"مسقط: معاهدة التعرفة المقترحة" [و‎‎١‎٧‎٠] (٥٠٩/٣٤٧)

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(1) that the State should be assisted to obtain
an overdraft of half a lakh from the Imperial
Bank of India to meet i'rrmediate requirements•
(2) orders should be issued without delay for the
reduction of the Sultan's allowance to Hs.5000.
(3) that His Majesty's Government should agree to
revise Article 5 of the Treaty of 1391 so as to
^rant the Muscat State full tariff autbnomy provided
most favoured nation treatment is accorded to
British goods,
(4) that the French Government should similarly
be asked to grant to the Muscat Stats full tariff
autonomy in return for most favoured nation-
treatment , and
(5) unless the modifications of the treaties can be
effected in the very near future, the State should
be allowed to increase the rates in anticipation
of the revision of the British treaty, on all goods
other than those imported in French or American
vessels, or as it is put in their draft"subject to
their treaty obligations to other foreign Powers 0 .
IIL T?1iinl1j'j T rrnnln mnnti nn T " T r■ TinniTT n s-
appeSced into the Ruba-al-Ehall on the, 10th December and
has not rseen heard of since. The ^olitioa,! Agent is making
enquiries i^^arding him, out it is of cou^^c v ery dx- --i^u—w
to get in toucSyvith him. I have refrained frto detailed
co■ ent on his ct and administration of the i^inances
^ntii he has had an o^j^rtuni ^y ox oi f 0 ~ i n^ an ey-p 1 a^at icii,
but it seems evident that has allowed the greatest
laxity to prevail and has misread the'British authorities
who naturally assumed that the fi^H^es he supplied were
qiy--niinn imi ii ni fi ' 1 j Mi ' nimiiiiii p pusitinn &£
Ij I i „ 3ii ti ^.