File 600/1905 Pt 6 'Aden Hinterland: Upper Yaffai; treaties with Sultan Kahtan and other Chiefs' [‎42r] (79/212)

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No.7204 of 1913.
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Political Department:
Bombay Cartie, bth December 1913
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C. C. Watson Esquire, C.I.E.,
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To
The Secretary to the Government of India
in the Foreign Department.
Sir,
I am directed to refer to the correspondence ending
with the Government of India’s letter in the Foreign Departs
n ment N0.739-E.B., dated the 16th February 1906, on the
subject of our relations with Sultan Kahtan bin Umar of
Upper Yaffai.
2. The 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. , Aden, reports that Sultan
Kahtan died on the 26th September 1913, and that his son
Dinar has written to him stating that he has succeeded to
his father’s position and expressing the hope that the
yearly stipend of Rs.1,200 paid to his father will be
continued to him.
3. The position of affairs as regards the late Sultan
Kahtan has not undergone any change since the date of the
Government of Bombay’s letter No.8304, dated the 22nd
December 1905 and Sultan Saleh bin Linar still remains in
possession of the family’s headquarters. There is, there
fore, little prospect, so far as ca.h be judged at present,
of the son recovering the lost position of his father.
y Nevertheless, the Resident considers that it would not be
.politic to withdraw our support from Umar, and he ma.Kes two
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alternative suggestions for meeting the situation, viz., (1)
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that Umar be given a period of grace - say one year - to
rehabilitate himself and that the stipend be paid to him