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No. 2.
TRANSLATION OR THE GENERAL TREATY WITH THE ARAB
TRIBES OR THE PERSIAN GULP, 1820.
Itf the name oe God, the merciful, the compassionate!
Praise be to God, who bath ordained peace to be a blessing to bis creatures.
There is established a lasting peace between the British Government and the
Arab tribes, who are parties to this contract, on the following conditions
Article 1.
There shall be a cessation of plunder and piracy by land and sea on the
part of the Arabs, who are parties to this contract, for ever.
Article 2.
If any individual of the people of the Arabs contracting shall attack any
that pass by land or sea of any nation whatsoever, in the way of plunder and
piracy and not of acknowledged war, he shall be accounted an enemy of all
mankind and shall be held to have forfeited both life and goods. An acknow
ledged war is that which is proclaimed, avowed, and ordered by government
against government; and the killing of men and taking of goods _ without
proclamation, avowal, and the order of a government, is plunder and piracy.
Article 3.
The friendly (literally the pacificated) Arabs shall carry by land and sea a
red flag, with or without letters in it, at their option, and this shall be in a
border of white, the breadth of the white in the border being equal to the
breadth of the red as represented in the margin (the whole forming the flag
knmvn in the British Navy by the title of white pierced red), this shall he the
flag of the friendly Arabs, and they shall use it and no other.
Article 4.
The pacificated tribes shall all of them continue in their former relations,
with the exception that they shall be at peace with the British Government,
and shall not fight with each other, and the flag shall be a symbol of this only
and of nothing further.
Article 5.
The vessels of the friendly Arabs shall all of them have in their possession
a paper (Register) signed with the signature of their Chief, in which shall be
the name of the vessel, its length, its breadth, and how many Karahs it holds.
And they shall also have in their possession another writing (Port Clearance)
signed with the signature of their Chief, in which shall be the name of the
owner, the name of the Nakhoda, the number of men, the number of arms from
whence sailed, at what time, and to what port bound. And if a British or
other vessel meet them, they shall produce the Register and the clearance.
Article 6 .
The friendly Arabs, if they choose, shall send an envoy to the British
Residency in the Persian Gulf with the necessary accompaniments, and he
shall remain there for the transaction of their business with the Residency;
and the British Government, if it chooses, shall send an envoy also to them in
like manner; and the envoy shall add his signature to the signature of the
Chief in the paper (Register) of their vessels, which contains the length of the
vessel, its breadth, and tonnage; the signature of the envoy to be renewed
every year. Also all such envoys shall be at the expense of their own party.
Article 7.
If any tribe or others, shall not desist from plunder and piracy, the
friendly Arabs shall act against them according to their ability and circum
stances, and an arrangement for this purpose shall take place between the