File 87/1926 Pt 2 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Relations with H.M.G. Revision of Treaty.' [‎364r] (415/840)

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Tr i J.82Q the Ruler of Bahrein subscribed to the general
Treaty with the Arab Chiefs of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , which
prescribed abstention from plunder and piracy by land
and sea, from slave traffic, and from inter-tribal
war, and peace with the British Government. (The
adherence of Bahrein to this treaty gave the British
Government a formal right to intervene^ as it did in
1863 between Bahrein,' Abu Dhabi and Katar, and
again in 1867-9)
(b) In 1847 the Sheikh of Bahrein subscribed to an
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engagement for the abolition of slave trade in his
ports and for the submission of Bahreini vessels to
search by British cruisers for slaves, and to seizure
if guilty,, and in 1856 signed a further engagement
for the better suppression of the slave trade.
(c) Qn the 31 st May 1861 Sheikh Mahomed bin Khalifa
signed on behalf of himself and his heirs and successors
a "perpetual treaty of peane and friendship with the
British Government ,,
In Article 2 he agreed to abstain from maritime
aggression, war, piracy and slavery by sea "so long .
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as I receive the support of the British Government in
the maintenance of the security of my own possessions
against similar aggressions directed against them
by the Chiefs and tribes of this Gulf.**
In Article 3 he undertook to refer to the arbitration
Df the Polioical Resident cases of aggression by sea_
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on Bahrein or Bahreinis and to refrain from
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retaliation