File 4377/1912 'Muscat Arms Traffic: Complaints of British Firms' [‎21r] (46/430)

ARMS TRAFFIC.
Muscat Warehouse Rules, 1912.
Notice by His Highness Sir Seyyid Faisal-bin Turki, G.C.I.E.,
Sultan of Muscat and Oman.
I he following draft rules for the establishment, maintenance, and control
of the arms warehouse are published for the information of all concerned.
1 he said rules will be held to apply to all arms and ammunition or parts
thereof held in our territories by traders for sale on the date of the intro
duction of the said rules, and to all such arms, ammunition, or parts thereof
as may be thereafter imported into our territories.
On, or about, but not before, the 1st September 1912, a subsidiary notice
will be issued in due course confirming these draft rules and notifying the
date on which the rules so confirmed shall come into operation.
Draft Rules.
Rule 1. —All arms, ammunition, or parts thereof, held by traders for
sale to the public within my dominions, shall be deposited forthwith in the
arms warehouse in accordance with these regulations. The 'warehouse
superintendent will grant detailed receipt to the depositor for all such arms,
ammunition, or parts thereof in the form attached and marked A.
Rule 2.—After the expiry of one month from the date on which these
rules come into operation, all arms, ammunition, or parts thereof found in
the possession of traders (except in accordance with the provisions of llule 15
hereinafter mentioned), contrary to the provisions of Rule f aforesaid, shall
be confiscated, ff the offending trader be a Muscat subject, he will be
severely punished ; if a foreigner and amenable to my jurisdiction, he will
be liable to expulsion from my territories. If the offending trader be a
subject of any of the Powers in treaty relations with me, information will be
laid against him to the Consul of the Power whose subject or protege he may
be, and the aforesaid Consul will be requested to deal with him according to
law and treaty and the spirit of these regulations.
Ride 3.—In addition to all or any of the penalties imposed by these rules,
should any trader be found guilty in the proper forum of offending against
the provisions of Rule 1 aforesaid, all arms, ammunition, or parts thereof
held in the Muscat arms warehouse to the credit of such offending trader, or
that may subsequently be deposited in the arms warehouse in his name under
the provisions of Rule 4, will, without further sentence of forfeiture, be
liable to confiscation.
Ride 4. ---All arms, ammunition, or parts thereof which may hereafter be
imported into Muscat territory will be taken direct to the arms warehouse
and there deposited.
Rule 5. —For the more effective carrying out of the provisions of the
preceding rule, the masters ot" steamers importing arms and ammunition or
parts thereof will be required to produce on arrival and furnish to the
representative of the warehouse superintendent, who will attend on board,
the copy of a separate manifest, in the form attached and marked P, showing
S. 198—2. A