'File XVII/1 Naval Bases in the Gulf. Correspondence Concerning Above - Report by P.A. Muscat re. Sultan's Boundaries & Limit of Jurisdiction in Northern Oman' [‎43v] (87/96)

As to the selection or the alternative it is beyond my proviiice
t»o offer, any remarks but I may perhaps be excused for expressing
tie opinion that whichever direction the decision of Government
take there should be no delay in following it up with such pur
suant action as will serve to strengthen the position adopted
against future question.
14. In this latter connection the following possible
measures suggest themselves to me:-
(a.) It will have been gathered from paragraphs 5
and 6 of this report that such jurisdiction as
exists in the tract between Kal-
TKE EXTINCTION OP
JOWASMI JURISDICTION j ba and' Khor Pakan,and again at
. Dibba,is not exercised in any
way by the ruling Jowasmi Chief himself,but that
the said ports having been originally alienated
by his grandfather and uncle are now possessed
by the descendants of the latter; persons who
do not trouble themselves about the tranquility
of the country but who it may be presumed are
merely concerned in making what income they can
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out of it during the date season. In any case
it is evident that at the present epoch the Tiru-
cial Chief of Shafgah who should be responsible
for the maintenance of order in the tract in
question,is unable to control it or to give ad-
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equate protection and justice to persons,like the
Shaikh of Pujaira,residing in it. The result of
this state of things is,as you are aware from
correspondence which has passed between us,that
the non-Jowasmi Shaikhs of Khor Pakan and Pujaira
have during the past year both offered their alle
giance to the Sultan of Muscat and appealed to
him to take the country over and save them from
Jowasmee oppression.
Under these circumstances it seems worthwhile
considering whether the Sultan as soon as he
becomes