'File 35/86 I A 32 Muscat Commercial Treaty, 1891: revision of 1905' [‎127v] (258/480)

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transhipment, or in other ways, and tlie owner
thereof, or his deputy, has not arrived to take
delivery of them^ their permission to remain in
the custom house shall be for a period of six
months, if they are of the nature of grain and
perishable goods ; and, if they are of the nature
of metals or woven goods which will admit of
delay their permission to remain in the Custom
house shall be for the period of one year. Then,
if the owner thereof, or his deputy, comes to take
delivery thereof, he shall pay the warehouse tax of
the custom house for this period; and, if the
owner, or his deputy, does not come within the
expiry of this period, the disposal thereof shall be,
if be pleases, at discretion and choice of the
Saperintendent of Customs (12).
Notes—(1) " of whatever description " requires
to be inserted. Slip of the pen probable.
(2) would have to be altered ; " except intoxi
cants and arms and ammunition of which case is
dealt with in Articles of this treaty "
would seem preferable.
(8) This foreshadows an
or ground rent
which is perhaps poorly translated by warehouse—
tax. It will be necessary to specify the amount of
of such tax, if it should be seriously considered?
and it would be better that the matter should be
dealt with in a separate Article, in which case thi s
clause would perhaps best be amended as follows :
'^and, on payment thereof, such goods shall there
after be exempt, within the Sultau^s dominions,
from all other duties or taxes levied by, or on be-
half of, the Government of His Highness the
Sultan, by whatever names these may be designat
ed except such taxes as are specifically described
hereafter in the subsequent Articles of this
Treaty
Another rendering-
(4) Note (4) to Article II.
of " most favoured nation
( 5) Vide note (2) to Article IV.
(6) His Highness has been so anxious to ex
plain that goods for transhipment must pay
" ground rent ^ or warehouse tax that be has
left put the clause that governs this Article from
this point to the end and so makes nonsense of
sub-paragraphs (2), (3) and (4). This, I feel sure,
is only careless drafting. The intention is clear.
The amendment m note (3) above will remove this
difficulty.
(7) Verbal discrepancies of no importance.
(8) Clumsy drafting which I trust to be able
to remove as unnecessary in course of discussion.
(9) ^Warehouse dues ^ or Aground rent ^
again, which might, if at all likely to be approved,
go in separate Article.
(10) I cannot understand the object of this
alteration if " ground rent ^ is approved, presum
ably it would pay Customs Department to keep
them. This should offer no difficulty.
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