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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.' [86r] (190/208)
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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the Brussels Conference of July 2, 1890 relative to the African Slave Trade,
especially to article 32 of this Act, are entitled to authorize native vessels
to fly their flags,
Whereas by article 32 of this Act the faculty of the Signatory
Powers to grant their flag to native vessels has been limited for the
purpose of suppressing sluve trading and in the general interests of
humanity, irrespective of whether the applicant for the flag may belong
to a state signatory of this Act or not, and whereas at any rate France
is in relation to Great Britain bound to grant her flag only under the
conditions prescribed by this Act,
Whereas in order to attain the above mentioned purpose, the
Signatory Powers of the Brussels Act have agreed in its article 32 that
the authority to fly the flag of one of the Signatory Powers shall in
future only be granted to such native vessels, which shall satisfy all the
three following conditions:
1. Their fltters-out or owners must be either subjects of or persons
protected by the Power whose flag they claim to fly,
2. They must furnish proof that they possess real estate situated
in the district of the authority to whom their application is
addressed, or supply a solvent security as a guarantee for
any fines to which they may eventually become liable,
3. Such fitters-out or owners, as well as the captain of the vessel,
must furnish proof that they enjoy a good reputation, and
especially that they have never been condemned for acts of
slave trade.
Whereas in default of a definition of the term "prot6g6" in the
General Act of the Brussels Conference this term must be under
stood in the sense which corresponds best as well to the elevated
aims of the Conference and its Final Act, as to the principles of the
law of nations, as they have been expressed in treaties existing at
that time, in internationally recognized legislation and in international
practice.
Whereas the aim of the said article 32 is to admit to navigation
in the seas infested by slave trade only those native vessels which are
under the strictest surveillance of the Signatory Powers, a condition
which can only be secured if the owners, fitters-out and crews of such
vessels are exclusively subjected to the sovereignty and jurisdiction of the
State, under whose flag they are sailing,
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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.'
- Pages
- 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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