No. 14.-TREATY with the Arab Tribes, dated the 8th

January, 1820.

Translation of the General Treaty with the Arab Tribes of the Persian Gulph.

In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate: Praise be to God, who hath ordained Peace to be a blessing to his creatures. There is established a lasting Peace between the British Government and the Arab Tribes, who are Parties to the Contract, on the following conditions:

I. There shall be a cessation of Plunder and Piracy, by Land and Sea, on the part of the Arabs, who are Parties to the Contract, for

ever.

II. If any individual of the People of the Arabs contracting, shall attack any that pass by Land or Sea, of any Nation whatsoever, in the way of Plunder and Piracy, and not of acknowledged War, he shall be accounted an enemy of all mankind, and shall be held to have forfeited both life and goods; and acknowledged War is that which is proclaimed, avowed, and ordered by Government against Government, and the killing of Men and taking of Goods without Proclamation, avowal, and the order of Government, is Plunder and Piracy.

III. The friendly (literally the pacificated) Arabs shall carry by Land and Sea a red Flag, with or without letters in it, at their option; and this shall be in a border of white, the breadth of the white in the border being equal to the breadth of the red, as represented in the margin, the whole forming the Flag known in the British Navy by the title of "White pierced red ;" and this shall be the Flag of the friendly Arabs, and they shall use it and no other.

IV. The pacificated Tribes shall all of them continue in their former relations, with the exception that they shall be at peace with the British Government, and shall not fight with each other, and the Flag shall be a symbol of this only, and of nothing further.

V. The Vessels of the friendly Arabs shall all of them have in their possession a Paper (Register), signed with the signature of their Chief, in which shall be the name of the Vessel, its length, its breadth, and how many Karahs it holds; and they shall also have in their possession another Writing (Port Clearance), signed with the signature of their Chief, in which shall be the name of the Owner, the name of the Nackodah, the number of Men, the number of Arms, from whence

sailed, at what time, and to what Port bound; and if a British or other Vessel meets them, they shall produce their register and the clearance.

VI. The friendly Arabs, if they choose, shall send an Envoy to the British Residency in the Persian Gulph, with the necessary accompaniments, and he shall remain there for the transaction of their business; and the Residency and the British Government, if it chooses, shall send an Envoy also to them in like manner, and the Envoy shall add his signature to the signature of the Chief in the Paper (Register) of their Vessels, which contains the length of the Vessel, its breadth and tonnage: the signature of the Envoy to be renewed every year. Also all such Envoys shall be at the expence of their own Party.

VII. If any Tribe, or others, shall not desist from Plunder and Piracy, the friendly Arabs shall act against them according to their ability and circumstances; and an arrangement for this purpose shall take place between the friendly Arabs and the British, at the time when such Plunder and Piracy shall occur.

VIII. The putting Men to death, after they have given up their arms, is an act of Piracy and not of acknowledged War: or if any Tribe shall put to death any Persons, either Mahomedans or others, after they have given up their arms, such Tribe shall be held to have broken the Peace, and the friendly Arabs shall act against them in conjunction with the British; and, God willing, the War against them shall not cease, until the surrender of those who performed the act, and of those who ordered it.

IX. The carrying off of Slaves, men, women, or children, from the Coasts of Africa, or elsewhere, and the transporting them in Vessels, is Plunder and Piracy, and the friendly Arabs shall do nothing of this

nature.

X. The Vessels of the friendly Arabs bearing their 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. End of the Articles.

Issued at Rasul Khyma, in triplicate, at mid-day, on Saturday, the 22nd of the month of Rebi-al-Anowal, in the year of the Hejira 1235 (corresponding to the 8th of January, 1820), and signed by the Contracting Parties.

No. 15.-TREATY with the Regency of Sawunt Warree, dated the 17th February, 1820.

ARTICLES of Agreement stipulated and agreed upon between the Hon. East India Company, and the Regency of Sawunt Warree, on the part of Rajah Khaim Sawunt Bhonsla Behauder Sur Dayshaee, of Condaul and its Dependencies:

Settled by Captain Gideon Hutchinson, in charge of the Political Duties, on the part of the British Government, and by Rajah Khaim Sawunt Bhonsla Behauder, on the part of the Government of Sawunt Warree, by virtue of Full Powers from the British Government, on the one part, and with the concurrence and consent of the Regency of Sawunt Warree, on the other.

I. The British Government, in token of its friendship towards the Sawunt Warree State, and to evince that it demanded the cession of the Ajgaum and Paut Districts, ceded by the Treaty concluded on the 17th February, 1819, for the sole purpose of putting an effectual stop to the depredations committed in the Hon. Company's Territories, by the Subjects of the Sawunt Warree State, does hereby restore to Rajah Khaim Sawunt Bhonsla Behauder, the Ajgaum and Paut Districts (with the exception of the Forts of Estwuntgurgh (Rairee) and Newtee, and the Villages forming the Line of the Sea Coast), and the undermentioned Villages of the Boordavee District, in perpetuity, viz.: the Inland Villages of the Ajgaum District, Ajgaum, Asoolee, Manoos, Urioundy, Tuhoanny, Terrowanny, Keenslay, and Gooldeway; the Inland Villages of the Paut District, Paut, Tayndoolee, Chandwun, and Kurnuthee; and of the Boordavee District, the Villages Wurros, Kuswun, Wussurgaum, Hussaul Koonday, Purvay, Kasurrul, and Gauree-warree-turwurdy.

