ملف رقم ٦٠٠ لسنة ١٩٠٥ الجزء ٥ "المنطقة الداخلية لعدن: معاهدة مع سلطان بلحاف" [ظ‎‎١‎٥‎٦] (١٥٢/٩٦)

ABDULLA.
Nasir.
Talib. Saleh. AU.
Ahmed.
Abdulla.
Nasir.
Saleh .
Ahmed.
Bubakr.
Hadi. Nasir. Hasan.
Ahmed. Mohsin.
Hnsein .
28. Those italicised are the sole surviving members of the family. Hadi bin
Saleh is, as above stated, non compos mentis and need not be considered a
shareholder. He is maintained by his brothers.
19. The family may be divided into two brances—the descendant of Saleh
bin Nasir and those of Ahmed bin Nasir. Talib and Ali bin Nasir were Saleh’s
blood brothers and upon their death without heirs their shares in the property
devolved upon Saleh bin Nasir. Saleh bin Nasir’s family thus became possessed
of a fths share to Ahmed bin Nasir’s Jth share.
30. From inquiries made there is no doubt that a good many years a»o,
while Mohsin was still a comparative youth, Saleh bin Abdulla gained posses
sions of a J- share of the shares of the other side of the family. This was effected
by two transactions—-(a) the purchase of a ^th share fro n Ahmed and Moh
sin and (6) the acquisition of a ^ths share from Hadi bin Saleh. The first
transaction calls for no special remarks, but the second does. It appears that
Hadi bin Saleh sold his share in the property (a ^th) to the Sultan of Bir Ali
some years ago for a very inadequate pecuniary consideration, and that there
after Saleh bin Abdulla acquired them back from the Sultan of Bir Ali for a
very excessive consideration. He gave up his family’s claims to certain shares
in some lands in the valley of Maifa and in certain three islands off the coast
named A1 Barraka, A1 Salka, and A1 Kaide which are valuable on account of
the guano collected on them which is used mainly for the manuring of tobacco;
and he thereby regained/ur himself Hadi’s r ^.th share in the dues of Balahaf.’
He thus parted with rights of which he was not sole possessor and gained a
share in the dues of Balahaf which originally belonged to the other side of the
family, with whose rights in the islands and the lands of Maifa he bad unautho-
rizedly parted.
31. By this transaction he became possessed of a half share in the original
dues of Balahaf, and it is this share with which he professes to have parted
to the Kayti. But it appears from a document produced by Mohsin bin Saleh
which bears the date June 1902, that Saleh bin Abdulla then made restitution
to Mohsin and his brothers of the Jth share which he had previously acquired
He did this, it is alleged, upon his being pointed out to him that his transaction
in regard to the islands and Maifa lands was so obviously wrong. Saleh bin