"الملف 35/86 II A 45 مسقط - المعاهدة التجارية لسنة ١٨٩١ ومراجعة المعاهدة سنة ١٩٢٢" [ظ‎‎٢‎١‎٣] (٥٧٢/٤٣٤)

1140/1140/91.
S.W.I.
23rd itLrch, 1927.
Sir,
I am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter No.P.837/27 of March
8th relative to the proposed renewal of the Commercial Treaty
with Muscat for a further period of one year.
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2. In reply I am to inform you that the Secretary of State
concurs in the Earl of Birkenhead's proposal to approve the
Government of India's recommendation that the treaty should
be so renewed.
3. It will eventually be necessary to register this renewal
with the League of Nations, as was done in the case of the last
renewal (see Foreign Office letter No.E.3099/137 3/91 of November
9th last), and I am therefore to request that three copies of
the English text and at least one copy of the Arabic'text may
eventually be transmitted to this department for that purpose.
4. It is observed that the last renewal, a copy of which
Was enclosed in your letter No.S. <2c 0.3119/26 of May i9th, j.926,
provided for the possible withdrawal of Canada and of the Irish
Free State from the treaty, while other parts of the Empire in
South Africa, Newfoundland and Southern Rhodesia, appear to be
Jound by it. In these circumstance's I am to suggest that a
copy of the present correspondence should be sent to the Dominions
Office for their information.
I am, etc..
Si/- Lancelot Oliphant.
The Under Secretary of State,
India Office.