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APPENDIX I
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Translation of Agreement signed by the Chief of Bahrain,
dated 22 December 18801

I, Isa bin Ali Al-Khalifch, Chief of Bahrein, hereby bind myself and suc­
cessors in the Government of Bahrein to the British Government to abstain
from entering into negotiations or making treaties of any sort with any
State or Government other than the British without the consent of the said
British Government, and to refuse permission to any other Government i
than the British to establish diplomatic or consular agencies or coaling
depots in our territory, unless with the consent of the British Government.
This engagement does not apply to or affect the customary friendly
correspondence with the local authorities of neighbouring States on business
of minor importance.
The above Agreement is subject to the approval and acceptance of His
Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council. :
Isa bin Ali !
Ahmad bin Ali
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Signed and sealed at Bahrein on the twenty-second day of December one
thousand eight hundred and eighty in my presence.
E. C. Ross, Lieut-Col.,
Political Resident, Persian Gulf
The above Agreement was accepted and ratified by Her Britannic !
Majesty’s Government in 1881.
E. C. Ross, Colonel,
Political Resident, Persian Gulf \

APPENDIX II
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Exclusive Agreement of the Shaikh of Bahrain with the
British Government dated 13 March 18922 :

I Esau bin Ali, Chief of Bahrein, in the presence of Lieutenant-Colonel
A. C. Talbot, C.I.E., Political Resident, Persian Gulf, do hereby solemnly '
bind myself and agree, on behalf of myself, my heirs and successors, to the :
following conditions, viz.:—
1st.—That I will on no account enter into any agreement or corre­
spondence with any Power other than the British Government.
2nd.—That without the assent of the British Government, I will not
1 Aitchison, p. 237. 3 Ibid., p. 238.