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'Treaties and Undertakings in Force between the British Government and the Sultans of Maskat [Muscat] and Oman, 1845-1914' [45r] (101/190)
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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pursue commerce and trade, whether wholesale or retail, in each other's
dominions and therein to hire, purchase and possess houses, warehouses, shops,
stores and lands. British subjects shall everywhere he freely permitted,
whether personally or by agent to bargain for, buy barter and sell all kind of
goods, articles of import or 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.
His Highness the Sultan of Muscat binds himself not to allow or recognise
the establishment of any kind of monopoly or exclusive privilege of trade
within his dominions to any Government, Association or individual.
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Article 5.
Subjects of Her Britannic Majesty shall be 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
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Highness 's
descrijDtion, imported by sea from
dominions. This 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.
This 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 elsewhere in bulk or otherwise, and whether they remain in the
state in which they are imported or have been manufactured.
There shall, however, be exempted 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 await 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 bo 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 port as originally declared, within a
period not exceeding six months after their first landing and without 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 frcm the custody of the Customs authorities, the lull
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 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)
- Arrangement
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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- IOR/R/15/1/737
- Title
- 'Treaties and Undertakings in Force between the British Government and the Sultans of Maskat [Muscat] and Oman, 1845-1914'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:36v, ii-r:ii-v, back-i, front, front-i, 38r:88v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence