File 87/1926 Pt 2 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Relations with H.M.G. Revision of Treaty.' [‎363r] (413/840)

Minute Paper.
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Department.
Note The lease, or rather the payment of rent
for the Bunder Shvcikh site, was terminated in 1922.
It does not appear however that the agreement was
abrogated, and the reciprocal pledges, so far as
they are not affected by other subsequent instruments
presumably remain binding.
I (f). Letter date d 3rd Nove mber. 1914 from the
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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. to the Sheikh, in which the Sheikh
was given, in return for his co-operation against the
Turks, certain assurances of which the third was
that M Koweit shall be recognised as an independent
principality under British protection H ,
(g) The undertakings given to Sheikh Mubarak
i
m
were renewed in 1917 to his son Jabir ; and again,on
his accession,to the latter’s successor, his brother
Salim. To Salim who proved troublesome, Government
in 1918 offered to renew the assurances given to
his predecessors, particularly that given in
Article 9 of the Agreement of 1907, on condition of
his good behaviour, (i.e. implied the threat to
cancel on failure of good behaviour: the Sheikh
took the hint.)
(h) In a Kharita An important letter usually sent in an elaborate textile pouch, dispatched as part of the royal or diplomatic correspondence of rulers and elites. delivered on 19th July 1921
the Viceroy renewed to the present Sheikh, Ahmad
ai Jabir, nephew of Salim, the assurances given
to the latter.
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