'Files 61/12 and 61/16 (D 80) Treaty between Bin Saud and H. M. Govt' [‎134r] (274/408)

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ifhether His Majesty's Crovemment would be preioared
to retain only the first r>a3rt of the provision, i h^re ry
Ibn Saud wowld undertake to co-onerate in the nun Trgsion
of alrve trad^, and to orit the second oart ren^rding the
recognition of the rightof manwis^ion. I r r Anteniif
added that the rlrdhit of manumission h».d rover be^n formally
reco ^ised, and that circumstanoee were such a« to ^l^xe
it beyond Ibn Band 1 # ^o^er to reco-^nise it. Ibn '6mA had
taken up the attitude tnat a r>rorisicn of this kind *afc not
suitable in a Treaty of Friends iH, ana .• r. Jordan and 1.r.
Antoniuf? h d foiuid some diffic^iHy in meeting this noint.
After some discussion, it r- .s declrled to an mt
to higher authority the question whether momtmiseion mi?tht
not be nealt with, not in the Ire ty itself, V iy
of an ..xchrir:e of Notes, rhich would be mblia^ed at the
ssmt time as the Treaty. In their ^lote to Ibn *>aud is
llajiety^ Government would state in unmistaJcrble Imusge
that they did not re^ex^ the treaty ar rffoctinr. in anyway
the long standinr nr^ctice ofmnminnien, and thr.t they would
continue to ret in this ratter tf they hw alwaye done In
the If this were done w Ibn S«ud e^cer^ted this
position, M mi ~ht be ^snible to omit -11 reference to
ma«®iis#ion fr m the treaty it?elf, hether this Iternatiwt
would prove acceptable to Ibn Baud was a ooint on which
Vr. J or if n hesitated to er^reso a decided opinion.
The Conference then considered the questi n of
the frontier beUeen Trans Jordan and the lejas.
Jh* roaimoji winUd out that, as a^^xed fr s 'ao rr-oort
of 1 es®r$t. Jordi ft &nd Antonius, Ibn Sand -lad in t ie "-Irst
Inetanc# lemandsd the cession of Maan iUc-iba. Subsequently
he had ^reed to withdraw hie daaanr, and to assent to a
continuance of the GUQ t)«ndin^ ultimate settlement
of