"جزء ٣. رقم ٧٣٣ لسنة ١٩٠٤. مسقط:- المعاهدات التجارية." [و‎‎٣‎٣‎٨] (٢٨٦/٢٦١)

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Article V.
Subjects of His 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 property of every des
cription, whether movable or immovable,
to possess the same; and freely to dispose
thereof by sale, barter, donation, or other
wise.
Article VI.
His Highness the Sultan shall be per
mitted to levy a duty of entry not exceed
ing 5 per cent, on the value of all goods
and merchandise, of whatever description,
imported by sea from foreign countries
into His Highness’s dominions. This
duty shall be paid at that port in
His Highness’s dominions w r here the
goods are first landed, and, on payment
thereof, such goods shall thereafter be
exempt, within the Sultan’s dominions,
from all other customs duties or taxes,
levied by, or on behalf of, the Government
of His Highness the Sultan, by whatever
names these may be designated, and no
higher import duty shall be claimed from
British subjects than that which is paid by
subjects or citizens of the most favoured
nation.
This duty, once paid, shall cover, from
all other charges on the part of His High
ness the Sultan, goods of whatever descrip
tion coming from any part of His Majesty’s
dominions, whether these are intended for
local consumption or for transmission else
where in bulk or otherwise, and whether
they remain in the state in which they
are imported or have been manufactured.
There shall, however, be exempted from
payment of all duty the following,
namely :—
1 . All goods and merchandize which are
transhipped, from one vessel to another in
any of the ports of His Highness the Sultan
of Mask at, or which have been for this pur
pose provisionally landed and deposited in
any of the Sultan’s custom-houses to await
the arrival of a vessel for re-shipment to
any such foreign port. But goods and mer
chandize so landed shall be exempted only,
provided that the consignee or his agent
shall have, on the arrival of the ship,
handed over the said goods to be kept
under Customs seal, and declared them as