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'No 413 Vol 19. Revised Commercial Treaty with Muscat' [149v] (310/360)
The record is made up of 1 volume (180 folios). It was created in 1 Sep 1887-26 Jun 1905. 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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dominions, and therein to hire, purchase, and possess houses, warehouses, shops,
stores, and lands, under the same conditions in all respects as subjects of their
respective countries. British subjecss shall everywhere be freely permitted
whether personally or by agent, to bargain for, buy, barter, and sell all kinds of
goods, whether articles of import or of native production, and whether intended
for sale within the dominions of His Highness the Sultan of Maskat and Oman
or for export, and to arrange with the owner or his agent regarding the price
oi all such goods and produce without interference of any sort on 'the part of
the authorities of His Highness.
His Highness the Sultan binds himself not to allow or recognise tho
establishment of any kind of monopoly or exclusive privilege of trade within
his dominions in favour of any Government, Association or individual.
A rticle Y.
British subjects shall be permitted, throughout the dominions of His
Highness the Sultan, to acquire by gift, purchase, or intestate succession or
under Mill, or in any other legal manner, land, houses, and property of every
description, whether movable or immovable, and to possess the same ; and freely
to dispose thereof by sale, barter, gift or otherwise.
A rticle VI.
His Highness the Sultan shall be permitted to levy a duty of entry, not
exceeding 6 per cent, on the value of all goods and merchandise, of whatever
description, imported by sea from foreign countries into His Hghness's domi
nions. ihis duty shall be paid at that port in His Highness's dominions where
the goods are first landed ; and, on payment thereof, such goods shall there
after be exempt, whithin the Sultan's dominions, from all other Customs duties
or taxes, levied by, or on behalf of, the Oovernment of 11 is 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 any part of
His Majesty's dominions, 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 are transhipped from one vessel to
another in any of the ports of His Highness the Sultan, 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 for re-shipment to a foreign port. But
goods and merchandise so landed shall be exempted only, if the consignee or his
agent shall have, on the arrival of the vessel, handed over the said goods to be
kept under Customs seal, and declared them as landed for transhipment, or
re-exportation, designating at the same time the foreign port of destination,
and if 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 within a month of being so landed re-shipped and trans
ported abroad. Should, however, any such goods or merchandise, be opened
or removed from the custody of the Customs authorities, the full duty shall
then be payable on the same,
(3) Coals, naval provisions, stores, and fittings, the property of His
Majesty's Government, landed in the dominions of His Highness for the use of
ships of His Majesty's navy.
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This file concerns the conclusion of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation with the Sultan of Muscat, Sayyid Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īd on 19 March 1891. The new treaty was modelled on a recently concluded treaty with Zanzibar. It superseded the Treaty of Commerce of May 1839 and its main purpose was to shut out French interests and influence in Muscat.
Correspondence in the volume is between the British 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. at Bushire and the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Muscat, as well as British officials in the Foreign Department of the Government of India, the Foreign Office and at Zanzibar. There are also copies of correspondence from the Sultan of Muscat.
The file has an index on folio 2A. Subjects within the file include: the exclusion of Cape of Good Hope from the Treaty (folios 88, 94); importation of arms and ammunition (folio 37); the expiration of the Treaty (folios 108, 112-114); British protection for Goanese subjects under the Treaty (folios 144-148, 154-156); modifications to the Treaty (folios 119-120); accession to Natal (folios 88, 94); accession to Newfoundland (folios 95-96); draft of the Treaty (folios 8-17, 22-31); draft protocol (folios 74-77); accession to Queensland (folios 95-96); draft of Revised Treaty (1904-1905) (folios 138-170); Separate Declaration by Sultan as to non-cession of his dominions (folios 54-57, 61-62); treaty executed but not-ratified (folios 49-53); Zanzibar Commercial Treaty (1886) (folios 18-21, 40-48).
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- 1 volume (180 folios)
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This volume is arranged approximately in chronological order.
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Foliation: Foliation numbers are circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. They begins on the title page, on number 1B, and end on the last folio of writing, on number 170. The file contains the following foliation amendments: folios 1A-B; folios 2A-C; folios 4A-B; folios 78A-B; folios 79A-B.
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- 'No 413 Vol 19. Revised Commercial Treaty with Muscat'
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- front, front-i, 1r:1v, 2ar:2cv, 3r:3v, 4ar:4bv, 5r:77v, 78ar:78bv, 79ar:79bv, 80r:170v, i-r:iii-v, back-i, back
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