File 3939/1926 Pt 3 'Publications: Revision of Aitchison's Treaties: Aden and Arabia Sections.' [‎76r] (145/410)

ADEN —The Abdah —NO. 11—3802.
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Abyssinia or any other country, not in the possession of the Sultan, then no duty
is to be paid, as it is to be considered that such goods have paid a duty on their
first being landed, and consequently the Sultan agrees that they shall not pay
duty a second time.
Article 6.
The British subjects who use the ports of Aden shall have the privelege of
transacting their own business, and not be obliged to commit it to the arrange
ment of any other person, nor forced to use any broker Often a local commercial agent in the Gulf who regularly performed duties of intelligence gathering and political representation. or interpreter whatever,^
unless they shall please to do so; and then such broker Often a local commercial agent in the Gulf who regularly performed duties of intelligence gathering and political representation. or interpreter to be a
person of their own choice, and not subject to any control on the part of the Sultam
Article 7.
It shall be lawful and free for the subjects of the British nation to make over
their property to whomsoever they please, without any control, either in health
or in sickness; and if any person, being a British subject, should die suddenly
and without a will, then the whole of his property, after paying his just debts
to the subjects of the Sultan, is to be vested in trust in the hands of the British
Resident to be transmit!^ by him to the Supreme Government, or any other
Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. , for the benefit of his family and his lawful heirs.
Article 8.
That no dispute may hereafter arise about the person claiming the protec
tion of the British flag, whether European ot Native, a register shall be kept of
alPthe British subjects residing at Aden, where every person having a certificate
from either of the Presidencies in India shall, by that certificate, be registered
in the office of the Cadi and the British Resident, and if he fails to register him
self, he shall not be entitled to the benefits contained in the seventh Article.
Article 9.
The benefit resulting from the seventh Article is to be considered as extend
ing to any travelling merchants, or supercargoes, being subjects of the British
Government, and the crews of all the ships navigating under the British
upon a certificate being produced from the Commander of such ships to w ic
they belonged at the time of making a will, or dying without one.
Article 10.
The Sultan binds himself, his heirs and successors, to give every assistance
in his power to recover the debts due from any of his subjects to the British su
jects ; and that after three months from the time that any British subject s a
send his demand to the Cadi for his assistance and prove a just debt, that tben,
if it is not paid, the Cadi shall have the power to order the property of the de tor
to be seized and sold for the benefit of the creditor, but if the person owing t e
debt to the British subject has no property, then the Cadi shall confine him