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'Treaties and Undertakings in Force between the British Government and the Sultans of Maskat [Muscat] and Oman, 1845-1914' [80r] (171/190)
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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ARTICLE 13.
(1) The Consular authorities of His Majesty in the
territories of the Sultan shall, subject to ?ny right of.
appeal which His Majesty may provide, try and determine—
(i) all criminal charges against nationals of
His Majesty;
(ii) all civil suits in which nationals of His
Majesty are defendants;
(iii) all"bankruptcy cases in which the bankrupt
or the person whom it is sought to make
bankrupt is a national of His Majesty;
(iv) all proceedings connected v/ith administration
of the estate of a deceased national of His
Majesty;
(v) all questions of personal status where the
person whose status is in question is a
national of His Majesty, always provided
that where such pereon is a Moslem the
Consular authorities m^y remit the case for
decision by a Moslem religious court of the
Sultan on such conditions as they may
determine and shall so remit the case if
any other party to the proceedings is a
national of the Sultan.
(2) All criminal or civil cases in which a national
of His Majesty is complainant or plaintiff and the accused
or defendant is a national of the Sultan or a national of a
third country shall be tried and determined by the courts of
the Sultan. 'The national of His Majesty shall have a right
of appeal to the Sultan, in accordance with the procedure
prescribed in the Omani courts, against any decision given
against him in any such case if the Consul of His Majesty
shall so request. If the Sultan should be absent the appellant
may, if he so desires, ask that his appeal may be heard by «
the Sultan's representative.
(3) A national of His Majesty shall not be arrested
nor his property seized, nor his house, office, warehouse or
other premises occupied by him entered and searched without
his consent, by an officer of the Sultan save under an order
signed by the Consul of His Majesty, and any national of His
Majesty arrested and any property of a national of His
Majesty seized shall be placed in the custody of the Consul
of His Majesty; alv/ays provided that, in case of necessity
for the prevention of breaches of the peace or a breach of a
law or regulation of the Sultan which has been made applicable
to nationals of His Majesty under Article 15, the authorities
of 'the Sultan may without such an order arrest a national of
His Majesty or take charge of his property or enter and
search his house, office, warehouse or other premises occupied
by him, but in this case the proceedings shall be at once
reported, and the person arrested and any property seized
handed over without delay, to the Consul of His Majesty.
ARTICLE 14.
I
In the exercise of their respective jurisdictions
under paragraphs (1) and (2) of Article 13, the authorities
of the Sultan and the Consular authorities of His Majesty
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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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence