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'P. 3 733/1904. Muscat :- Commercial Treaties.' [257r] (99/286)
The record is made up of 1 item (141 folios). It was created in 8 Feb 1903-23 Mar 1914. 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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In like manner, the British Consul shall afford
every aid and facility to subjects of His Highness,
in recovering debts, justly due to them from a
British subject.
^ N otes (1) and (2). The invariable replies given
alread y to the just demands of British subjects .
Th e office files are full of such lying pretensions
and 1 hav e two cases pending now before me, in
one of which a man, possessing a date-garden,
pleads inability to pay a trifling debt not one-tenth
of its value and is consistently supported by His
Highness and his officials. In the other, a debtor,
possessed of similar valuable property at the time
of a lo an not eighteen months old, has disposed of
that property by a friendly family agreement ancL
the creditor is apparently powerless against this
palpably shady transaction. Cheating bankrupts
are common everywhere, but this cynical support
o f their fraudulent devices is most discreditable to
His Highness. To legalise these flimsy excuses
would be dan gerous in the extreme .
(3) Tide note (2) to Article IV.
Article XVII.
As per draft Treaty, but Arabic drafting appear
to me faulty and obscure, easily altered.
Article XYIII.
As per draft Treaty.
Article XIX.
As per draft Treaty except after the word
“ Board ” add “ which the Sultan, or his naib,
shall appoint ” vide remarks to Article VIII,
note (2). The words “His Majesty ^ are not
here employed.
Article XX.
As per draft Treaty.
Article 17.
Should a British subject die within the domi
nions of His Highness the Sultan of Muskat, or
dying elsewhere leave property therein, moveable
or immoveable, the British Consul shall be autho
rised to collect, realise, and take possession of the
estate of the deceased, to be disposed of according
to the provisions of English law.
Article 18.
The houses, dwellings, warehouses, and other
premises of British subjects, or ot persons actually
in their regular service, within the dominions of
His Highness the Sultan of Muskat, shall not be
entered, or searched under any pretext, by the
officials of His Highness without the consent of
the occupier, unless with the cognizance and
assistance of the British Consul or his substitute.
Article 19.
It is hereby agreed between the two High
Contracting Parties that, in the event of an agree
ment being hereafter arrived at between His
Highness the Sultan of Muskat and the various
Powers with which His Highness shall be in
Treaty relations, including Great Britain, which
must be a consenting party, whereby the resi
dents of a district or town shall, without distinc
tion of nationality, be made subject to the pay
ment of local taxes, for municipal and sanitary
purposes, the same to be fixed and administered
by or under the control of a special Board, nothing
contained in this Treaty shall be understood so
as to exempt British residents from the payment
of such taxes.
Article 20.
Subjects of the two High Contracting Parties
shall, within the dominions of each other, enjoy
freedom of conscience and religious toleration, the
free and public exercise of all forms of religion,
and the right to build edifices for religious wor
ship.
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The item discusses a proposal to revise the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation signed between Great Britain and Muscat in 1892.
The correspondence includes the opinions of the 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. , the Government of India, the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, the Board of Trade, 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. , 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. and Consul at Muscat, and the Sultan of Muscat on the revisions required for the treaty.
The item concludes with the decision not to revise the 1891 Treaty, instead agreeing to an extension of the existing treaty for a further five years from February 1914.
Also discussed are questions arising from the proposed revision:
- the protection of Goanese subjects of Portugal in Muscat;
- the protection extended by the French Government to subjects of Christian powers residing at Muscat who did not have their own consul.
This is part 3 of 6. Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, year the subject file was opened, subject heading, and list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 208, and terminates at f 349, as part of a larger physical volume; 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.
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- IOR/L/PS/10/27
- Title
- '1904/733. Pts 3, 4, 5, & 6. MUSCAT. COMMERCIAL TREATY. STATUS OF MUSCATIS. HOSPITAL.'
- Pages
- 214r:214v, 217r:217v, 237r:259v, 272r:272v, 286r:288v, 311v:312v, 315r:316v, 324r:326v, 337r:341v, 346r:347v
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