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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 afore 
said 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.