The Sultan identified islands associated with the 1878 arrangement. The published text records an additional annual payment of 300 dollars and arrears for past occupation.
The islands required a further agreement
Twenty-five years after the first grant, the Company returned to the Sultan over offshore islands. The document identifies the islands and provides an additional annual sum. Its importance lies in the continuing contractual relationship and the need to define the earlier arrangement’s geographical reach.
Why this record matters
The English copy uses cession terminology and records the Company returning to the Sultan to formalise the islands’ status, with an additional annual payment of 300 dollars.
Sources & further reading
Sabah State Attorney-General’s Chambers
Confirmation by Sultan of Sulu of Cession of Certain Islands, 22 April 1903; English reading copy.