ملف ١٩٢٦/٣٩٣٩ الجزء ٦ "تنقيح معاهدات أيتشيسون. قسم الخليج الفارسي." [و‎‎٥‎٠‎٤] (٨١٨/٤٤٣)

OMAN (MUSCAT)—NO. XVI—1891.
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made subject to the payment of local taxes, for municipal and sanitary purposes,
the same to be fixed and administered by or under the control of a special Board,
nothing contained in this Treaty shall be understood so as to exempt British resi
dents from the payment of such taxes.
Article 20.
Subjects of the two High Contracting Parties shall, within the dominions of
each other, enjoy freedom of conscience and religious toleration, the feee and
public exercise of all forms of religion, and the right to build edifices for religious
worship.
Article 21.
The stipulations of the present treaty shall be applicable to all the Colonies
and foreign possessions of Her Britannic Majesty so far as the laws permit, except
ing to those hereinafter named, that is to say, except to—
The Dominion of Canada.
Newfoundland.
The Cape of Good Hope.
Natal. <j
New South Wales.
Victoria.
Queensland.
Tasmania,
South Australia.
Western Australia.
New Zealand.
Provided always that the stipulations of the present Treaty shall be made appli
cable to any of the above-named Colonies or foreign possessions, on whose be
half notice to that effect shall have been given by Her Britannic Majesty’s Re
presentative in Muscat to His Highness the Sultan within two years from the
date of exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty.
^ Article 22.
The Present Treaty has been executed in quadruplicate, two copies being
written in English and two in Arabic. These are understood to be of similar
import and signification! ; in the event, however, of doubt hereafter arising a«
to the proper interpretation of the English or Arabic text of one or other of t •
Treaty stipulations, the English text shall be considered decisive, ^
shall come into operation within one month after the date when the ratifications
may take place.