ARTICLE 2.

Sultan Ali bin Mani, the Haushabi, his heirs and successors, will not be permitted to place under cultivation more than 300 acres of land in the vicinity of Zaida.

ARTICLE 3.

If the Resident sees that the fields of the Lahej district have suffered on account of waste of water caused by Sultan Ali bin Mani, the Haushabi, he will adopt proper measures towards it.

This agreement is concluded and agreed to on Thursday, this 5th day of May in the year of our Lord 1881, corresponding with the 7th day of Jomad. al-Akhir, 1298 al-Hijra.

In witness whereof we have settled our hand and seal.

Signed and sealed on the 14th July 1881 in the presence of

(Sd.) FRANCIS LOCH, Brigadier-General,

No. XLI.

THE SUBAIHI AGREEMENT.

AGREEMENT entered into by the ABDALI, placing the SUBAIHI under their control-1881.

In the name of the Most Merciful God!

As a further proof of the friendship existing between the British Government and the Sultan of Lahej, at present Fadthl bin Ali Mohsin Fadthl Al-Abdali, assisted by his uncle Mohammed Mohsin and the other descendants of the late Mohsin Fadthl, and in order that the power, authority, and greatness of the Abdali may be increased, therefore Brigadier-General Francis Loch, C.B., Political Resident at Aden, being duly authorised on behalf of the British Government, doth hereby covenant with the aforesaid Fadth bin Ali Mohsin Fadthl Al-Abdali, Sultan of Lahej, on behalf of himself, that the Abdali Sultans and their heirs and successors shall hereafter be acknowledged as exercising sovereign authority over the territory occupied by all the tribes of the Subaihi, and including the Mansuri, Makhdumi, Rujai and Dubaini, which three former are at present stipendiaries of the British Government, but excluding such as at present acknowledge Turkish supremacy.

As another proof in furtherance of the foregoing object, Sultan Fadthl bin Ali Mohsin Fadthl Al-Abdali hereby binds himself, his heirs and successors to observe the following conditions:

ARTICLE 1.

As soon as the said Sultan Fadthl bin Ali Mohsin Fadthl-al-Abdali shall sign this agreement, he engages to be responsible for all acts of plunder or outrages of any kind whenever committed by the Subaihi, and binds himself to make immediate and complete restoration or compensation in such cases for all wounds or loss of lives or property.

ARTICLE 2.

No treaty or agreement of any kind is to be entered into with any other State for the sale, mortgage, lease, or hire or gift of any portion of the territory now or hereafter subject to the authority of the Sultans of the Abdali without the consent of the British Government.

ARTICLE 3.

No forts or buildings are to be erected on the sea-coast without the permission of the Resident at Aden. Nor are arms, ammunition, slaves, merchandise, spirituous liquors or intoxicating drugs to be landed or embarked at any part of the coast without the sanction of the Resident being previously obtained.

ARTICLE 4.

No new taxes to be levied by the Abdali on goods passing through the Subaihi territory to Aden, nor are the Subaihi to be allowed to levy any taxes on their own account.

ARTICLE 5.

If one or more Subaihis commit outrages on the road, and the Sultan of the Abdali fail to exact the booty from them on account of their having taken refuge in Turkish territory, the Abdali Sultan will not be responsible for such people after doing his utmost in recovering the booty and in arresting the plunderers.

So long as the foregoing stipulations are complied with by the Sultans of the Abdali, the British Government will make guarantee the following arrangements and concessions:

ARTICLE 1.

The stipend at present paid to the Makhdumi, Mansuri, Rujai and Dubaini will be handed over to the Abdali Sultan.

ARTICLE 2.

No Subaihi will be received or entertained at Aden as guests of the British Government, unless a letter of recommendation be procured from the Sultan of Lahej.

ARTICLE 3.

The Resident binds himself not to allow Sultan Ali bin Mani, the Haushabi, to divert kafillas from their customary road, which leads through Al-Hauta or the Abdali territory.

This agreement is concluded and agreed to on Thursday, the 5th day of May, in the year of Our Lord 1881, corresponding with the 7th day of Jomadal-Akhir, 1298 Al-Hijri.

In witness whereof we have settled our hand and seal.

Signed by MOHAMMED MOHSIN FADTHL for himself and SULTAN FADTHL BIN ALI MOHSIN,

This agreement was ratified by His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor General of India at Calcutta on the twenty-first day of January A.D. one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.

(Sd.) CHARLES GRANT,

Secretary to the Government of India,

Foreign Department.

No. XLII.

