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guarantee of submission to the award having at length been obtained
from him, Brigadier-General W. M. Coghlan, Resident at Aden,, was
appointed in May 1860 to investigate the claims of the disputants
with the assistance of the Reverend G. P. Badger, Chaplain of Aden,
an accomplished Arabic scholar, and of Mr, Hormuzd Rassam,
temporary British Agent at Masqat. The proceedings of the Commis
sioner, who began by securing from each of the parties a formal
bond for his acceptance of the Viceroy's decision, were careful and
exhaustive; and his final report, which was not submitted until the
close of the year, was accepted by Lord Canning without modification
except in one unimportant particular. To the multifarious questions
of principle and fact with which the report dealt it is unnecessary to
refer in detail here.
The general result of Lord Canning's award, promulgated on the Award of
2nd of April 1861, was to separate the African possessions of the
late Saiyid Sa'id from his territories in Arabia ; to assign the new which Xaml-
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and independent principality of Zanzibar, thus created, to Majid ; 8e p ara ted
and to impose on Majid and his successors an obligation to pay the
sum of $40,000 a year to Thuwaini and his successors, not by way m ade payable
of tribute, but in adjustment of the unequal inheritance of the two letter*
branches of the family, and as compensation for the abandonment by 1861.
rulers of ■'Oman of their claims to sovereignty over Zanzibar. 1 he
arrears payable by Majid to Thuwaini were at the same time fixed
at ^80,000; and it was resolved to negative a claim advanced by lurki
that his position at Sohar should be recognised as independent. Both
Thuwaini and Majid, verbally and in writing, professed themselves
satisfied with the Viceroy's decision ; and before the end of the year
the latter had discharged the first six-monthly instalment of the subsidy
and had remitted bills in payment of the total arrears. Experience
had shown that the two States of 'Oman and Zanzibar could not be
successfully governed by the same ruler ; and it cannot be doubted
that their separation on such equitable terms was benencial to both.
On the separation of the principalities the Government of Bombay Title^^ ^ ^
decided that each of the two rulers should in future be styled Sultan, a . 0m \ n an
term by which, from this point onwards, we shall generally describe them.
* The significance of the title Im&m ia fully discussed by Badger in bis Imams Q overnmen ^
and Seyyids, pages 378—381. As the term Sultan (though possibly of British
origin) is now commonly applied to the rulers of Oman even y na ives o e
country, we have used it in the text (in preference to ^ Saiyi ) o esignate
the successors of the Imams. The present ruler, however, is descn e on is own
coins both as Sultan and as Imam.
officially
adopted by
British