File 87/1926 Pt 2 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Relations with H.M.G. Revision of Treaty.' [‎182v] (52/840)

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Article 7.
His Majesty the King of the Hejaz and Sultan of Nejd and its Dependen '
undertakes to co-operate with His Britannic Majesty in the suppression of the s] CleS
trade and to recognise the right of manumission of His Britannic Maiestv’« ormf ^ Ve
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Article 8.
The present treaty shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be exchanged a
soon as possible. It shall come into force immediately upon ratification and shall be
binding during seven years from the date of its coming into force, when the treaty
concluded between His Britannic Majesty and His Majesty the King of the Heiaz
and Sultan of Nejd and its Dependencies, then Sultan of Nejd, on the 26th December
1915, shall cease to have effect. In case neither of the high contracting parties shall
have given notice to the other six months before the expiration of the said period of
seven years of his intention to terminate the treaty, it shall remain in force until the
expiration of six months from the dav on which either of the high contracting mrti>
shall have given such notice.
The present treaty has been drawn up in quadruplicate in English and Arabic
Both texts shall have the same validity, but in case of divergence the English text
shall prevail. One copy of each text shall remain deposited in the archives of the
Government of His Majesty the King of the Hejaz and Sultan of Nejd and its
Dependencies and one copy of each text in those of the Government of His Britannic
Majesty, the remaining copies being used for the purpose of the exchange of ratifica
tions provided for in this article.
In witness whereof, &c.
Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
Majesty s Government, a report on the situation which is being created in Trucial
Oman, and particularly in the inland portion of that territory lying between Hasa
( the Sanjak of Nejd the Turks called the district when they possessed it) and
the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, by the activities of the Amir (Governor of Hasa),
yho represents the bultan of Nejd in Eastern Arabia.
2. I attach a note with a map* about this area and the tribes who dwell in it.
M\ information is practically all extracted from Lorimer’s “ Gazetteer of the Persian
Gult, 1908, but the limits of the sub-districts are outlined tentatively according
to the letter-press, as the map which accompanied Lorimer’s w^ork does not show
them.
3. When Ibn Saud captured Hasa from the Turks in 1913, he did in fact, I
behexe, acquire and annex to his State the large desert region called Jafurah and
the isolated oasis of Jabrin—although the Turks had exercised no authority in
either because (1) the only inhabitants of, or visitors to, these two tracts are Al
Hon a and Ajman Bedouin, whose fellow -tribesmen certainly have connection with
Hasa. and (2) no sheikh of the coast has ever exercised authority there.
4. In November-December 1922 Sir Percy Cox had conversationst with Ibn
baud at Ojair about the grant of a concession for oil in the Hasa district to the
Eastern and General Syndicate. Sir Percy found that the Sultan proposed to
me tide the whole of Katar in this concession and took him to task for it.
ln^ the end the Sultan accepted as his eastern boundary a line running due
south trom the head of Salwah Bey (at the bottom of the Gulf of Bahrein), and
in due course this line was given to the syndicate as the eastern border of is
concession Looking at the “ Gazetteer " map, one might imagine that the who
ot - a tin a lies to the west of this line, but the letter-press clearly shows that it doe
no ^'. . to me that Ibn Saud can hardly be expected to refrain from exercisin D
jurisdiction over the Al Morra all over the Jafura desert.
Not reproduced.
f Vids Enclosure 4 in No. 1.