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V.— Commission de Delimitation.
Article 17.
Les deux Gouvernements sont d'accord pour nommer, dans le plus bref ddlai, des
commissaires qui auront k appliquer sur le terrain les limites ^tablies par les articles 5, 7
et 10 de cette convention en en dressant un plan ddtaille et un proc^s-verbal explicatif.
Le plan et le proc^s-verbal susdnonc^s, une fois dument dresses et signds par lee
commissaires respectifs, seront consideres comme partie intdgrante de la presente
convention.
Article 18.
La prdsente convention sera ratifide et les instruments de ratification en seront
^changes h, Londres aussit^t que faire se pourra, et au plus tard dans un delai de
trois mois.
En foi de quoi, les Pldnipotentiaires respectifs ont signd la presente convention et y
out apposd leurs cachets.
Fait k Londree, en double original, le ,1913.
Parafee ad referendum.
Annexe I.
Agreement of January 23, 1899, with Sheikh of Koweit.
(Translation.)
Praise be to God alone {lit. in the name of God Almighty) (" Bissim Illah Ta'alah Shanuho").
THE object of writing this lawful and honourable bond is, that it is hereby
covenanted and agreed between Lieutenant-Colonel Malcolm John Meade, LS.C.,
Her Britannic Majesty's Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , on behalf of the British Government, on
the one part, and Sheikh Mubarak-bin-Sheikh Subah, Sheikh of Koweit, on the other
part; that the said Sheikh Mubarak-bin-Sheikh Subah, of his own free will and desire,
does hereby pledge and bind himself, his heirs and successors, not to receive the agent or
representative of any Power or Government at Koweit, or at any other place within
the limits of his territory, without the previous sanction of the British Government;
and he further binds himself, his heirs and successors, not to cede, sell, lease, mortgage,
or give for occupation or for any other purpose, any portion of his territory to the
Government or subjects of any other Power without the previous consent of Her
Majesty's Government for these purposes. This engagement also to extend to any
portion of the territory of the said Sheikh Mubarak which may now be in possession of
the subjects of any other Government.
In token of the conclusion of this lawful and honourable bond, Lieutenant-Colonel
Malcolm John Meade, LS.C., Her Britannic Majesty's Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian
Gulf, and Sheikh Mubarak-bin-Sheikh Subah, the former on behalf of the British
Government, and the latter on behalf of himself, his heirs and successors, do each, in
the presence of witnesses, affix their signatures, on this the 10th day of Ramazan, 1316,
corresponding with the 23rd day of January, 1899.
(L.S.) M. J. MEADE,
Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
(L.S.) MUBARAK-EL-SUBAH.
Witnesses:
(L.S.) E. Wickham Hore, Captain, I.M.S.
(L.S.) J. Calcott Gaskin.
(L.S.) Muhammad Rahim-bin-Abdul Nebi Saffer.