AGREEMENT with the ABDALI SULTAN for the purchase of SHAIKH 'OTHMAN, etc.-1882.

Articles of a treaty existing between Sultan Fadtbl bin 'Ali Mohsin Fadthl-al-'Abdali, Sultan of Lahej and its dependencies, on behalf of himself, his uncles and his and their heirs and successors, on the one part, and MajorGeneral Francis Loch, Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath and Political Resident at Aden, on behalf of the Government of India, on the other part.

Whereas by Article V of a treaty concluded on the 7th March 1849 between Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Captain in the Indian Navy and Political Agent at Aden, on behalf of the Government of India, and Sultan 'Ali Mohsin Fadthl, on behalf of himself, his heirs and successors, it was agreed that the bridge of Khor Maksar and the plain between it and the mountains of Aden, forming the Isthmus, are British property and no further north; and whereas a sum of dollars (541) five hundred and forty-one is under the beforementioned treaty payable monthly to the said Sultan Ali Mohsin Fadth, his heirs and successors, so long as he or they continue to act with sincerity, truth and friendship, towards the British, and adhere strictly to the terms of the aforesaid treaty; and whereas Sultan Fadthl bin 'Ali Mohsin Fadth for himself, his uncles and his and their heirs and successors, has agreed to sell to the British Government for a sum of dollars (25,000) twenty-five thousand only and an increase, to the present subsidy of dollars (541) five hundred and fortyone, of dollars (1,100) one thousand and one hundred per mensem, of which (600) six hundred are for the profit of water and (500) five hundred for that of salt, making in all dollars (1,641) one thousand six hundred and forty-one per mensem, all that (tract of) land lying to the north of the peninsula of Aden, and bounded by a line commencing from a point on the sea-shore one and five-sixteenths of a mile due east of the north end of the Khor Maksar causeway and running north-east by north seven and a quarter miles to a point on the coast line. From hence the boundary passes from the sea westward three and a quarter miles to a point near Inad. From this point the boundary line, after passing through an imaginary point one mile north of the Wali of Shaikh 'Othman, extends to a mark on the bank of the Wadi Tcban situated one mile inland. From this point the boundary runs southsouth-west to the sea.

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ARTICLE 1.

This therefore witnesseth that the said Sultan Fadthl bin 'Ali Mohsin Fadthl, in pursuance of the conditions of this treaty and in consideration of the sum of dollars (25,000) twenty-five thousand already received and the monthly increase of the subsidy of dollars (1,100) one thousand one hundred agreed to be paid to him by the British Government, doth hereby for himself, his uncles and his and their heirs and successors, cede and confirm unto the (hands of the) said British Government all that portion of territory as herein above described, to be retained by the said British Government for ever as a part of its territories; and the said Sultan Fadth bin 'Ali Mohsin Fadthl does further bind himself, his uncles and his and their heirs and successors, to make no claim hereafter on the said tracts of land or any revenue derived from them.

ARTICLE 2.

And the said Major-General Francis Loch, C.B., Political Resident of Aden, being duly authorized does hereby solemnly promise in the name of His Excellency the Governor General in Council to pay to the said Sultan Fadthl bin 'Ali Mohsin Fadthl, his heirs and successors, the sum of dollars (1,641) one thousand six hundred and forty-one made up as aforesaid per mensem.

ARTICLE 3.

And the said Sultan Fadthl bin 'Ali Mohsin Fadth on the one part and the said Major-General Francis Loch, C. B., Political Resident at Aden, being duly authorised on the other part, do declare that the convention made and signed on the 7th day of March 1867 in regard to the aqueduct between Shaikh 'Othman and Aden by Sultan Fadthl Mohsin Fadth on the one part and Lieutenant-Colonel W. L. Merewether, Political Resident at Aden, on the other part, is hereby cancelled.

ARTICLE 4.

So long as the Sultan of Lahej possesses the right to levy the taxes on goods entering Aden by land as heretofore, he will be permitted to collect his dues as at present (he is doing) in British territory at the rates mentioned in the treaty of 1849.

ARTICLE 5.

If any soldier of the Sultan of Lahej escape to British territory, and he is required by the Sultan, the Resident will send him; and in the same manner if any of the Sultan's subjects, after committing an heinous offence of the kind for which the British Government is accustomed under similar circumstances to grant extradition, takes refuge in Shaikh 'Othman, Imad or Aden, and is required by the Sultan, and if there is reasonable ground for believing that he has committed the offence, the Resident will also send him back; and the Sultan agrees on his part to send back British soldiers or subjects who escape to Lahej or its territory from Aden or its dependencies if their extradi tion be demanded.