ملف ١٩٢٦/٣٩٣٩ الجزء ٦ "تنقيح معاهدات أيتشيسون. قسم الخليج الفارسي." [و‎‎٥‎٩‎١] (٨١٨/٦١٧)

PERSIAN GULF—APPENDIX NO. 1—1849
* APPENDIX No. I.
12 and 13 Victoria, JOap. LXXXIV.
Ad Act for carrying into effect Engagements between Her Majesty and
certain Arabian Chiefs in the Persian Gulf for the more effectual suppre-
eion of the Slave-trade, dated 1st August 1849.
Whereas on the thirtieth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty-seven, an Engagement was concluded between Major
8. Hennell, the Resident in the Persian Gulf, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Sultan bin Sugger,
Shaik of Ras-ool-Kheimah and Shargah in the Persian Gulf, the Chief of the Joasmee
Arabs, whereby it was agreed as follows :—
“I, Shaik Sultan bin Sugger, Chief of the Joasmee tribe, with a view to
strengthen the bonds of friendship existing between me and the British Govern
ment, do hereby engage to prohibit the exportation of slaves from the coasts of
Africa and elsewhere on board of my vessels and those belonging to my subjects
or dependents, such prohibition to take effect from the 1st day of Mohurrum
A. H. 1264 (or 10th December A.D. 1847).
“ And I do further consent that whenever the cruizers of the British Govern
ment fall in with any of my vessels, or those belonging to my subjects or depen
dents, suspected of being engaged in the slave-trade, they may detain and search
them ; and in case of their finding that any of the vessels aforesaid have violated
this engagement, by the exportation of slaves from the coasts of Africa or else
where, upon any pretext whatsoever, they (the Government cruisers) shall seize
and confiscate the same.*'
And whereas on the said thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred
and forty-seven, an engagement was also concluded between Major S. Hennell,
the Resident in the Persian Gulf, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of the United
Kingdom of Great Britian and Ireland, and Muktoom bin Buttye, Shaik of Debaye
whereby it was agreed as follows :— '»
“ I, Muktoom bin Buttye, Shaik of Debaye, with the view to strengthen the
bonds of friendship existing between me and the British Government, do hereby
engage to prohibit the exportation of slaves from the cosats of Africa and else
where on board of my vessels and those belonging to my subjects or dependants,
such prohibition to take effect from the 1st day of Mohurrum A. H. 1264 (or 10th
December A. D. 1847).
“ And I do further consent that whenever the cruisers of the British Go\ern-
ment fall in with any of my vessels, or those belonging to my subjects or depen-
Repealed.