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Signed and scaled in my presence by the above mentioned Trucial Chiefs
on board the R. 1. M. S. Lawcnce on the 24th, 25th and 26th November 1902.
(Signed) C. A. K EM BALL, Lieutenant-Colonel,
Officiating Political Resident, Persian Gulf.
Notification.
Be it known to all that whereas it has become known to us that the traffic
inarms in British India is prohibited, and as we are of opinion that the traffic,
if continued, is likely to be prejudicial to the interests of our territories, we have,
therefore, decided to do all that lies in our power to put a stop to this illegal
traffic, and we hereby declare that from the date of this notification the importation
of arms and ammunition into our respective territories and the exportation of the
same are absolutely prohibited.
All arms and ammunition so imported or exported in future will be seized
and confiscated.
From Lieutenant Colonel Kemball, Officiating Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.
“ After compliments,—With reference to the agreement into which you have entered
Shwfih
prohibiting the traffic of arms at AJwan I write to inform you that upon your repre-
UnwNKow«lo
Abu Whahl'
senting the matter to me you will be permitted to import trms and ammunition yourself io
such quantities as you consider advisable for the protection of your own territories.”
82. Major Cox also issued a notification at Maskat and reported that the
Sultan had issued a similar notification to his subjects : —

Notification.
Dated Maskat, the gth December 1904.
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Whereas the Sheikhs of the Pirate Coast, namely Abu Thabi, Debai,
Shargah, Ras-el-Khamia, Um-el-Kowain and Ajwan have notified a prohibition
against the importation of arms and ammunition into their respective territories,
this is to warn all British and British-protected subjects that any arms or ammuni­
tion that may be found in process of export to the abovementioned territories
will be liable to confisaation.
(Sd.) P. Z. COX, Major,
His Britannic Majesty's Consul, Maskat,
Landing of a cargo of arms and ammunition at Hasina, a small port
near Lingah. Sources from which the Arab and Baharlao tribes
obtain their supplies of arms, 1903.
83. The Political Resident in the Persian Gulf writing on the 21st July
1903, reported that he had recently receiv-
Secret E., October 1903, Nos. 4a—46
ed a letter from the Agent at Lingah,
informing him that a cargo of 400 Martini-Henry rifles, with some revolvers and
ammunition, had been landed about the middle of May at a place called Hasina,
a small port not far from Lingah. The Agent had been asked to make enquiries
as tojihe destination of these arms. His report is interesting as showing one of
the sources from which the Arab and Baharloo tribes obtain their arms.
il I have made enquiries from which it appears that some of the residents of Lar and
Gerash who are by profession traders, come to Lingah and buy there bills in dollars on
Maslcat for large sums. Their business relates to buying rifles, and for that purpose they
go personally to Maskat. After buying arms they ship them in sailing vessels v hich land
them at the Shib Kub ports. 1 heir principal object is to sell arms to the Boharlao and
Arab tribes who live round about Shiraz, in the dependencies of La-, and at Gerash and
Jehroom. Whenever the Chiefs of Shib Kuh and the Khans of Lar and the subordinate
districts want them, they sell to them also, as their business is trade, but their chief object