"We hereby submit our names: Iman Mamhud bin Sultan Benjamin, Sultan Otoman bin Sultan Mohamed, and Sultan Abu Bacher bin Sultan Alì, we acknowledge and declare, being guarantors with our people, which we are today, our tribes, our country and our subjects, who are in East Africa under the protection, command and authority of the sublime Government of Italy. We give this the rights of authority we had on the country, the inhabitants and tribes now remembered, and this in consideration of the advantages that the protection of that government gives us.
I governor (Valì) of my subjects, I accept deliberately and without hesitation, the flag of the Italian Government as a sign of his protection, and we are obliged to disallow it in our country. With any foreigner, then, that we will not keep any relationship between us, we will not ask him questions without the permission of the Italian Government.
We have written the present and confirm it, for ourselves, being in full possession of our faculties of mind and body."
Written, approved and confirmed, in Mogadishu 4th Surabaya 1308 (March 24, 1891).
Iman Mamhud - Sultan Otoman - Sultan Ab Bacher
Witnesses: Eraldo Dabbene, Agi Mahn Bin, Agi Abakerud and Sheik Mohamed Bin Jachio Ali