Leistung und Wert

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Identifikator:: 1689791993

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-102080

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Kaufmann, Paul http://d-nb.info/gnd/116074965

Title:: Leistung und Wert

Place of publication:: Würzburg

Publisher:: Memminger

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: 247 Seiten; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Das Bilanzwesen

Collection:: Economics Books

158 APPENDIX TO REPORT FROM SELECT COMMITTEE Apjiendix, * Appendix graph 4. i Appendix graph 5. § Appendix ] to Query 14. I; Appendix B; to Query 16. No. 8. ment of their diiferences in that respect to the Eight honourable the Governor General is ~ a plain avowal of the existence of their rival claims, and eifectually invalidates any such recognition unless eventually found to be in accordance with the final decision of the elected arbitrator. 23. The argument next adduced by Syud Majeed, on the ground of his bavin«- been acknowledged as sovereign by his elder brother Syud Thoweynee of Muscat, beinr^based , paia- Qjj one-sided evidence, is inadmissible. His Highness alleges* that Mahomed biii^Salem, the envoy of Syud Thoweynee, who was fully authorised to come to an understandino* with him on all public as well as private matters connected with the death of their late father, did fully recognise that Zanzibar and its African dependencies belonged of right to him ; on the other hand, Syud Thoweynee disavows that any such concession was ever authorised or made by or for him, and unhappily no documentary evidence is forthcoming to verify the assertion oí either party. For a similar reason, no satisfactory conclusion can be drawn from the contradictory statements regarding the yearly grant of forty thousand crowns which Syud Majeed agreed to pay to Syud Thoweynee, the latter aifirmino- that his agent accepted it in his behalf as tribute ; whereas Syud Majeed insists that it was criven and accepted as ^friendly gift, and on the express condition that he should be reco^ised by his brother Thoweynee as the supreme ruler of Zanzibar and its dependencies. The only two documents produced by Syud Majeed in sujjport of his assertions have already been described in paragraph 11. In the letter written by Mahomed bin Salem from Muscat to the Customs master at Zanzibar, he does, indeed, speak of the grant made by Majeed to Thoweynee as a “masaadeh ”—that is, an aid or subsidy ;f but, on the one hand, it is by no means apparent that Syud Thoweynee sanctioned such a definition of the money; and, on the other, it is just the style which Mahomed bin Salem might bo expected to adopt in writing to Zanzibar, supposing, what I believe to be now generally believed, that the said agent, in his transactions between the two brothers, had managed to deceive both parties to his own advantage. The other document—namely, Syud Majeed’s order to the customs mastei at Zanzibai to pay to his brother a “ subsidy ” of forty thousand crowns iier annum —may go a certain way to indicate what His Highness’s own views were in bestowing the grant ; but it fails to prove in any degree that Syud Thoweynee had accepted it in*^that light. His Highness, in his written statement, also alludes to a declaration which Mahomed bin Salem had drawn up, previous to quitting Zanzibar, for presentation to Syud Thoweynee on his return to Muscat. According to him it was to the foilov/in«- effect:—‘‘I, Mahomed bin Salem, ask of Majeed bin Saeed an annual subsidy of forty j, para- thousand crowns in behalf of his brother Thoweynee bin Saeed.”f No such paper is forth coming ; and the circumstances under which it is stated to have been prepared are so im probable as to throw considerable doubt on His Highness’s veracity. 24. Summing up the foregoing considerations, I am led to conclude that Syud Majeed’s claims to the independent sovereignty of Zanzibar, as based on his alleged recognition by Syud Thoweynee of Muscat, through the medium of his agent and plenipotentiary, Mahomed bin Salem, must be pronounced untenable. 25. I shall now proceed to discuss the last argument urged in behalf of Syud Maieed’s claims, namely, his election as their sovereign by the chiefs of Zanzibar and its Afriean depenÿncies. His Highness’s own statement to that effect, already quoted in pararrranh 10, IS fully confirmed by the testimony of Colonel Eigby, who believes that, if tlm suf frages of the principal chiefs were taken, the majority would undoubtedly elect Syud i, reply Majeed in preference to Syud Thoweynee.§ And again, referring to the meditated attack from Muscat in 1859, the same officer writes; W hen the invasion of the Zanzibar dominions by Syud Thoweynee was expected, the inhabitants of the Sowahili rose en masse to support Syud Majeed. Many tribes under their own chiefs came over to Zanzibar; every accessible point on the coast was occupied ; and when some of the dhows which had Syud Thoweynee’s troops on board endeavoured to procure wood and water, they were ariven from every point at which they attempted to land, and at length were oblio-ed, in consequence, to surrender to Syud Majeed’s ships-of-war. At Zanzibar the Sowahili popu lation and the natives of the Comoro Isles -were all in arms to support Syud Majeed, and I heard many of them state, as a reason for doing so, that the Muscat Arabs come here to 1 V children and carry them away as slaves. The northern Arabs are feared and . I’epiy hated, at Zanzibar. || Without attempting to analyse the causes which led to this general preference of Syud Majeed to Syud Thowyenee, there is no good reason to doubt the fact of its existence. That being the case, the question naturally arises whether such recognition of his claims validly entitles Syud Majeed to the sovereignty of Zanzibar and its African dependencies. 27. I have already pointed out (paragraph 14) that the supreme power over Oman was conferred by election, and (paragraph 3) that, in virtue of that election, his late Hio-hness Syud Saeed acquired the right of sovereignty over the African dependencies of the parent state. It does not appear, however (in fact, it is highly improbable), that the people of those dependencies enjoyed the privilege of sharing in the election of the sovereign. Up to t The distinction between the import of the Arabic terms which I have throughout expressed by the EDghshwoTd8"sub8idy"and "tribute" is most explicit. Theformerdenotesaeiftaccol-dedsoleEby the will of the giver ; the latter implies obligation, and a proof of subjection to superior authority. ^ ^

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