ملف ١٩٢٦/٣٩٣٩ الجزء ٦ "تنقيح معاهدات أيتشيسون. قسم الخليج الفارسي." [و‎‎٤‎٢‎٧] (٨١٨/٢٨٩)

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OMAN (MUSCAT)—NO. VII—1846.
Article 2.
His Highness the Sultan of Muscat further engages to prohibit, under the
severest penalties, the importation of slaves from any part of Africa into hia
possessions in Asia, and to use his utmost influence with all the Chiefs of Arabia,
the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf, in like manner, to prevent the introduction
of slaves from Africa into their respective territories.
Article 3.
His Highness the Sultan of Muscat grants to the ships of Her Majesty’s Navy
as well as to those of the East India Company, permission to seize and confiscate
any vessels, the property of His Highness or of his subjects, carrying on slave
trade, excepting only such as are engaged in the transport of slaves from one
port to another of his own dominions in Africa between the port of Lamoo to
the north and its dependencies, the northern limit of which is the north point
of Kuyhoor Island in 1° 57' (one degree and fifty-seven minutes) South Latitude,
and the port of Kulwa to the south and its dependencies, the southern limit of
which is the Songa Manora or Pagoda Point in 9° 2' (nine degrees and two minutes)
South Latitude, including the Islands of Zanzibar, Pemba, and Monfea.
Article 4.
This agreement to commence and have effect from the let (first) day of Janu
ary 1847 (one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven) of the year of Chnst,
and the 15th day of the month of Mahaneerun 1263 (twelve hundred and sixty
three) of the Hegira.
Done at Zanzibar this 2nd (second) day of October mb (one thousand eight hun-
dred and forty-five) of the year of Christ and 29th day of Ramzan 1261 (twelve w re
and sixty-one) of the Hegira.
Atkins Hamerton,
Captain.
On behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
aud Ireland, her heirs and successors.
No. VII.
Rules established by His Highness the Imam of Muscat in Apri 1 »^ r ®8
to the Duties to be hereafter charged on the cargoes of vesse s pu mg
His Highness’s ports.
In a letter, dated the 13th April 1846, Captain Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty •
onsul, and Honourable Company’s Agent in the dominions o is ^ ° ,
tttam of Muscat, reported that His Highness the Imam of Muscat had orders