File 87/1926 Pt 2 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Relations with H.M.G. Revision of Treaty.' [‎399r] (485/840)

Bahra Agreement.
Translation.
WHEREAS with a view to securing good relations between the two
Governments of ‘Iraq and Nejd, a Treaty known as the Muhammara
invention was agreed upon between those two Governments and
signed on the 7th Ramadan 1340 (corresponding to the 5th May,
1922), and
WHEREAS the aforesaid Treaty was supplemented by two Pro
tocols, known respectively as Protocol Number I and Protocol
Number II of the Muhammara Convention, which were signed at
‘Uqair on the 12th Rabi‘ Thani 1341 (corresponding to the 2nd
December, H922), and
WHEREAS the aforesaid Treaty and Protocols have been duly
ratified by the two Governments of ‘Iraq and Nejd, and
WHEREAS in Article 1 of the aforesaid Muhammara Convention
the Governments of ‘Iraq and of Nejd have guaranteed mutually that
they will prevent aggression by their tribes on the tribes of the other
and will punish their tribes for any such aggression and, should the
circumstances not admit of such punishment, the two Governments
will discuss the question of taking combined action according to the
good relations prevailing between them, and
WHEREAS it is considered advisable by His Britannic Majesty’s
Government and by the two Governments aforementioned, in the
interests of friendship and good relations between the two countries
of ‘Iraq and Nejd to come to an agreement regarding certain matters
which are outstanding between those two countries,
WE, the undersigned, His Highness ‘Abdu’i-‘A^iz ibn ‘Abdu r-
Rahman al-Faisal Al Sa‘ud, Sultan of Nejd and its Dependencies, and
Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., the duly accredited
Commissioner and Plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty s
Government, who has been empowered to come to an agreement and
sign on behalf of the ‘Iraq Government, have agreed upon the
following articles :—
Article 1.
The States of ‘Iraq and Nejd severally recognise that raiding by
tribes settled in their territories into the territory of the other State
is an aggression which necessitates the severe punishment of the
perpetrators by the Ciovernment to which they are subject and that
the chief of the tribe committing such aggression is to be held respon
sible.
Article 2.
(a) A special tribunal shall be set up, by agreement between the
two Governments of ‘Iraq and Nejd, which shall meet from time to
time to enquire into the particulars of any aggression committed across