 However, the prime underlying motive behind these reforms were to reduce British influence in the Persian Gulf.After these decisions were written into a bill by the Council of Ministers, Sultan Abdul Hamid II, having received the bill on 13 January 1890, signed it into effect on 2 February 1890.By 1890 news had broke about the newly commissioned project by the Ottomans to rebuild Khawr al Udayd.