File 3939/1926 Pt 6 'Revision of Aitchison's Treaties. Persian Gulf Section.' [‎420r] (275/818)

OMAN ("MUSCAT)—NO. IV—1839.
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or infraction of the law requiring punishment, they shall be discharged by the
British subject in whose service they may be, and shall be delivered over to the
authorities of His Highness the Sultan of Muscat.
Article 5.
The authorities of His Highness the Sultan of Muscat shall not interfere in
disputes between British subjects or between British subjects and the subjects
or citizens of other Christian nations. When differences arise between a subject
of the dominions of His Highness the Sultan of Muscat and a British subject,
if the former is the complainant, the cause shall be heard by the British Consul
or Resident Agent, who shall administer justice thereupon. But if the / British
subject is the complainant against any of the subjects of His Highness the Sultan
of Muscat, or the subjects of any other Mahomedan power, then the cause shall
be decided by the highest authority of His Highness the Sultan of Muscat, or by
persons nominated by him, but in such case the cause shall not be proceeded in
except in the presence of the British Consul or Resident Agent, or of some person
deputed by one or other of them, who shall attend at the Court House, or where
such matter shall be tried. In causes between a British subject and a native
of the dominions of His Highness the Sultan of Muscat, whether tried before the
British Consul or Resident Agent, or before the above-mentioned authority of
His Highness the Sultan of Muscat, the evidence of a man proved to have given
false testimony on a former occasion shall not be received.
Article 6 .
The property of a British subject who may die in the dominions of His High
ness the Sultan of Muscat, or of a subject of His Highness the Sultan of Muscat
who may die in the British dominions, shall be delivered over to their heirs, or
executors, or administrators of the deceased, or to the respective Consul or Resi
dent Agent of the contracting parties, in default of such heirs, or executors, or
administrators. *
Article 7,
If a British subject shall become bankrupt in the dominions of His Highness
the Sultan of Muscat, the British Consul or Resident Agent shall take possession
of all the property of such bankrupt, and shall give it up to his creditors to be
divided among them. This having been done, the bankrupt shall be entitled
to full discharge of his creditors, and he shall not at any time afterwards be re
quired to make up his deficiency, nor shall any property he may afterwards Re
quire A booklet formed of a single gathering of nested bifolia. be considered liable for that purpose. But the British Consul or Resident
Agent shall use his endeavours to obtain, for the benefit of the creditors, any
property of the bankrupt in another country, and to ascertain that everything
possessed by the bankrupt at the time when he' became insolvent has been given
up without reserve.