"ملف رقم ٠٢٥٥ الحدود" [و‎‎٩‎٨] (٣٣١/١٩٦)

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D.O. to the Resident*
Please refer tc> your confidential
endorsement No.692-S dated the 31st March, 1948*
2* While I shall be glad to discuss
Burrow 1 s letter with you, I feel that suC:h an
important matter should not be the subject of
oral discussion only and I am letting you have my
views in writing. \ j\
3. As far as I am aware there is no active
dispute about the boundaries between Muscat and
Has al Khaimah or Muscat and Kalba. The limit
of Muscat’s jurisdiction in the Wadi el Qaur was
described in the enclosure to my printed letter
No*C/163 dated the 5th February, 1948, and the
boundary between Muscat and Kalba is established
at Khatam Malahah and is marked by a stone wall.
I enclose copies of two original documents now
in the possession of the present Shaikh of Sharjah,
with translations. You will observe that in
1268 Hijri (99 years ago) Sai'd bin Sultan of
Muscat renounced all intention to interfere with
the tribes subject to Jawassim influence in the
area from Khatam Malahah westwards and northwards
to the Dhahirah. In 1288 Hijri Turki bin Sai’d
reiterated his father’s undertakings to the
Jawassim, but made an exception of Khassab. The
Muscat claim to suzerainty over the Beni Ka’ab and
the Nai'm of Buraimi (including the Al Bu Shamis)
appears to be of more recent origin, because the
present Shaikh of Sharjah claims that in 1268 Hijri
the Jawassim were paramount over all the tribes of
Buraimi. Had Muscat at that time any suzerainty
over these tribes presumably it would have been
mentioned in these documents^as Khassab was.