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APPENDIX  TO  KEPORT  FROM  SELECT  COMMITTEE

Appendix,  No.  4,  _  XIII.  The  high  contracting  parties  hereby  renew  the  agreement  entered  into  by  them
in  the  month  of  August  1851*  (Shawal  1267),  for  the  suppression  of  the  slave  trade  in  the
Persian  Gulf,  and  engage  further  that  the  said  agreement  shall  continue  in  force  after  the
date  at  which  it  expires,  that  is,  after  the  month  of  August  1862,  for  the  further  space  of
10  years,  and  for  so  long  afterwards  as  neither  of  the  high  contracting  parties  shall,  by  a
formal  declaration,  annul  it  ;  such  declaration  not  to  take  effect  untiTone  year  after  it  is
made.

PERSIAN  GULF.

Extract  Treaties,  &c.  between  Great  Britain  and  Arab  Chieftains  of  the  Persian  Gulf,
relative  to  Piracy,  the  ¡Slave  Trade,  &c.,  1820.

(Translation.)
IX.  The  carrying  off  of  slaves,  men,  women,  or  children,  from  the  coast  of  Africa
or  elsewheie,  and  the  transporting  them  in  vessels,  is  plunder  and  piracy  ;  and  the  friendly
Arabs  sh;ill  do  nothing  of  this  nature.
X.  The  vessels  of  the  friendly  Arabs  bearing  (heir  flag  above  described,  shall  enter  into
all  the  British  ports,  and  into  the  ports  of  the  allies  of  the  British,  so  far  as  they  shall  be
able  to  effect  it,  and  they  shall  buy  and  sell  therein;  and  if  any  shall  attack  "them,  the
British  Government  shall  take  notice  of  it.
XI.  These  conditions  aforesaid  shall  be  common  to  all  tribes  and  persons  who  shall
hereafter  adhere  thereto,  in  the  same  manner  as  to  those  who  adhere  to  them  at  the  time
present.
Issued  at  Bas  ul  Khyma,  in  triplicate,  at  mid-day,  on  Saturday  the  22nd  of  the
month,  of  Rebi-ul-Awal,  in  the  year  of  the  Hegira,  1235  (corresponding  to  the
8lh  of  January  1820),  and  signed  by  the  contracting  parties.  ”
W.  Grant  Keir,  Major  General.  (l.s.)  of  Arab  Chiefs.

TREATIES,  &c.  between  Great  Britain  and  Arab  Chieftains  of  the  Persian  Gulf,  relative
to  Piracy,  Slave  Trade,  &.c.—1838,  1839.*

1^0.  1.—Agreement  with  Shaikh  Sultan  Bin  Suggur,  Chief  of  Ras-ool-Khymah.—
Slave  Trade.
Shargah,  17  April  1838.
In  the  event  of  vessels  connected  with  my  ports,  or  belonging  to  my  subjects,  coming
under  the  suspicion  of  being  employed  in  the  carrying  off  (literally  “  stealing  ”)  and
embarkation  of  slaves,  men,  w<imen,  or  children,  I,  Sultan  bin  Suggur,  Shaildi  of  the
Joasmee  tribe,  do  hereby  agree  to  their  being  detained  and  searched  whenever  and  wherever
they  may  be  fallen  in  with  on  the  seas  by  the  cruisers  of  the  British  Government,  and
further,  that  upon  its  being  ascertained  that  the  crews  liave  carried  ofl‘(literally  “stolen”)
and  embarked  slaves,  their  vessels  shall  be  liable  to  seizure  and  confiscation  by  the  aforesaid ­
  cruisers.

Dated  Shargah,  17th  April  1838,  A.i).,
A.H.  1254,  Mahomed  a  mera.

correspondiug  with  the  22nd  M  oh  or  rum
(l.s.)  Sultan  bin  Suggur.

Presented  to  the  House  of  Lords,  1852  ;  and  to  the  House  of  Commons,  1856.