ملف ١٩٢٦/٣٩٣٩ الجزء ٦ "تنقيح معاهدات أيتشيسون. قسم الخليج الفارسي." [و‎‎٦‎٢‎٥] (٨١٨/٦٨٥)

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cles gare tlie BritisL. Governmajit tlie right to search and confiscate slavg
iVessels found beyond a line from Cape Delgado, on the African coast,
passing two degrees east of Sokotra, and ending at Cape Guadel, on tKd
'Makran coast, unless driven beyond that line by stress of weather or other,
necessity. By the third article the sale of persons of the Somali tribe;
,was declared to be piracy. The same Chiefs, and also the Chiefs of
•Ajmnn and Bahrein, entered into Engagements* (No. XXIII) in 1847,’
binding themselves to prohibit the exportation of slaves from the African'
coast, or elsewhere, in vessels belonging to themselves or their subjects,
and authorizing British cruisers to confiscate vessels found engaged in
the forbidden traffic. In 1856 the Trucial Chiefs signed an Agreement
similar to that concluded with the Chief of Bahrein (No. IX).
The treaty concluded with the maritime Arab Chiefs in 1820 did not
limit the right of the Chiefs to carry on acknowledged war with each
other by sea, that is to say, war proclaimed and avowed by one Chief
upon another. All other hostile aggressions, however, were declared to
be piratical. But under the name of acknowledged war many acts of
piracy were committed, especially during the pearl-fishing season. The
Chiefs were therefore induced in 1835 to bind themselves, by a maritime
truce, not in any circumstances to engage in hostilities by sea for a period
of six months, on the understanding that the British Government would
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not interfere with their wars by land. The effects of this truce were so
iff a Chiefs were easilv persuaded in the following year, and
their territories,