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Coll 6/9 'Jeddah Reports Jany 1931–' [90r] (180/802)
The record is made up of 1 file (399 folios). It was created in 1 Jul 1931-31 Mar 1938. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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m the first instance and shall grant him respite for a period not exceeding
two months in order to examine again the condition of the complainant, and
if it is satisfied in the second instance that the grounds for complaint still exist
it shall compel the owner or possessor to divest himself of the ownership or
oossession of the complainant, either by sale or otherwise. If the owner or
Possessor fails to bring the complainant before the competent authority within
the period fixed by it, he shall be punished in the first instance by a fine not
exceeding £ 1 , and if the contravention is repeated a fine double that amount
shall be imposed, and he may be sentenced to imprisonment for a period not
exceeding one week.
Art. 4. Any slave who can prove that he was born free and that he was
enslaved in a manner contrary to Islamic law, during the period which has
elapsed since the establishment of the Government of His Majesty the King in
the year 1344, shall have the right to petition for his release from slavery, and
it is the duty of the competent authority to consent to examine the case and
to give an equitable decision concerning it.
Art. 5. Subject to any rights which the owner or possessor may have
reserved in a form recognised by Islamic law and recorded in writing at the
time of the marriage, it shall not be lawful for the owner or possessor to separate
two slaves who have contracted matrimony in accordance with Islamic law, except
under an order issued in accordance with that law.
Ait. 6 . i he owner or possessor shall not separate children from their
mother so long as they are minors.
Art. 7. I he slave shall have the right to apply to his owner or possessor
for Mukataba, (i.e., an agreement enabling the slave to purchase his freedom),
and it shall be the duty of the owner or possessor to accede to this demand, and
in the event of any dispute arising between owner or possessor and slave as to
the amount of the sum to be paid that sum shall be assessed by the competent
authorities^ and they shall appoint dates for its discharge. The existence of
the Mukataba shall not be held to set aside the application of the provisions
of article 3 above.
Art. 8 . Any slave who was born outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
shall have the right to choose the place where he shall reside when he has been
freed in accordance with the provisions of this regulation or in accordance with
any other form recognised by Islamic law.
Art. 9. All slaves must be enrolled in a special register to be kept by the
competent authorities, and every slave shall be given a certificate of identity
containing his description, and in the case of males his photograph. Certificates
of identity shall be in triplicate, one to be kept by the competent authorities, one
by the owner or possessor and one by the slave.' There shall be entered on the
certificate of identity all the formalities relating to the slave and the owners
or possessors of the slave shall be required to complete the formalities of the
registration within one year from the date of the promulgation of this regulation
Art, 10 . Any slave who has not been registered by his owner in the
manner set forth in the preceding article shall have the right to present himself
before the competent authority and to demand to be given a certificate of
freedom.
Art. 11 . When slaves are transferred from the possession of one person
to that of another they must be produced before one of the doctors of the Depart
ment of Public Health in order to obtain a certificate that thev are in -mod
health. ^
Part III.
Art. 12. It is not permitted to engage in the traffic in slaves as an agent
or
broker
Often a local commercial agent in the Gulf who regularly performed duties of intelligence gathering and political representation.
, except in accordance with an official licence issued bv the competent
authority. * r
Art. 13. A special official, entitled Inspector of Slave Affairs, shall be
appointed to deal with matters relating to slaves and he shall have, in case of
necessity, a travelling assistant.
Art. 14. The competent local authorities shall present a six-monthly report
on the working of this regulation, containing a summary of the formalities which
have been concluded, and the six-monthly reports shall be forwarded, together
with the observations of the Inspector of Slave Affairs, to the Minister of the
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This file consists almost entirely of copies (forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India) of printed reports sent either by the His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bullard), or, in the Minister's absence, by His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires (Cecil Gervase Hope Gill, succeeded by Albert Spencer Calvert), to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Most of the reports cover a two-month period and are prefaced by a table of contents. The reports discuss a number of matters relating to the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia), including internal affairs, frontier questions, foreign relations, the Hajj, and slavery.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (399 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 400; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The leather cover wraps around the documents; the back of the cover has not been foliated.
A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/2073
- Title
- Coll 6/9 'Jeddah Reports Jany 1931–'
- Pages
- 48v, 89v:90v, 334v:335v
- Author
- Um al-Qura xx Umm-al-Qura xx Ummul Qura
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