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'Muscat Dhows Arbitration. In the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. Grant of the French Flag to Muscat Dhows. The case on behalf of the Government of His Britannic Majesty.' [59av] (131/208)
The record is made up of 1 volume (102 folios). It was created in 1904?-1905?. It was written in English and French. 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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24
VI.—BRITISH ACTION IN OMAN.
The argument based by Prance on the Treaties French Case,
1 dd 37 38
made by Great Britain with the Saltan of Muscat
(1891), the Sheikh of Abu Thabi (1892), and the
Sheikhs of Hadramaut (1888), binding these
Arab potentates to give Great Britain pre-emption
in case of alienation of these territories is ill-
founded : a Treaty stipulating against alienation
of territory or giving a right of pre-emption to
the other contracting party is in no sense incon
sistent with the independence of the State which
gives such pre-emption; indeed, it tends to pre
serve and not to destroy the State which enters
into the arrangement. Erance occupies this
position as regards the Congo Iree State, and
China and Turkey are both under obligations not
to alienate territory.
In the event of an alienation. Great Britain is
to be preferred as purchaser. Other would-be
purchasers may dislike the arrangement, but
cannot assert that the seller has lost his inde
pendence by making the bargain in question.
He is under no compulsion to sell, and if the
bargain has any specific tendency it is towards
maintaining and not diminishing the territory of
the Arab Sovereign in question.
Nor can any sound argument against the
Sultan's independence be drawn from the fact
that Great Britain has agreed to pay him the
Zanzibar subsidy. Greece is admittedly an
independent State, but Great Britain, Prance,
and Bussia make certain contributions to the
civil list of the King, and, at the end of the
Greco-Turkish war, a financial control was
established in the interests of its creditors. The
Ottoman Empire cannot be described as not in
dependent, in spite of the financial assistance
given to it in 1854 by Great Britain and Prance,
the military assistance given in the Lebanon, and
other arrangements which the Sultan has ac
cepted on various occasions. Great Britain is
under obligations to pay to Prance an annual sum
with respect to Pondicherry; but the independence
of neither nation is thereby impaired, and the with
holding of the subsidy on the occasion of disputes
between Great Britain and Muscat is a mere
method (only once adopted) of obtaining a settle
ment of the disputes such as might be adopted
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This file consists of a number of printed reports relating to the arbitration over the granting of French flags to Muscat dhows:
- A printed report in 1904 by the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, relating to the arbitration on the issue of French flags to Omani dhows. An agreement between Britain and France in 1862 committed both governments to respect the independence of the Sultan of Muscat.
- Reply on behalf of the Government of His Britannic Majesty to the Supplementary Conclusions, presented on behalf of the Government of the French Republic and admitted by the tribunal on July 25, 1905.
- The verdict (in French) of the arbitration tribunal.
- Treaty Series (No. 3, 1905) - Agreements between the United Kingdom and France referring to arbitration the question of the grant of the French flag to Muscat Dhows.
- The section on the geography of Oman (ff 58-59A) discusses the French claim with reference to Kiepert's map of 1850. Includes a sketch map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Arabian Coast (folio 91A).
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- 1 volume (102 folios)
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Description: The foliation sequence commences at the title page and terminates at the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Foliation errors: 1, and 1A; 50, and 50A; 59, and 59A; 84, and 84A-C; 88, and 88A; 91, and 91A. Pagination: A number of original typed pagination sequences are also located in the file.
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- 'Muscat Dhows Arbitration. In the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. Grant of the French Flag to Muscat Dhows. The case on behalf of the Government of His Britannic Majesty.'
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- front, back, spine , edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:1v, 1ar:1av, 2r:50v, 50ar:50av, 51r:59v, 59ar:59av, 60r:84v, 84ar:84cv, 85r:93v, back-i
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