'File 14/266 II Status of Hamriya' [‎5r] (10/40)

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In 19?1, old "^oadm^T) A'bdur P^atiman was murdered,
(not t>y Fuma^d), and after a short period of unrest
Fumaid, the same Fumaid who had caused most of the
trouble of the past 2° years, and who had previously
set himself un as independent of Sharjah, established
himself as Feadman. It was at this time th^t the
Polltioal Pesident wrote to the Government of India
statin* th^t Famriyah was a fief of Sharjah (thereby
over-rulin* Gol. Barrett's noting) and suggesting that
Famriyah could perhaps be considered independent, but
that in view of the recent murders he considered matter
should be left as they were for the present, and that
if the situation changed the matter could be considered
afresh.
In 1932 a plot, hatched by three men of Hamriyah
to murder Fumaid was frustrated by the latter, Furcaid
is still ^eadman of Famriyah.
^be important point to note in this last plot
is that the Sheikh o^ Sharjah concerned himself in the
punishment o^ the plotters and in a letter to 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. Agent, in which he washed his hands of any
complicity in the plot, called the plotters his
subjects.
Fery briefly the historical aspect boils down
to (a) up to 192? Famriyah was clearly an appanage of
Sharjah, (b) From 1923 to 1927 it was seeretely consi
dered independent, (c) In 1927 a new Sheikh of Sharjah
is reported to have verbally covenanted with the
headman o^ ^amriyah. (d) In 1932 the Sheikh of Sharjah
takes an interest in Famriyah's affairs and calls some
of its peonle his subjects.
Famriyah indenend^n41y>, the Sheikh of Sharjah is most
unlikely to exert his lordship over Famriyah while
7o my mind, considering Fumaid's efforts