'File No: E.7. Qatar & Anglo-Turkish Convention of 1913' [‎17v] (51/460)

and for the arming; of mv influential friends and dependents for their personal
use and protection, such arms and ammunition as I may need and apply for in
such fashion as may be arranged hereafter, through the I ohtical Agent, Bahrein.
The number of arms, thus annually imported shall not exceed 1000 rifles per
annum with 400 rounds of ammunition per rifle and two pistols shall for this pur«
pose, be considered as equivalent to one rifle.
The British Government, on its side, in consiceratron of the undertaking
into which 1 now enter, agrees to pay me a subsidy of Rs. 1,000 per mensem, to
be paid regularly to me, or to my duly authorised agent at Bahrein through the
Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrein.
I, Shaikh Abdulla, further, in particular, undertake to receive, should the
British Government deem it advisable, an Agent from the British Government
who shall remain at A1 Bidaa for the transaction of such business as the British
Government may have with me and to watch over the interests of British traders,
residing at my Ports or visiting them upon their lawful < ccasions.
The Customs import dues upon British Goods shall not exceed those levied
from my own subjects on their goods and shall in no case exceed 5 per cent ad
valorem. British subjects and their goods shall be liable to the payment of no
other dues, taxes, or service of any other kind whatsoever beyond that already
specified. I Shaikh Abdulla, further undertake that I will not have relations nor
correspond with nor receive, the agent of any other Power without the consent
of the High British Government; Neither will I without such consent, cede, to
any other Power or its subjects, laid either on lease, sale, transfer, gift or in
any other way whatsoever.
1 also declare that, without the consent of the High British Government,
I will not grant any monopolies, concessions or cable landing rights to anyone
whomsoever.
On their ptrt. the High British Gavernment, in consideration of these
Treaties and Engagements that I have entered into with them, undertakes to
protect me and rny subjects and territory from ad aggression by sea and to do their
utmost to exact reparation for all injuries that I, or my subjects, my suffer when
proceeding to sea upon our lawful occasions.
They also undertake to grant me good offices, should I or my subjects be
assailed bv land within the territories of Qatar. It is, however, thoroughly under
stood that this obligation rests upon the British Government only in the event
of such aggression, whether by land or sea, being unprovoked by any act or
aggression on the part of myself or my subjects against others.
In token whereof, I, Major S. G. Knox, 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 1, Shaikh Abdulia bin Jasnn bin Fham, have respectively signed and
affixed our seal to this original document and four copies thereof.
Dated at Signatures.
DRAFT.
Qatar Proclamation, prohibiting the Traffic in Arms.
Be it known to all who may see this ;
Whereas it has become known to us that the traffic in Arms inlo Brftisl
India, Persia, Kuwait, Bahrein and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. is prohibited,
, ■ J' u " ders 1 1 8 ned ' Abdul ' ah b 'n Jasim bin Thani, Shaikh of Qatar have
fo?hifillllfL a ffir' n an m d y | P r Wer K t0 , aSS , iSt th u eBritish Government in putt.ng'a stop
the imnoitetlon of Arnv: C I ^ fr0m the date of tnis proclamation
the itnpoitation of Arms, Canndges and all munitions into our lerritorv and tb(
export:,unn of the same to other places are absolutely prohibited AN Arrtt
and Ammunition, imported into Qatar territnrv or v \ P[ oniC, itecl. All ^rm
future, be liable to seizuie, and confiscation ^ therefrom . "
That it may not be hidden.
Date
Signature.
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