'File No: E.7. Qatar & Anglo-Turkish Convention of 1913' [‎202r] (418/460)

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To have imh ted would have involved goin^j through with hiia
carefully every ^ife and every itera that ho had to «i(?i f
and argiiin^ afcain many unim wt?mt details of them which are
obsolete or inapplicable to the case of Qatar at the TeFent
tii e; I therefore did not in* irt # In T)oint o.. fact the ca 1
for such plethora of oeal^ and signatures is one that
any unsophisticated Arab Shaikh would jib at. ue do not exact
them from new Trucial OhiefF on accession, it being considered
in their case sufficient to make sure th' t t ey are in possession
of a copy of the Coiapilation of Treaties and to take their
asrurance that tr ey acoe^t the obli( ? tion to abide "o r t ecu v
This ^haikl) ^bdullaii has rpeoifically done in Article
(1) of his Treaty with us and 1 ho ^e that it will be regarde .
as sufficient.
(3) iiI !TICLS(3)« In pursuance of your Telo^ran Mo. 331 S dated
29th June 1916 f this Article has been amplified in order to
provide reasonable eafe^ujirds j^ainst the aale to the public
of rifles obtain© by the Bhaikh through our auspicef ; and
the annual allowance of tl.em is reauced froa ''not excec ing 1J00
to " up to five undred .
(4) AHTICJ f (6) (7) (8) & (9). WiOFe were the 4 Articles
repardinr which difficulty was to be exP#ote(i. --e h td
decided not to ^ress for the adiais ion of . ji iti; h traQcr? ..O j
the pres ent. Article (6) was altered so as to apply to ijr-itish
merchandise only and not to trader » and wai> laced jeiorc
the three following ite» a? bein( : ; raore likel: of accent; nee.
As now worded it is intended to protect jriti^h li^-ian
merchants residing in jftlirein consigning goods to tlietr agents
in ^atar. I was prepared, as authorise ^ to eliidn o the
next three Articles if it should prove neoessar-, but the
alternative course of allowing tbeia to Pin.a while owfposxini.
action on thorn by a separate letter seemed referable, as^
obviating the alteration of the Treaty at Bona future ti e,
and the poa ihle citation to us by other bhaikhr of the special
treatment of C.atar in these rv ieot*. I trust the Govornnent