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'File 35/86 V A. 77 Muscat Commercial Treaty' [‎143r] (300/442)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (214 folios). It was created in 14 Apr 1938-10 Jun 1938. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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Ik 1 *
■by foreigners and said he could only accept the present
draft if the words T, tiie nationals of the Sultan or" were
deleted. This, as he said, would leave him free to impose
unlimited restrictions on all foreigners alike. He was
howeyer willing to substitute for the last four lines the
proviso at the end of Article 5 of his own draft. The
article was left for further discussion.
Article 6 (S) :
The Sultan agreed that a representative of the
Board of Trade might be invited to discuss this paragraph
y/ith him and Mr. Dulichand.
Article 14 :
The Sultan expressed a number of objections to this
Article which he said was new and created a very unwelcome
impression that there were two governments in his country.
He was quite content that British Subjects should be tried
in the Consul's Court and he was not interested in the civil
and criminal laws applied to them by the Consul. What he did
want was that British Subjects should, like his own Subjects,
be subject to municipal regulations and the like, for
example to regulations relating to curfew, prohibition
of smoking during Ramadan*, motor traffic &c. It was
explained to him that the Article was considered essential
in consequence of the surrender of the full ex-territorial
rights conferred by the existing treaty, that it was
considered necessary to provide machinery for removing any
doubt, as to the laws which were applicable to British Subjects
in Muscat, and that His Highness need have no apprehension
that regulations of the kind he referred to would not be
exhibited and enforced in the Consul 1 s Court against
British/

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Correspondence relating to the negotiations in London with the Sultan of Muscat over articles for inclusion in a new treaty 'to replace the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation signed at Muscat on the 19th March, 1891, which terminates on the 11th February, 1939.' The file includes drafts of the articles 1 to 23 with notes in the margin where the Sultan proposed a different wording. Correspondents include the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , Whitehall; Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department; and the Colonial Office, London.

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1 volume (214 folios)
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The papers are arranged chronologically from the front to the rear of the file.

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Foliation: This file has foliation numbers that begin on the front cover and end on the back cover.

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