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'Muscat Dhows Arbitration. In the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. Grant of the French Flag to Muscat Dhows. The case on behalf of the Government of His Britannic Majesty.' [27r] (62/208)
The record is made up of 1 volume (102 folios). It was created in 1904?-1905?. It was written in English and French. 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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15
THE QUESTIONS OF FACT INVOLVED.
The facts relating to the present controversy
are not numerous or complicated.
No attempt is made by France to deny the
accuracy of the British account of the incident of
the quarantine-breakers, or to suggest that any one
of these men was on a vessel under the French
flag when sent to quarantine, or when he
escaped or when he was recaptured. Under
these circumstances Consular jurisdiction over
the men seems to have been claimed under the
Treaty of 1844; at least no other ground is
suggested. Nor again is any attempt made to
contradict the substance of the British account
British Case,p. 21. of the incidents of Suweik and Debai. The former
case was a claim to deal with the succession to
Salim-bin-Mahommed which must have been a
question of purely Mahommedan law affecting
d native of Suweik. The second related to the
use of the French flag by the son of the above
Salim. If new papers had been given to the son
after the death of the father in 1902, there would
have been a breach of M. Cambon's undertaking
of the 26th June, 1900.
Appendix 3, p. 43. Since the delivery of the British Counter-Case
a report has been received from Zanzibar that an
Arab, who seems to be the Ali-bin-Salem (No. 17
on the revised French list), has come under
suspicion of slave-trading, and has been deprived
of his French papers by M. Ottavi, the French
Consul at Zanzibar.
The references in the French <£ Contre-
Memoire " to the Debai incident (pp. 68-69) make
it expedient- to restate that incident in somewhat
greater detail. Debai is on the Pirate Coast, and
is not part of the dominions of the Sultan of
Muscat, and its Chief is one of the Trucial Chiefs
referred to in the British Counter-Case, p. 21.
The representations made by the French Consul
to the Sultan of Muscat seem to have "been
made in the belief that the Chief of Debai
was a dependent or feudatory of the Sultan
of Muscat, which is not the case. The
French Consul, also, on the 24th March, 1904,
wrote direct to the Chief of Debai the letter of
Appendix 2, p. 43. which a copy is annexed. The action of the British
Consul at Muscat, with reference to the Debai
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This file consists of a number of printed reports relating to the arbitration over the granting of French flags to Muscat dhows:
- A printed report in 1904 by the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, relating to the arbitration on the issue of French flags to Omani dhows. An agreement between Britain and France in 1862 committed both governments to respect the independence of the Sultan of Muscat.
- Reply on behalf of the Government of His Britannic Majesty to the Supplementary Conclusions, presented on behalf of the Government of the French Republic and admitted by the tribunal on July 25, 1905.
- The verdict (in French) of the arbitration tribunal.
- Treaty Series (No. 3, 1905) - Agreements between the United Kingdom and France referring to arbitration the question of the grant of the French flag to Muscat Dhows.
- The section on the geography of Oman (ff 58-59A) discusses the French claim with reference to Kiepert's map of 1850. Includes a sketch map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Arabian Coast (folio 91A).
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- 1 volume (102 folios)
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Description: The foliation sequence commences at the title page and terminates at the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Foliation errors: 1, and 1A; 50, and 50A; 59, and 59A; 84, and 84A-C; 88, and 88A; 91, and 91A. Pagination: A number of original typed pagination sequences are also located in the file.
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- 'Muscat Dhows Arbitration. In the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. Grant of the French Flag to Muscat Dhows. The case on behalf of the Government of His Britannic Majesty.'
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- front, back, spine , edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:1v, 1ar:1av, 2r:50v, 50ar:50av, 51r:59v, 59ar:59av, 60r:84v, 84ar:84cv, 85r:93v, back-i
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