'Muscat Dhows Arbitration. In the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. Grant of the French Flag to Muscat Dhows. The case on behalf of the Government of His Britannic Majesty.' [‎62v] (137/208)

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VIII.—-THE ZANZIBAR. SUBSIDY.
The Zanzibar subsidy of 40,000 crowns was French Case,
awarded by Lord Canning in 1861 in settlement
of disputes between the sons of Sultan Saiwed
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as to the partition of his dominions, which, at
his death in 1856, included both Muscat and
Zanzibar. In 1873, on the conclusion with both
Muscat and Zanzibar of Treaties for suppressing
the Slave Trade, Great Britain undertook to
relieve the Sultan of Zanzibar of all liability for
the 40,000 crowns, and guaranteed payment
thereof to Sultan Saiyyed Turki, the Sultan of
Muscat, ec so long as he continued faithfully to
.fulfil his Treaty engagements and manifest his
friendship towards the British Government.
On the death of Sultan Saiyyed Turki in 1888,
difficulties arose about the succession owing to
the absence of any recognized law on the subject.
His Highness Sultan Saiyyed Peysal obtained
complete recognition as Sultan in 1890, and from
that date until ] 899 the subsidy was regularly
paid to him upon the same conditions as those
upon which it was paid to his predecessor. The
obligation of Great Britain is not, as suggested at
p. 20 of the French Case, absolute and existin":
in favour of every occupant of the Throne at
Muscat. It depends on the arrangements made
with each Sultan on his accession, and has, in
fact, been only once withheld in the circum
stances now to be stated.
The rebellion of Abduilah-bin-Saleh (referred
to in the French Case, pp. 42, 43) caused serious
loss to British-Indian subjects in Oman. The
claims for compensation in respect of losses
to British subjects, as verified by a Committee
of investigation, amounted to 77,894 dollars.
The Sultan was required to pay the amount by
quarterly instalments in three years, and
proceeded to impose a punitive tax on the
offending tribes for the purpose.
Loans had also been made by the British
Government to the Sultan in 1895 of
^0,000 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. , and in 1S97 of 60,000 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. .
At the time of the delivery to the Sultan of
the British Memorandum of the 9th February,
j -899 (styled in the French Case an Ultimatum),
large sums of money were due from the Sultan