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provided the cargo so discharged shall be re-shipped ana tauen
away on board of the same vessel, or if the latter shall have
been condemned, or her departure delayed, in any other manner.
Article 7,
No article whatever shall be prohibited from being imported into or
exported from the territories of His Highness the Sultan of Muskat, and no
export duties are to be levied on goods exported from those territories except
with the consent of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty, such consent
being subject to the conditions that may be laid down in the notifications in
timating the same.
Article 8.
It is agreed and understood by the High Contracting Parties that, in the
event of an arrangement being entered into hereafter between His Highness
and the powers having Treaty relations with Muskat, and to which Great
Britain shall be a consenting party, whereby vessels entering the port of
Muskat shall be charged with shipping, tonnage, or harbour dues, such dues to
be administered under the control of a special Board for the improvement of
the harbour and construction and maintenance of liglithouses, &c. j nothing in
the aforementioned provisions shall be construed so as to exempt Biitish vessels
from payment of such shipping, harbour, or tonnage dues as may hereafter be
agreed upon.
Article 9.
It shall be at the option of the British subject in each case to pay the
percentage duties stipulated in Article 6, either in cash, or, if the nature of
the goods allows of it, iu kind, by giving up an equivalent amount of the
goods or produce.
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His Highness the Sultan ot iviuskat —
nise the establishment of any kind of monopoly or exclusive privilege of trade
within his dominions to any Government, Association, or individual.
Article 5.
Subiects of Her Britannic Majesty shall be permitted, throughout the
dominions of His Highness the Sultan, to acquire by gift, purchase, intestate
succession, or under will, or any other legal manner, land houses, and pro-
perty of every description, whether moveable or immoveable, to possess the
same; and freely to dispose thereof by sale, barter, donation, or otherwise.
Article 6.
His Highness the Sultan shall be permitted to levy a duty of entry not
exceeding 5 per cent, on the value o f all goo ds and merchandise, of whatever