مجموعة ٢٠/ ٣ (٢) "مسقط: العلاقات مع الحكومة البريطانية؛ مراجعة المعاهدة التجارية" [و‎‎٣‎٣‎٤] (١٣٢٤/٦٧٢)

"by foreigners ana said he could only accept the present
draft if the words nhc nationals of the Sultan or” were
deleted. This, as he said, would leawe him free to impose
unlimited restrictions on all foreigners alike. He was
however willing to substitute for the last four lines the
proviso at the end of Article 5 of his own draft. The
article was left for further discussion.
Article G (2) i
The Sultan agreed that a representative of the
Board of Trade might be invited to discuss this paragraph
with him and Mr. Dulichand.
Article 14 ;
The Sultan expressed a number of objections to this
Article which he said was new and created a very unwelcome
impression that there were two governments in his country.
He was quite content that British Subjects should be tried
in the Consul's Court and he was not interested in the civil
and criminal laws applied to them by the Consul. What he did
■want was that British Subjects should, like his own Subjects,
be subject to municipal regulations and the like, for
example to regulations relating to curfew, prohibition
of smoking during Ramadan, motor traffic &c. It was
exp 1 ained to h 1 m that tlie Article was considered essentia 1
in consequence of the surrender of the full ex-territorial
rights conferred by the existing treaty, that it was
considered necessary to provide machinery for removing any
doubt as to the laws which were applicable to British Subjects
in Muse at, and that His Eighness need have no apprehe nsion
that regulations of the kind he referred to would not
exhibited and enforced in the Consul's Court against
British/