Primary sources & scholarship
Historical texts, parliamentary records, maps and scholarship behind the Sulu case. Each title opens the original text or repository directly.
Office of the President of the Philippines · LawPhil
Memorandum Order No. 427, 10 May 1974, preamble and coordinating committee provisions.
Executive order
Philippine government text; reading copy supplied by LawPhil.
Royal Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo
Royal House of Sulu, ‘History of Sulu’, concluding account of the 1974 and 2012 ceremonies.
Royal House institutional history
Linked institutional account; not reproduced as a public-domain publication.
High Court of the State of North Borneo · scan hosted by Sulu Arbitration
Dayang Dayang Haji Piandao Kiram and eight others v. the Government of North Borneo and others, Civil Suit No. 169/39, 18 December 1939, opening page.
Historical judicial decision
Historical court text; scanned reading copy credited to its host, Sulu Arbitration.
The National Archives, Kew · reproduction via Wikimedia Commons
National Archives catalogue C2706496; reproduction uploaded by Danazach, 18 May 2022.
Manuscript reproduction
Reproduction credited to Danazach / The National Archives, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. The published image is 402 × 620 pixels and has not been reconstructed.
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka Brunei · Wikimedia Commons
Perpuspaan, August 1968, pp. 18–19; microfilm credited to the Public Record Office, London.
Manuscript reproduction
Public-domain designation on Wikimedia Commons. Reproduction from the 1968 publication; original document dated 1878.
Sulu Arbitration · published exhibit C-14
Exhibit C-14, Malay transliteration and English translation; certifications dated 19 and 25 July 2019.
Translation
Modern translation: linked for reading; not represented as public domain.
Willi · Internet Archive
Johannes Willi, The Early Relations of England with Borneo to 1805 (1922), Appendix II, pp. 137–138.
Treaty reprint
Public-domain publication, 1922.
Sabah State Attorney-General’s Chambers
Confirmation by Sultan of Sulu of Cession of Certain Islands, 22 April 1903; English reading copy.
Agreement translation
Historical instrument, official reading copy; credit Sabah State Attorney-General’s Chambers.
Sabah State Attorney-General’s Chambers
Charter granted at Westminster, 1 November 1881; official reading copy, nine pages.
Royal charter
Historical instrument, official reading copy; credit Sabah State Attorney-General’s Chambers.
Sabah State Attorney-General’s Chambers
Protocol of 1885, Madrid, 7 March 1885, particularly article III.
Protocol
Historical instrument, official reading copy; credit Sabah State Attorney-General’s Chambers.
Sabah State Attorney-General’s Chambers
Protectorate Agreement, London, 12 May 1888, preamble and articles II–III.
Agreement
Historical instrument, official reading copy; credit Sabah State Attorney-General’s Chambers.
Sabah State Attorney-General’s Chambers
Grant by Sultan of Sulu of Territories and Lands on the Mainland of the Island of Borneo, 22 January 1878, English translation.
Agreement translation
Historical instrument, official reading copy; credit Sabah State Attorney-General’s Chambers.
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Agreement of 26 June 1946, opening page reproduced in WHORM CO097 correspondence enclosure, PDF p. 17; copy cites Colonial No. 202 (1946).
Historical agreement; archival reprint enclosure
Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Australia and the Formation of Malaysia, 1961–1966, document 17, Record of Conversation Between Kimber and Tange, with editorial footnote 2; NAA A1838, TS696/17/1 part 4.
Published diplomatic record with editorial annotation
United Nations Treaty Series
Manila Accord, 31 July 1963, paragraph 12; accompanying Joint Statement, 5 August 1963, paragraph 8. UNTS vol. 550, no. 8029, pp. 348, 358.
Registered intergovernmental agreement
UN treaty publication; reproduced page credited to the United Nations.
United Nations Treaty Series
Exchange of notes constituting an agreement relating to implementation of the Manila Accord, 7 February 1966. UNTS vol. 608, no. 8809, pp. 6–8.
Registered bilateral agreement
Supreme Court of the Philippines · Lawphil reading copy
Magallona v. Ermita, G.R. No. 187167, 16 August 2011, majority decision, section ‘Statutory Claim Over Sabah under RA 5446 Retained’.
Domestic judicial decision
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
WHORM CO097, case files 500000–END, box 125; enclosure in 1988 correspondence, digital PDF p. 16.
Translation attributed to Harold Conklin; correspondence enclosure
Archival reading copy; no general republication licence asserted.
Government of Malaysia
Government of Malaysia, Sulu Case FAQ, ‘How did the claims start?’
Government account of the payment chronology
Library of Congress
Edward Stanford Ltd and British North Borneo Chartered Company. Borneo. London: Edward Stanford, 1881. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, G8033.S3 1881 .S8.
United Nations Treaty Collection
United Nations
Cambridge University Press
Library of Congress
American soldiers and natives at the gate at Jolo. Catalogue range: between ca. 1885 and 1925. Library of Congress, item 2006679831, digital resource cph.3a51614.
Bureau of Printing, Manila · Project Gutenberg
Najeeb M. Saleeby, The History of Sulu (Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1908), royal genealogies and pp. 161–164, 225–226. Project Gutenberg, ebook 41771.
Historical compilation; includes documentary reprints
Public domain in the USA, as identified by Project Gutenberg. Its ebook distribution terms apply; consult the catalogue for other jurisdictions.
Government Printing Department, Singapore · Project Gutenberg
W. H. Treacher, British Borneo: Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo (Singapore: Government Printing Department, 1891), chapter I, pp. 4–5, and chapter VII, pp. 92–103.
Colonial participant’s historical account
Public domain in the USA, as identified by Project Gutenberg. The ebook includes Project Gutenberg distribution terms.
UK Parliament · Historic Hansard
HL Deb, 13 March 1882, vol. 267, cols. 708–724, ‘British North Borneo Company (Charter).—Observations’; Earl Granville, cols. 715–717; Earl of Carnarvon, col. 721.
Contemporary parliamentary record
Parliamentary material: see the Open Parliament Licence at parliament.uk/site-information/copyright-parliament/open-parliament-licence/. Linked here with attribution; not classified as a public-domain ebook.
NUS Press
James Francis Warren, The Sulu Zone: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State, 1768–1898, 2nd ed. (Singapore: NUS Press, 2007). ISBN 9789971693862.
Modern scholarly monograph
Copyrighted. The publisher’s description is openly accessible; the book is not presented as public domain or reproduced here.
Archipel · Persée · Murdoch University
Jim Warren, ‘The Sulu Zone: Commerce and the Evolution of a Multi-ethnic Polity, 1768–1898,’ Archipel 18 (1979), pp. 223–229. DOI: 10.3406/arch.1979.1512.
Peer-reviewed scholarship · open-access reading
Open access through the university repository; no public-domain or republication licence is asserted. The article is linked, not rehosted.
Johannes Willi · Internet Archive
Johannes Willi, The Early Relations of England with Borneo to 1805 (1922), pp. 38–40; Appendix II, pp. 137–138.
Historical study with treaty reprints
Public-domain publication (1922).
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