"الملف 14/115 VII الملحق (B 9) أكسيد جزيرة أبو موسى: مواد خلفية حول هذه القضية" [و‎‎٣‎٤‎٩] (١٩٠٤/٧٢٤)

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on this letter was recorded an office note to the /
following effect : " Shaikh Sagar eeems to insist
that if Calia continuea to live on Bu Musa he should
give a guarantee through the Resident that h» will
not do anything to disturb hint , Shaikh Sagar , or
the maritime peace * 11 1
On 5th April Shaikh Sagar wrote the Resident another i
letter pressing for a reply to the above • He added
that he had coaraunicated his precise object in writing
to the Residency Agent,who would explain it . ©lis was
that now that spring had arrived he wished to send hie
horse® as usual for grazing and was not sure whether
Shaikh Sail* would leave the* and their caretakers in |
peace • If the Resident i?ould not allow hin to make
his own arrangeaents for ensuring safety of life and |
property on the island he wanted an assurance from the f
Residency that his stud would not bv molested by Shaikii
Sal is. *
Shaikh Sali» however who was now getting into finan-f
-clal straits solved the difficulty himself , He sad© {
an appeal to the Residency alleging that Shaikh Sagar
and the guar?mtors of the Agreement of 1885 had not
stood by the terms of it s that they had taken away
the state horses which as Shaikh of Shargah , he had
had wdbth him on the island when his nephew ousted hi*
from the Shaikhdoa tthat he , Shaikh Sail* had had
to sell all he possessed to maintain himself and now
had nothing left j and that he had now come to beg
his nephew to provide him with the wherewithal for a
bare living . He declared that if he got this h© would
remain in peace and quietude , Finally he begged our
Agent to intercede for hia and to induce Shaikh Sagar
to act up to the Agreement •
By the advice of the Residency Agent , Shaikh Sagar,
who had found the 600 dollars somewhat too much for his
purse , consented to pay his uncle a reduced all-
-owance of 400 dollars annualJy , half of which only
maa to be pSfc4 In cash and the other half in grain and