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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎255] (297/733)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (364 folios). It was created in 1856. It was written in English. 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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TREATIES WITH MUSK AT.
255
A rticle XII.
It shall not be lawful for any British merchant to expose' his goods
for sale for the space of three days after the arrival of such goods,
unless, before the expiration of such three days, the importer and
Custom-master shall have agreed as to the value of such goods. If the
Custom-master shall not, within three days, have accepted one of the
two modes proposed for ascertaining the value of the goods, the autho
rities of His Highness the Sultan of Muskat, on application being made
to them to that effect, shall compel the Custom-master to choose one of
the two modes by which the amount of the customs to be levied is to
be determined.
A rticle XIII.
If it shall happen that either the Queen of England or His Highness
the Sultan of Muskat should be at war with another country, the
subjects of Her Britannic Majesty and the subjects of His Highness the
Sultan of Muskat shall nevertheless be allowed to pass to such country,
through the dominions of either power, with merchandize of every
description except warlike stores, but they shall not be allowed to enter
any port or place actually blockaded or besieged.
A rticle XIV.
Should a vessel under the British flag enter a port in the dominions
of His Highness the Sultan of Muskat, in distress, the local authorities
at such port shall afford all necessary aid to enable the vessel to refit
and to prosecute her voyage ; and if any such vessel should be wrecked
on the coast of the dominions of His Highness the Sultan of Muskat,
the authorities of His Highness shall give all the assistance in their
power to recover and to deliver over to the owners all the property that
can be saved from such vessel. The same assistance and protection
shall be afforded to vessels of the dominions of His Highness the Sultan
of Muskat, and property saved therefrom, under similar circumstances,
in the ports and on the coasts of the British dominions.
A rticle XV,
His Highness the Sultan of Muskat hereby renews and confirms the
Engagements enteied into by His Highness with Great Britain on the
10th'' September 1822, for the entire suppression of the slave trade
between his dominions and all Christian countries; and His Highness
further engages that the ships and vessels of war belonging to the East
India Company shall be allowed to give full force and effect to the
stipulations of the said Treaty, agreeably with the conditions prescribed
* This should be the /th and 10th September 1822,

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The volume is Selections from the records of the Bombay Government , compiled and edited by Robert Hughes Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Political Department, New Series: 24 (Bombay: Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1856).

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1 volume (364 folios)
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The volume contains an abstract of contents on p. iii, a detailed list of contents on pp. vii-xx, an alphabetical index on pp. xxi-xxvii, and a list of maps etc on p. xviii.

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Pagination: two separate pagination sequences are present in the volume. The first sequence (pp. i-xviii) commences at the first page and terminates at the list of maps (p. xviii). A second pagination sequence then takes over (pp. 1-688), commencing at the title page and terminating at the final page. Both these pagination sequences are printed, with additions in pencil, and the numbers are found at the top (left, right or centre) of each page.

The fold-outs in this volume were not paginated by the publisher. As a result, these have been foliated using the nearest page number. For example, the fold-out attached to p.51 has been numbered as 51A.

Pagination anomalies: pp. 15, 15A; 45, 45A; 49, 49A; 51, 51A; 531, 531A.

The following pages need to be folded out to be read: 15A, 45A, 51A, 327-328, 531A.

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