'Sultanate of Muscat and Oman [Oil concession agreement]' [‎4r] (7/20)

-3-
officc equipment and household furniture, and ether materials,
equipment and &oods of whatsoever nature required by the
Company and its employees for the purpose of its operations
hereunder and to export the Substances and articles previously
imported by the Company free of customs or export duty and
taxes or other charges, but it shall pay on all personal goods,
clothing and general merchandise imported by the Company for
the personal use of its employees or for resale to them the
ordinary duty in force for the time being in the Leased Area.
Saving as in Article 6 and in this .article provided, the
Company, its personnel, its operations, income, profits and
property including the Substances shall be exempt and free
during the period of this Agreement from all present or future
harbour duties, import duties, export duties, taxes, imposts
and charges of any hind whether State or local, tolls and land
surface rent of whatever nature.
In consideration of the right herein granted the
Company shall, after signature of the declaration referred to
in Article 6, pay to the Sultan within (3) three months after
the close of each calendar year the sum of (c) four annas per
English ton of 2,L40 lbs. in respect of the Substances won and
saved during the said calendar year.
This payment of annas four (4) per ton is in addition
to the Royalty of Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. three (3) and annas (2) for natural
gas sold provided in .article 6 hereof.
(b) The importation by the Company of firearms and other
weapons is prohibited, except with the written permission of
the Sultan.
aRTICLu 12 . The Company recognises that certain parts
of the Sultan’s Territory arc not at ,,resent safe for its
operations. The Sultan undertakes on his part to use his good
offices with a view to making it possible for representatives
of the Company to enter such parts and will inform the Company
as soon as such parts become safe.
A-RflC-Ldi 13. (a) For the purpose of its operations
hereunder the Company shall have the right without hindrance to
construct, maintain and operate power stations ; refineries,
pipelines and storage tanks, facilities for water supply
including boring for water telegraph and telephone lines and
installations and w.ireless installations, roads, railways,
tramways, buildings, ports, harbours, harbour works, aircraft,
buildings and landing places for aircraft, wharves and jetties,
oil ai d Cv. aling stations, with such li hting as may bo
requisite and any other facilities or worms hich the Company
may consider necessary and for such purposes to use free of all
payments any stone, sand, gravel, gypsum, lime, clay or similar
material or water which may be available provided always that
the inhabitants of the Leased Area are net prevented from taking
their usual requirements of these materials and that the water
supply of the local inhabitants and nomad population who may be
dependent on the same is not endangered. The Company at its
discretion may select the position of any such works. The
Company may likewise install and operate witnout hindrance all
such means of transportation by land, air and water as may be
necessary for the effective conduct of its operations hereunder.
(b) The Company shall under normal conditions accept
and transmit free of charge on its wireless and telegraph