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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎257] (299/733)

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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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treaties with muskat.
257
Declaration made on the part oyHER B ritannic M ajesty, on the
exchange of the Ratifications of the preceding Convention.
The undersigned Samuel Hennell , Esquire, a Captain in the Military
Service of the East India Company, and Resident in the Persian
Gulf, appointed on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to exchange Her Majesty's
ratification of the Treaty of Commerce concluded at Zanzibar on the
thirty-first May, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, by Robert Cogan,
Esquire, a Captain in the Naval Service of the East India Company, on
the part of Her said Majesty, and by Husun bin Ibrahim and Mahabut
Ali bin Nasir , on the part of His Highness the Sultan of Muskat,
against the ratification of the same Treaty by His Highness the Sultan
of Muskat, is commanded by the Queen, in order to avoid any possible
misunderstanding as to the meaning of the words contained in Article
IX. of the said Treaty,any other charge by Government whatever,"
to declare to Syud Mahomed bin Syud Shumf, appointed by His High
ness the Sulitan of Muskat to exchange His Highness' ratification, that
the aforesaid words are by Her Majesty taken and understood to mean
^ any other charge whatever made by the Government, or by any local
authority of the Government,"
Muskat, this 22nd day of July 1840.
(Signed) Syud Mahomed bin Syud Shuruf . (^jgned) S. Hennell.
The following Counter-Declaration was at the same time made on the
part of His Highness the I maum of M uskat, by his appointed
Agent, S yud M ahomed bin S yud S huruf.
The undersigned, Syud Mahomed bin Syud Shuruf , appointed by His
Highness the Sultan of Muskat to exchange His Highness' ratification
pf the Treaty of Commerce concluded at Zanzibar, on the 31st of May
1839, by Robert Cogan , Esquire, a Captain of the Naval Service of the
East India Company, on the part of Her Majesty the Queen of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and by Husun bin
Ibrahim , and Mahabut Ali bin Nasir , on the part of His Highness the
Sultan of Muskat, against ihe ratification of the same Treaty b:y Her

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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)
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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.

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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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