'A Collection of Treaties and Engagements relating to the Persian Gulf Shaikhdoms and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman in force up to the End of 1953' [‎19r] (39/92)

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PART IV
TRUCIAL STATES A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
No. 1
General Treaty for the Cessation of Plunder and Piracy by Land and Sea,
dated February 5, 1820.
Translation of the General Treaty with the Arab Tribes of the Persian
Gulf—mo.
In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate!
Praise be to God, who hath ordained peace to be a blessing to his creatures.
There is established a lasting peace between the British Government and the Arab
tribes, who are parties to this contract, on the following conditions: —
Article 1.
There shall be a cessation of plunder and piracy by land and sea on the part
of the Arabs, who are parties to this contract, for ever.
Article 2.
If any individual of the people of the Arabs contracting shall attack any that
pass by land or sea of any nation whatsoever, in the way of plunder and piracy
and not of acknowledged war, he shall be accounted an enemy of all mankind and
shall be held to have forfeited both life and goods. An acknowledged war is that
which is proclaimed, avowed, and ordered by government against government; and
the killing of men and taking of goods without proclamation, avowal, and the
order of a government, is plunder and piracy.
Article 3.
The friendly (literally the pacificated) Arabs shall carry by land and sea a
red flag, with or without letters in it, at their option, and this
shall be in a border of white, the breadth of the white in the
border being equal to the breadth of the red, as represented in the
margin (the whole forming the flag known in the British Navy by
the title of white pierced red), this shall be the flag of the friendly
Arabs, and they shall use it and no other.
Article 4.
The pacificated tribes shall all of them continue in their former relations, with
the exception that they shall be at peace with the British Government, and shall
not fight with each other, and the flag shall be a symbol of this only and of nothing
further.
Article 5.
The vessels of the friendly Arabs shall all of them have in their possession a
paper (Register) signed with the signature of their Chief, in which shall be the name
of the vessel, its length, its breadth, and how many Karahs it holds. And they
shall also have in their possession another writing (Port Clearance) signed with
the signature of their Chief, in which shall be the name of the owner, the name
of the^Nacodah, the number of men, the number of arms, from whence sailed, at
what time, and to what port bound. And if a British or other vessel meet them,
they shall produce the Register and the clearance.
Article 6.
The friendly Arabs, if they choose, shall send an envoy to the British Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. with the necessary accompaniments, and he shall remain
there for the transaction of their business with the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. ; and the British
Government if it chooses, shall send an envoy also to them in like manner; and
the envoy shall add his signature to the signature of the Chief in the paper (Register)
of their vessels, which contains the length of the vessel, its breadth, and tonnage;
the signature of the envoy to be renewed every year. Also all such envoy shall
be at the expense of their own party.
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