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'Treaties and Undertakings in Force between the British Government and the Sultans of Maskat [Muscat] and Oman, 1845-1914' [‎8v] (25/190)

The record is made up of 2 volumes (91 folios). It was created in c 1914-1932. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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No. 6.
TREATY OE FRIENDSHIP, COMMEECE AND NAVIGATION
BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND MUSCAT, 1891.
Signed at Muscat, March 19th, 1891.
Ratifications were exchanged in 1892.
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, Empress of India, and His Highness the Seyyed Eeysal bin Turki bin
Saeed, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, being desirous to confirm and strengthen
the friendly relations which now subsist between the two countries and to
promote and extend their commercial relations, have named as their plenipot
entiaries to conclude a Treaty for this purpose, that is to say :—
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, Empress of India, Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Companion of the
Star of India, Her Britannic Majesty's 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. ;
and His Highness the Sultan of Muscat in person; who had agreed upon and
concluded the following Articles :—
Article 1.
The Treaty concluded between the British Government and Sultan Seyyed
Saeed-bin-Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman on the blst May, 1839 (17
Rabia 1st, 1255), is hereby cancelled and declared void, and the present
Treaty, when ratified, shall be substituted for it.
Article 2.
Subjects of Her Britannic Majesty shall, for the purposes of this Treaty,
include subjects of Native States in India in alliance with Her Majesty, Such
subjects shall enjoy, immediately and unconditionally, throughout the dominions
of His Highness the Sultan of Muscat, with respect to commerce, shipping
and the exercise of Trade, as in every other respect, all the rights, privileges,
immunities, advantages, and protection of whatsoever nature, which are or
hereafter may be, enjoyed by, or accorded
most favoured nation.
to the subjects or citizens of the
They shall more especially not be liable to other or more onerous duties,
imposts, restrictions or obligation of whatever description, than those to which
subjecrs or citizens of the most favoured nation now are, or hereafter may bo
subjected.
Article s.
The two High Contracting Parties acknowledge reciprocally to each other
the right of appointing Consuls to reside in each other's dominions
wherever the interests of commerce may require the presence of such officers ;
and such Consuls shall at all times be placed in the country in which they
reside on the footing of the Consuls of the most favoured nations. Each of
the High Contracting Parties further agrees to permit his own subjects to be
appointed to the Consular Offices by the other Contracting Party, provided
always that the person so appointed shall not begin to act without the previous
approbation of the Sovereign whose subjects they may be. The public func
tionaries of either Government residing in the dominions of the other, shall
enjoy the same privileges, immunities, and exemptions which are enjoyed
within the same dominions by similar public functionaries of other countries.
Article 4.
There shall be perfect freedom of commerce and navigation between the
High Contracting Parties; each shall allow the subjects of the other to enter
ail ports, creeks and rivers with their vessels and cargoes, also to travel, reside,
43 f. and P. P. u
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The first volume is Treaties and Undertakings in Force between the British Government and the Sultans of Maskat [Muscat] and Oman, 1845-1914 (Government of India Foreign and Political Department). The treaties recorded cover the slave trade, Zanzibar, telegraphs, commerce, cession of territory, arms traffic, and the Sur coalfields. The texts of the treaties appear in both English and (from the rear of the volume) Arabic. A note below the title on folio 4 [folio 40 of the second volume] states that in the event of doubt arising as to the precise interpretation of any portion of one or other of the Treaty stipulations, the English text was to be considered decisive.

The second volume is a further copy of the same document. This is part of a file that also contains some loose papers. These are: text of agreement dated 28 September 1920 between the Government of Sultan Saiyid Taimur bin Faisal [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr], Sultan of Muscat and Oman and Sheikh Isa bin Salah bin Ali al-Harthi on behalf certain Omanis, signatories to the agreement; letter from Sayyid-bin-Taimur [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr] to 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. acknowledging receipt of his letter informing him of the abdication of his father and his appointment as successor as Sultan of Muscat and Oman; and transcript of treaty between the United Kingdom and Sultan Saiyid Taimur bin Faisal [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr], Sultan of Muscat and Oman, dated 5 February 1939, which replaced the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation of 1891.

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2 volumes (91 folios)
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There is a list of the treaties near the front of the volumes, on pp. 3 and 39. The list refers to the text of each treaty by means of serial and page numbers. The loose papers filed at the end of the second volume are not in chronological order.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence in use runs through both volumes. It commences at 1 on the second folio after the front outer cover of the first volume and terminates at 89 on the inside back cover of the second volume. These numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and can be found in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. A second foliation sequence is also present between ff. 37-88. These numbers are also written in pencil and circled, but have been crossed out.

Both volumes have a printed pagination sequence numbered 2-30, which is mirrored in the Arabic portion of both.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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