"ملف 73/7 IV (D 25) المفاوضات الأنجلو تركية" [و‎‎١‎٨] (١٠٣/٣٩)

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Government, and the latter on behalf of himself, his heirs and successors, do each, in
the presence of witnesses, affix their signatures, on this the 10th day of Ramazan, 1316,
corresponding with the 23rd day of January, 1899.
(L.S.) M. J. MEADE,
Political Resident in the
Persian Gulf.
(L.S.) MUBARAK-EL-SUBAH.
Witnesses:
(L.S.) E. Wickham Hore, Captain, LM.S.
(L.S.) t J. Calcott Gaskin.
(L.S.) Muhammad Rahim-bin-Abdul Nebi Saffer.
Annexe 11.
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Agreement hy Sheikh Mubarek-bin-Suhah, Chief of Koweit.
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(Translation.)
I AGREE to absolutely prohibit the importation of arms into Koweit or
exportation therefrom, and to enforce this I have issued a notification and proclamation
to all concerned.
Dated this 24th day of Moharrum, 1318 (24th day of May, 1900).
(Seal of Sheikh Mubarek-el-Subah.)
Annexe III.
Postal AgreemeM of February 28, 1904, tmih the Sheikh of Koweit.
(Translation.)
AS the British Government hae agreed, in accordance with my desire and for the
benefit of traders, to establish a post-office at Koweit, I, on my part, agree not to allow
the establishment here of a post-offiee by any other Government. I accordingly write
this undertaking on behalf of myself and my successors.
(Seal of Sheikh Mubarek-el-Subah,)
Koweit, the l\th Zil Ilaj, 1321
{February 2S, 1904).
Annexe IV.
Sir Edward Grey to Tewfik Pasha.
Your Highness, Foreign Office, October 24, 1911.
IN compliance with the request which, under Instructions from your Government,
you were good enough to make to me on the 16th ultimo, I have the honour to transmit
to you herewith copies of the agreements concluded by His Majesty's Government
with the Trucial chiefs of Oman and the Sheikhs of Bahrein and Koweit, to which
reference is made in the memorandum communicated to your Highness on the 29th
July last.
With respect to these agreements His Majesty's Government have the following
observations to make :—
As regards No. 1, His Majesty's Government have informed the Sheikh of Koweit
that so long as he and his heirs and successors act up to their obligations under the
agreement, His Majesty's Government undertake to support them and accord them
the^r good offices. His Majesty's Government reserve to themselves the right to
interpret that term at their discretion.
His Majesty's Government hold, moreover, a lease of land from the Sheikh ot
Koweit.
As regards No. 4, His Majesty's Government take occasion to remind the Sublime
Porte that British rights in the Persian Gulf and on the coast rest not merely on the
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