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File 2902/1916 ‘Treaties and Engagements between the British Government and the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’ [‎97r] (204/448)

The record is made up of 1 volume (222 folios). It was created in 1916-1928. It was written in English, Arabic and Persian. 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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pursue commerce and trade, whether wholesale or retail, in each other’s
stores 1 'and ther ^ D t . o llire > Purchase and possess houses, warehouses, shops,
1 d ii Brit ?: sh sub J ec ts shall everywhere he freely permitted,
whether personally or by agent to bargain for, buy barter and sell ail kind of
Fi?f i a l‘ tlc cs 0 l ^ native production, whether intended for sale within
the dominions of His Highness or for export and to arrange with the owner
or his agent regarding the price of all such goods and produce without inter
ference of any sort on the part of the authority of His Highness.
,, Highness the Sultan of Muscat binds himself not to allow or recognise
the establishment of any kind of monopoly or exclusive privilege of trade
v it Inn his dominions to any Government, Association or individual.
Article 5.
Subjecis of Her Britannic Majesty shall he permitted throughout the
dominions of His Highness the Sultan, to acquire by Gift, purchase intestate
succession or under will, or any other legal manner, land houses and property
of every description, whether moveable or immoveable, to possess the same •
and freely to dispose thereof by sale, barter, donation, or otherwise.
Article 6 .
His Highness the Sultan shall be permitted to levy a duty of entry net
exceeding 5 per cent, on the value of all goods and merchandise, of whatever
description, imported by sea from Foreign countries into His Highness’s
dominions. Ibis duty shall be paid at the port in His Highness’s dominions
where the goods are first landed, and, on payment thereof, such goods shall
thereafter be exempt, within the Sultan’s dominions, from all other custom
duties or taxes, levied by, or on behalf of, the Government of His Highness
the Sultan, by whatever names these may be designated, and no higher import
duty shall be claimed from British subjects than that which is paid by subjects
or citizens of the most favoured nation.
Phis duty once paid shall cover from all other charges on the part of His
Highness the Sultan, goods of whatever description coming from foreign
countries by sea, whether these are intended for local consumption or for
transmission elsewdiere in bulk or otherwise, and whether they remain in the
state in which they are imported or have been manufactured.
There shall, ho’wever, he exemjited from payment of all duty the following,
namely :—
(1) All goods and merchandise which, being destined for a foreign port,
are transhipped from one vessel to another in any of the ports of His Highness
the Sultan of Muscat or which have been for this purpose provisionally landed
and deposited in any of the Sultan’s Custom houses to aw r ait the arrival of a
vessel in which to be re-shipped abroad. But goods and merchandise so landed
shall be exempted only, provided that the consignee or his agent shall have,
on the arrival of the ship, handed over the said goods to be kept under Customs
seal and declared them as landed for transhipment, designating at the same
time the foreign port of destination and also provided that the said goods are
actually shipped for the said foreign j)ort as originally declared, within a
period not exceeding six months after their first landing and w ithout having,
in the interval, changed owners.
(2) All goods and merchandise which, not being consigned to a port
within the dominions of the Sultan, have been inadvertently landed, provided
that such goods are re-shipped within a month of being so landed and trans
ported abroad. Should however, such goods or merchandise, here spoken of,
be opened 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.
(i) All goods and merchandise transhipped or landed for the repair of
damage caused by stress of weather or other disasters at sea, provided the cargo

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The volume consists mainly of six bound compilations of treaties and undertakings, together with related correspondence and other supplementary material, made between the British Government and the British Protectorates of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , 1820-1919. These treaty compilations were published by the Government of India in 1919 and comprise: the Trucial Treaties to January 1906, Treaties with Rulers of Kuwait from 1841 to 1913, Treaties with the Sultan of Oman and Muscat from 1845 to 1914, Undertakings with the Trucial Chiefs of Oman from 1911 to 1912, Treaties with the Shaikh of Mohammerah from 1899 to 1919 and Treaties with the Rulers of Bahrain from 1820 to 1914. In addition, there is a separate Foreign Office ‘Memorandum on British Commitments (During the War) to the Gulf Chiefs’ made in 1916, which contains at Appendix A, the English text of the treaty made with the Ruler of Qatar in 1916. The treaty compilations are published in English and Arabic, except for the treaties with the Shaikh of Mohammerah, which are published in English and Persian.

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1 volume (222 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 2902 (Treaties and Engagements between the British Government and the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ) consists of one volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 216; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the two leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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English, Arabic and Persian in Latin and Arabic script
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File 2902/1916 ‘Treaties and Engagements between the British Government and the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’ [‎97r] (204/448), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/606, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100038130333.0x000005> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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