"الملف 14/115 VII الملحق (B 9) أكسيد جزيرة أبو موسى: مواد خلفية حول هذه القضية" [و‎‎٢‎٩‎٠] (١٩٠٤/٦٠٦)

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BUIKF GOmniT
m SUMMASt OF THE FRESH ARGDMEHTS AHD EVIDE80B HOW
SUBMITTED.
It seotao unneoessary to do more than take up the thread
from the point where It was left by Note cubmittsd to H*fc 8 s
Foreign Office on 10th February 1910, to which I beg reference.
Hi® "iaouee* referred to below arc those fraraed in that
note.
I b stir (a)
( -j) She right to jotoaa and flotsan.
It is shown by dociimentary and testamentary evidence
that in the Gulf the right is levied by the local inhabit-
ante and their overlord# if he can,and sees fit to do
so, takes his share. It is shown also that no one but the
Ruling Sheikh has been recognised in this connection, but
that he (sagar) in virtue of the arrangement by which he
allowed Salim the income of Abu Musa, has left the levy
to hia.
(2) the rejected version of the Oxide Conossslon dated 6th
April 1P.98 is shown to have been drafted by Abduulah bin
Hasan Saraalyeh hiaself, and to have been rejected by Abdul
Latlf specifically on account of the unwarrantable claim
therein put Into SalIra's mouth, of formal ownership. The
final version of the Concession was then drafted by Abdul
Latlf hlraself.
{3). Vihat the German Mote calls "revenue from mother-of-
near l«» a. n d canary seed" Is shown to bo a mistranslation.
It ohould bo "ground rent from storage of 'muhar* and
i zixmi * oyster-shells" . The ♦muhar' and * Jilnnl are two
Bnooios of pearl -bearing shells. The word for canary seed
•kasnl* I 8 eoraewhat like zlnni »
Sheikh Sagar specifically allowed this to go to Sallm as
part of the Income of the Is-and. ^