II. It is expressly agreed, and it is stipulated on the part of the Regency, for and on behalf of Rajah Khaim Sawunt Bhonsla Behauder, that no person of, or belonging to the above-named Places, and others that may be hereafter given, on any account or cause whatsoever, shall be responsible, or punished for any acts committed or done by orders, or sanction, or cognizance of the Honourable Company, prior to the date of their being delivered to the possession of the Sawunt Warree State.

The above Treaty, consisting of Two Articles, was agreed to and concluded by Rajah Khaim Sawunt Bhonsla Behauder Sur Dayshaee, of Condaul and its Dependencies, with the approval of Nurbudda Baee and Saveetree Baee, at Sawunt Warree, the 17th day of February, 1820, corresponding to Thursday, the third of Rubbelaker, in the year Soorsun Ashreen Meyateenoon Aluph.

Note. The above Treaty was confirmed by the Bombay Government on the 9th March, 1820.

No. 16.-TREATY with the Ameers of Scind, dated the 9th November, 1820.

TREATY between the Hon. East India Company on the one hand, and the Ameers of Scind on the other.

The British Government and the Government of Scind, having in view to guard against the occurrence of Frontier disputes, and to strengthen the friendship already subsisting between the two States, Meer Ismael Shah was invested with Full Power to treat with the Hon. the Governor of Bombay, and the following Articles were agreed on *between the two Parties:

I. There shall be perpetual Friendship between the British Government, on the one hand, and Meer Kurreen Ali, and Meer Moorad Ali, on the other.

II. Mutual intercourse, by means of Vakeels, shall always continue between the two Governments.

III. The Ameers of Scind engage not to permit any European or American to settle in their dominions. If any of the subjects of either of the two States should establish their residence in the dominions of the other, and should conduct themselves in an orderly and peaceable manner in the Territory to which they may emigrate, they will be allowed to remain in that situation; but if such fugitives shall be guilty of any disturbance or commotion, it will be incumbent on the local authority to take the offenders into custody, and punish, or compel them to quit Country.

IV. The Ameers of Scind engage to restrain the depredations of the Khosas, and all other tribes and individuals within their limits, and to prevent the occurrence of any inroad into the British Domi

nions.

Bombay, the 9th November, 1820.

Note. The foregoing Treaty was approved by the Supreme Government on the 10th February, 1821.

No. 17.-TREATY with the Imaum of Senna, dated the 15th January, 1821.

THE following Treaty, negotiated by Capt. William Bruce, between H. H. the Imaum of Senna and the British Government, dated the 15th January, 1821, is published for general information.

The blockade of the Port of Mocha, and all the other Ports and Places belonging to the Imaum of Senna, in the Arabian Gulph, as announced by the Proclamation dated the 9th August, 1820, terminated on the conclusion of the Treaty in question, viz., the 15th January, 1821.

I. That the Resident shall have a guard of the same strength as is allowed at Bagdad, Bussora, and Bushire, of thirty men, to support his respectability.

II. That the Resident shall be exempt from all compliances degrading to the character of the Representative of the British Government. That he shall have full liberty to ride on horseback when and where he pleases have free ingress and egress to all the gates of Mocha, among others of Shaik Shadely, from which Europeans have hitherto been excluded for some years past, and shall have all the same liberty and freedom they have at Bushire, Bussora, Bagdad, and Muscat.

III. A piece of ground to be allotted for a Cemetery; and none of those under the British Government and Flag, to be spoken to, or insulted, on account of their religion.

IV. The Resident to have free permission to proceed to Senna, and communicate with H. H. the Imaum, whenever he may deem it necessary to do so, the Dola, on these occasions, furnishing a guard or escort, if it should be deemed requisite.

V. The Anchorage Duty, 400 German crowns, shall henceforth cease on British ships, which has hitherto been levied on all merchant ships when they landed cargoes. Hereafter no duty on this account shall be paid, whether cargo is landed or not, the same as His Majesty's ships and the Honourable Company's vessels of war.

VI. All Subjects of the British Government trading to Mocha, and particularly the Merchants of Surat, shall do so under the protection of the British Flag. If of the Islam faith, and wish to settle their disputes according to the Mahomedan Sharah, they shall be at liberty to do so, a person on the part of the Resident attending, and all differences among themselves shall be decided by the Resident. In the event of any of the Imaum's Subjects being concerned in the disputes, by an Agent on the part of the Resident (or himself, if he pleases), and the Governor conjointly. If the Imaum's Subject is wrong, the Governor shall punish him; if on the contrary, the Resident. Also, that all the dependents of the Factory, of every denomination, from broker downwards, shall be wholly under the protection of the British Flag, and controul of the Resident, who shall alone possess the power of punishing them, and redressing all complaints against

them.

(This Sixth Article has been expressly admitted by separate grant to Captain Bruce by His Highness the Imaum.)

VII. That the export duty on the British trade shall be hereafter two and a quarter per cent., the same as the French, and not three and a half as hitherto; and that the import duty shall be the same to the English and all their subjects; and no more shall be levied than two and a quarter per cent. upon imports and exports.

(This Article is expressly granted by separate firmans from