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is a slave or to employ any person as a slave against his will or to continue to hold
in slavery any person previously a slave.
4. It is an offence to buy, sell, import, export, give, receive as a gift or in any
way dispose of or be a party to the disposal of any person as a slave or any person
whom by that transaction it is intended should become a slave.
5. No Court established under our jurisdiction shall, after the 10th day of
April 1952 (corresponding with 16th Rajab 1371) entertain any civil suit in which
any claim is made or obligation alleged on the grounds that one of the parties is a
slave.
6. Any person committing an offence under this proclamation shall be
punished.

APPENDIX F
(Paragraph 66)
Proclamation Prohibiting Traffic in Arms—1916

Be it known to all who may see this: —
Whereas it has become known to us that traffic in arms into British India,
Persia, Kuwait, Bahrain and the Trucial Coast is prohibited,
1, the undersigned, ’Abdullah bin Jasim bin Thani, Shaikh of Qatar, have
decided to do all in my power to assist the British Government in putting a stop
to this illegal traffic, and I hereby declare that, from the date of this proclamation,
the importation and sale of arms, cartridges, and all munitions, into our territory,
and the exportation of the same to other places, are absolutely prohibited. All
arms and ammunition, imported into Qatar territory or exported therefrom, will,
in future, be liable to seizure and confiscation.
(Signed) ABDULLAH BIN JASIM AL THANI,
Chief of Qatar.

APPENDIX G
Licence Granted by the Ruler of Qatar to Cable and Wireless Ltd.—1951
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(Paragraph 71)
Agreement between the Ruler of Qatar and Cable and Wireless Ltd. dated
January 11 1951
This deed made the eleventh day of January 1951 between His Excellency
Shaikh Ali bin Abdulla al Thani, Ruler of Qatar (hereinafter referred to as “ His
Excellency ”) of the one part (acting in the exercise of his powers as head of the
Government of Qatar) and Cable and Wireless Limited, a company incorporated
in -England whose registered offices aie situated at Electra House, Victoria
Embankment, in the City of Westminster (hereinafter called “ the Company ”) of
the other part,
Witnesseth as follows: —
1. His Excellency hereby grants unto the Company for a period of twenty
years from the date of the signing of this deed—the Company having the option
of renewal for a further period after consultation with His Excellency—licence
and permission—
(a) to establish, maintain and operate telecommunication services between
Qatar and points outside His Excellency’s dominions and services with
aircraft and ships at sea and for that purpose to install, maintain and
work a telegraph station or stations and any additions thereto.