"رقم ٤١٣، مجلد ١٩. المعاهدة التجارية المعدلة مع مسقط" [ظ‎‎٢‎٤] (٣٦٠/٥٦)

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ed or removed from the custody of the
Customs authorities, the full duty shall
then be payable on the same.
3. Coals, naval provisions, stores and
fittings, the property of Her Majesty's
Government, landed in the dominions
of His Highness for the use of the ships
of Her Majesty's Navy.
4. All goods and merchandize tran
shipped or landed for the repair of
damage caused by stress of weather or
other disasters at sea, provided the cargo
so discharged shall be re-shipped and
taken away onboard of the same vessel,
or if the latter shall have been con
demned, or her departure delayed, in
any other.
Article VIII
It is agreed and understood by the
high contracting parties that, in the
event of an arrangement being entered
into hereafter between His Highness
and the Powers having treaty relations
with Muscat, and to which Great Bri
tain shall be a consenting party, where
by vessels entering the port of Muscat
shall be charged with shipping, tonnage
or harbour dues, such dues to be admin
istered under the control of a special
board for the improvement of the har
bour and construction and maintenance
of lighthouses, &c., nothing in the afore
mentioned provisions shall be construed
so as to exempt British vessels from
payment of such shipping, harbour, or
tonnage dues as may hereafter be agreed
upon.
Article WH: . /j *
It shall be at the option of the Bri
tish subject in each case to pay the per
centage duties stipulated in Article VI
either in cash or, if the nature of the
goods allow of it, in kind, by giving up
an equivalent amount of the goods or
produce.
In the event of payment being made
in cash, the value of the merchandize,
goods or produce on which duty is to
be levied shall be fixed according to the
ready-money market price ruling at the
time when the duty is levied. In the
case of foreign imports the value shall
be fixed according to the market price
at Muscat, and in that of native goods
and produce by the market price at the
place where the merchant shall choose
to pay the duty.
In the event of any dispute arising
between a British subject and the Cus
tom house authorities regarding the