IOR/L/PS/10/74/1

Part 1 of the file relates to the 1905 revision of the treaty with Shaif bin Sef bin Abdul Hadi bin Hasan [Shā’if ibn Sayf al-‘Amirī], Amir of Dthala (also sometimes written Dthali) [al-Ḍāli‘].

The correspondents include:

• Major-General Pelham James Maitland (later Henry Macan Mason), Political Resident at Aden;
• Colonel R A Wahab, Aden Boundary Commissioner;
• Government of India, Foreign Department;
• Government of Bombay, Political Department;
• India Office, London;
• Foreign Office, London;
• Major W Merewether, Political Officer at Dthala.

The correspondence discusses a number of matters integral to the new treaty, including:

• the deployment of a permanent Political Officer in Dthala;
• the need for an Arab levy to patrol the frontier with Ottoman Turkish territory;
• increasing the Amir's stipend and granting him a gun salute;
• relations between the Amir and the Kotaibi tribe.

Folio 382 is the revised treaty, signed 28 November 1905 (ratified 8 February 1905).