'SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS AND MEASURES OF THE VICEROYALTY OF HIS EXCELLENCY LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON, VICEROY AND GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA IN THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. I. JANUARY 1899-APRIL 1904. II. DECEMBER 1904-NOVEMBER 1905. VOLUME IV. PERSIA AND THE PERSIAN GULF.' [‎160r] (324/386)

this action, Your Highness has taken no steps to assert your own independ
ence in the matter. Furthermore, Your Highness has, in violation of your
commercial treaty with the British Government, levied, from British subjects,
taxes on commodities from which taxes are not levied from Maskat subjects,
and has levied export duties and import duties at rates which are higher than
those stipulated in the commercial treaty of 1891 with the British Government.
9. I am therefore instructed to make the following demands upon Your
Highness :—
(1) I am to demand the dismissal of Abdul Aziz from all or any employ
ment, either now or at any future period, by Your Highness or by
any one under your authority ;
(2) I am to demand the payment of interest at 5 per cent, from the
present date on the sums still remaining to be paid for distribu
tion to British subjects as indemnity for losses incurred in the
insurrection of 1895 ; ^ . . . . .
(3) I am to demand the cessation of the levy from British subjects in
any part of Your Highness’s dominions of any tax on merchan-
dise which is not levied from Your Highness’s subjects ;
(4A I am to demand the reduction of all import duties to the rate ot
5 per cent, ad valorem, and the reduction to 5 per cent, of the
tax on dates brought from the interior for exportation.
10. I am instructed also to tell Your Highness that, to prevent the
infringement of your rights, you should order all your subjects to use a dl stm c -
[ve fl'i", and should explain that, after the issue ot such an order the grant by
tluf officer of a foreign Power of a foreign flag and the assert,on by such officer
of the rh’ht to protect in the dominions of Your Highness any of Youi Ui^ 11
„ es ‘>s own subjects, is an instigation of such subject to disobey the lawful order
of Ids own sovereign, and, if such instigation is made by a drench official, it
is an infringement of the declaration winch was entered into in the year 1862 by
the Governments of England and Prance to respect the Sultan s independence.
H. Finally, I am to tell Your Highness that, until these demands
have been complied with, no portion of your subsidy, which has been withheld
a llW.’libitu.ll, violate, the »1«»
obligations into which he has entered with them.
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Extract from telegram No. 227-E. A., dated the 10th February 1S99.
p rom His Excellency the Viceroy, Calcutta,
To—Her Majesty’s Secretary of Slate for India, London.
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