"الملف 35/86 II A 45 مسقط - المعاهدة التجارية لسنة ١٨٩١ ومراجعة المعاهدة سنة ١٩٢٢" [ظ‎‎٢‎٤‎٢] (٥٧٢/٤٩٢)

that such prohibition does not discriminate against articles
produced in the United States.
(c) That, in the event of the Government of Zanzibar
finding it desirable on grounds of public policy to fix
prices of food or other commodities, and always provided
that such price-fixing measured do not involve discrimination
against articles produced in the United States, they will
not regard as operative the clause in Article II of the 1833
Treaty prohibiting the establishment by the Sultan or his
officers of any fixed price on articles to be sold by merchante
of the United States or on merchandise which the latter
may wish to purchase.
12. In putting forward the first of the above requests,
I am once more to explain that this proposal on the part of
His Majesty's Government is not made on account of any
objection to the conduct of any United States Consul in
Zanzibar, but is merely designed to remove a special exemption
which is superfluous under the present settled administration
of the Protectorate.
13. As regards article 3 of the United States-Muscat
Treaty, I am to offer the following observations on the part
of my Government and to request you to be so good as to
confirm to me on behalf of the United States Government that
the assumptions of His Majesty^s Government are correct.
14. His Majesty^ Government have hitherto regarded
themselves as at liberty to approve the increase by the
Zanzibar Government of rates of import duty into the
Protectorate, in accordance with the spirit of the convention
of St. Germain-on-Lays, the purpose of which was to revise
the restrictive provisions of the earlier Act of Berlin and
Declaration of Brussels so as to enable sufficient revenues
to be raised for the proper administration of certain parts
of Africa in accordance with changed conditions and upon
modern lines. The United States were not parties to the Act
of Berlin nor, consequently, to the Declaration of Brussels,
nor