File 3939/1926 Pt 6 'Revision of Aitchison's Treaties. Persian Gulf Section.' [‎497r] (429/818)

XIV—1873 & XV—1875.
Majesty, and the ratification shall
In witness whereof, Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, on behalf of Her Majesty
ribe Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Ireland and Syud Toorkee
bin Saeed, Sultan of Muscat, on his own behalf, have signed the same and have
affixed thereto their respective seals.
Done at Muscat this fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three.
H. B. E. Frere.
Syud Toorkee bin Saeed.
OMAN (MUSCAT)—NOS. XIII—1873,
- Article 5.
The present Treaty shall be ratified by Her
be forwarded to Muscat as soon as possible.*
No. XIV.
Agreement entered into by the Sultan of Muscat relative to the jurisdiction o
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. and Consul over subjects of Native States in India
residing in the Muscat Dominions.
Whereas it is desirable that all subjects of Native States in India residing in
Muscat territories should be amenable to the jurisdiction of the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
and Consul at Muscat, and it would appear that such jurisdiction is at present
defective without the express consent of His Highness the Sultan: It is hereby
formally declared and consented to by His Highness Syud Toorkee bin Saeed OB
behalf of himself, his heirs and successors, that subjects of Native States of India
who may commit offences within the Muscat dominions shall be amenable to the
Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. and Consul's Court in the same way as British subjects whenever,
^ any perticular case, the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. thinks fit to exercise such jurisdiction,
and that the words “ British subjects ” in all Treaties between the English Gov-
wnment and the Muskat State shall include subjects of Native Indian States.
Toorkee bin Saeed.
No. XV.
Translated purport of a letter from His Highness Syud Toorkeb, Sultan
of Muscat, to Major S. B. Miles, Her Britannic Majesty’s PoLmoAL
Agent and Consul, Muscat,— dated 3rd Mohurrum 1291 t e ru
1875.
I have received your letter of the 2nd instant, and have understood its 00
tents. I abide by the agreement made by my father with the Bnti ve
naent regarding the Customs duties leviable on goods landed from 18 J 68 ?
v essels. For example, if a vessel that puts into Muscat for repairs, an
Car go in order to undergo such rep airs, and re-ships her cargo or puts it in a
* Delivered to the Sultan in September 1873-