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File XXXII/12 '1. Finances. 2. Customs Duties (Sur). 3. Financial Crisis, 1931. 4. Treaties with France and America' [14r] (32/266)
The record is made up of 1 file (129 folios). It was created in 18 Dec 1928-31 Dec 1930. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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to attract powerful triTial personages from the remoter
parts of the State: such expenditure would he a first
charge on the means of the Buler of an Arah State run on
traditional lines. Any reorientation of policy in this
direction thus involves the increasing of revenues, and
the State's only means of doing this would appear to he
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hy increasing customs duties. Higher Customs duties, if
authorised, can he collected, though some preliminary
discontent is inevitable. Any increase in the cost of
living, however small, will naturally lie unpopular with
the general public, hut this feeling should disappear
with familiarity. Two other sources of oppoaition-without
considering Sur which has a century's reputation and
practise of evasion-should however he anticipated.
(i) 'Isa hin Salih (Sharqiyah)
(ii) Yal Sa'ad tribe (Batinah)
The Sultan considers the difficulties would not be
insurmountable for two reasons (a) both parties having
suffered in recent times at the hands of British Imperial
forces are not expected to persist in obstructing a
measure which they would know has only been made possible
by a revision of the 1891 Treaty, with its implication
of British Government assent, and (h) means would avail
for placating such opposition, if not of forestalling it.
Mr. G. Noel Bower (Imperial Customs Service) sent
to Muscat on deputation from the Government of India in
March of 1925 for the purpose of examining the State's
Customs Department, addressed himself in his Beport to
the question of the revision of the State's 5^ advolarem
duties. He therein expressed three alternative views
i afainst an increase (a) on the hypothesis
that "it is possible that imports would show a falling
off to such an extent that no extra duty would he
realised." (h) on political grounds.
ii an increase of l^to 6 (plus aloohal and
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This file contains correspondence between British officials (primarily at the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Muscat, the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in Bushire and 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. in London) concerning economic problems in the Sultanate of Muscat and the consequent need to raise its customs tariffs in order to increase state revenue. Much of the correspondence relates to potential issues that this proposed increase could cause with the United States of America and France due to treaties those two countries previously agreed with the Sultan of Muscat.
In addition to internal correspondence between British officials, the file also contains a limited amount of correspondence with US and French diplomats and one letter in Arabic (with English translation) from the Sultan of Muscat, Taymūr bin Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īd(folios 52-53).
In addition to correspondence, the file contains the following documents:
- 'Note on the Financial Aspect of Our Policy [in Muscat]' 1928 (folios 5-6)
- 'List of the monthly allowances paid by the Muscat Govt. to the Frontier Shaikhs. 1927' (folio 48)
- Draft revised treaty between the United States of America and the Sultan of Muscat (folios 120-121).
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- 1 file (129 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 131; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 5-128; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Title
- File XXXII/12 '1. Finances. 2. Customs Duties (Sur). 3. Financial Crisis, 1931. 4. Treaties with France and America'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:51v, 54r:102v, 104r:114v, 116r:118v, 120r:126v, 128r:130v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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