'A Collection of Treaties and Engagements relating to the Persian Gulf Shaikhdoms and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman in force up to the End of 1953' [‎33v] (68/92)

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A rticle 8.
Vessels belonging to the subjects of the Sultan which may resort to any port,
in the United States shall pay no other or higher rate of duties or other charges,
than the nation the most favoured shall pay.
A rticle 9.
The President of the United States may appoint Consuls to reside in the ports
of the Sultan where the principal commerce shall be carried on, which Consuls
shall be the exclusive judges of all disputes on suits wherein American citizens shall
be engaged with each other; they shall have power to receive the property of
any American citizen dying within the kingdom, and to send the same to his
heirs, first paying all his debts due to the subjects of the Sultan. The said Consuls
shall not be arrested, nor shall their property be seized, nor shall any of their
household be arrested, but their persons and their property and their houses shall
be inviolate. Should any Consul, however, commit any offence against the laws
of the kingdom, complaint shall be made to the President, who will immediately
displace him.
Concluded, signed, and sealed at the Royal Palace in the city of Maskat, in
the Kingdom of Oman, the 21st day of September, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-three of the Christian era, and the fifty-seventh year of the
Independence of the United States of America (corresponding to the sixth day
of the Moon, called Jumadee-ul-Awul, in the year of the Hijree, one thousand
two hundred and forty-nine).
E dmund R oberts.
Whereas the undersigned, Edmund Roberts, a citizen of the United States of
America, and a resident of Portsmouth in the State of New Hampshire, being duly
appointed a Special Agent by Letters Patent under the signature of the President,
and seal of the United States of America bearing date at the City of Washington,
the twenty-sixth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-two, for negotiating and concluding a Treaty of Amity and Commerce
between the United States of America and His Majesty Syud Sueed Bin, Sultan
of Maskat: now know ye that I, Edmund Roberts, Special Agent as aforesaid,
do conclude the foregoing Treaty of Amity and Commerce, and every Article and
clause therein contained, reserving the same nevertheless for the final ratification
of the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate of the United States.
Done at the Royal Palace in the City of Maskat in the Kingdom of Oman, on
the 21st day of September, in the year of our Lord 1833, and of the Independence
of the United States of America the fifty-seventh, corresponding to the 6th day
of the Moon, called Jumadee-ul-Awul, in the year Allijra (Hijree) 1249.
E dmund R oberts.
No. 2
T reaty of C ommerce between the S ultan of M uscat and the K ing of the
F rench, dated N ovember 17, 1846—
P reamble .—The King of the French and His H ighness S yud S ueed B in
S ultan , the Sultan of Maskat and other places, being desirous to confirm and
strengthen and good understanding which subsists between them, and to promote
the commercial intercourse between their respective countries, and having come
to the determination of entering into a Treaty of Commerce and Amity, the former
has appointed as his Plenipotentiary Monsieur Romain Desfosses, Captain in the
Navy and Chief of Bourbon and Madagascar, and the latter has resolved
personally to carry on negotiations with the said Plenipotentiary. The Pleni
potentiary of the King of the French having respresented to His Highness the
Imam and Sultan of Maskat that he was vested with the requisite powers has
concluded the following Articles with His H ighness S ueed S yud B in S ultan : —
A rticle 1.
There shall always be good understanding and friendship between the King
of the French, his heirs and successors, and His Highness Syud Sueed bin Sultan,
the Sultan of Maskat, his heirs and successors, as also between their respective
subjects.