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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [252] (294/733)
The record is made up of 1 volume (364 folios). It was created in 1856. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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252
TREATIES WITH MUSKAT.
such officers ; and such Consuls shall at all times be placed in th
country in which they reside, on the footing of the Consuls of the most
favoured nations. Each of the high contracting parties further agrees
to permit his own subjects to be appointed to Consular offices by the
other contracting party : provided always that the persons so appointed
shall not begin to act without the previous approbation of the Sovereign
whose subjects they may be.
The public functionaries of either Government, residing in the do
minions of the other, shall enjoy the same privileges, immunities, and
exemptions, which are enjoyed within the same dominions by similar
public functionaries of other countries.
Article IV,
Subjects of the dominions of His Highness the Sultan of Muskat,
actually in the service of British subjects in those dominions, shall
enjoy the same protection which is granted to British subjects them
selves ; but il such subjects of the dominions of His Highness the Sultan
of Muskat shall be convicted of any crime or infraction of the law,
requiring punishment, they shall be discharged by the British subjects
in whose service they may be, and shall be delivered over to the author
rities of His Highness the Sultan of Muskat.
Article V.
The authorities of His Highness the Sultan of Muskat shall not in
terfere in disputes between British subjects, or between British sub
ject and the subjects or citizens of other Christian nations. When
differences arise between a subject of the dominions of His Highness
the Sultan of Muskat and a British subject, if the former is the com
plainant, the cause shall be heard by the British Consul or Resident
Agent, who shall administer justice thereupon ; but if the British sub
ject is the complainant against any of the subjects of His Highness the
Sultan of Muskat, or the subjects of any other Mahomedan power, then
the cause shall be decided by the highest authority of His Highness the
Sultan of Muskat, or by any person nominated by him | but in such
case, the cause shall not be proceeded in, except in the presence of the
British Consul, or Resident Agent, or of some person deputed by one
01 other of them, who shall attend at the court house where such matter
shall be tried. In causes between a British subject and a native of the
dominions of His Highness the Sultan of Muskat, whether tried before
the British Consul or Resident Agent, or before the abovementioned
authority of His Highness the Sultan of Muskat. the evidence of
a man proved to have given false testimony on a former occasion shall
not be received.
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The volume is Selections from the records of the Bombay Government , compiled and edited by Robert Hughes Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Political Department, New Series: 24 (Bombay: Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1856).
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- 1 volume (364 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains an abstract of contents on p. iii, a detailed list of contents on pp. vii-xx, an alphabetical index on pp. xxi-xxvii, and a list of maps etc on p. xviii.
- Physical characteristics
Pagination: two separate pagination sequences are present in the volume. The first sequence (pp. i-xviii) commences at the first page and terminates at the list of maps (p. xviii). A second pagination sequence then takes over (pp. 1-688), commencing at the title page and terminating at the final page. Both these pagination sequences are printed, with additions in pencil, and the numbers are found at the top (left, right or centre) of each page.
The fold-outs in this volume were not paginated by the publisher. As a result, these have been foliated using the nearest page number. For example, the fold-out attached to p.51 has been numbered as 51A.
Pagination anomalies: pp. 15, 15A; 45, 45A; 49, 49A; 51, 51A; 531, 531A.
The following pages need to be folded out to be read: 15A, 45A, 51A, 327-328, 531A.
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- IOR/R/15/1/732
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- 'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1:28, 1:48, 50:688, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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