"ملف مقيمية بوشهر 14/163 I، شؤون عجمان، ٢٦ أكتوبر ١٩١٠-٢٧ وأغسطس ١٩٢١" [و‎‎٢‎٣‎٣] (٥٣٤/٤٩٦)

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freed by us will be safe. The tearing up of this certificate
was thus the first of the present offences coraraitted by the i
Shaikh,
4, As I wished to hear what the Shaikh had to say about
the natter I went to Ajman, in n.I.M.S, ,, Lawrence ,, which was
flying the Jiesident's flag. Shaikh Humaid however did not
visit the ship although I waited for sometime and the ship
went quite close in shore at higji water, and as^iad not much
time Z left without seeing him. It is a rule well-known to
all the Shaikhs of the Trucial ooast, and a custom which has
been in force for very many years that whenever the "Lawrence 11
or one of H.H. Ships flying the Hesident's Flag anchors off
a Trucial ooast port the shaikh has to go off at once to the
ship. Shaikh Humaid^ failure to visit the "Lawrence" was
thus his second offence,
June 1980 tihu- uuaut Jhaikh Humaid became involved
in trouble with one Abdur Hahman of Hairah, the next tort to
the South of Ajman, In fact on the night of the 15th June
1980 when Shaikh Humaid and most of his men were out
Abdur Hahman and some others seized the Ajman ^ort and the
Shaikh could not dislodge him. After a time Shaikh Humaid
asked the Residency Agent at shargah to come and mediate.
Khan Sahib Isa bin Abdul Latif accordingly went to Ajman and
managed to get Abdur Hahman to evacuate the Fort on a safe
conduct.
6. Abdur Kahraan in Indebted to the extent of over ks.
80,000/- to urltiah Uubjeots, and the only hope of recovering
this money is that he should be able to ply his business of
pearling. At first he went to Bahrain but oould not make a
livelihood there being regarded as an interloper, and so he
was allowed to oome back to his village in order to be able
to make enough to satisfy his creditors with annual instal
ments in repayment of their claims.
7. The iJhaikh of A ,Jman and the ahaikh of Shargah who
is