1 wai extermination against those who should in future
| ' e it. The ninth article, which was inserted at the instance of
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