'ملف رقم (22/16 II (A66 جوادر' [و‎‎٢‎٨] (٣٨٠/٦٠)

of c^ur Customs, ^hose name deserve b social wont ion la
IT, Jothaml Thawardas, the Cuntons Appraiser and Cashier.
He is i very o"bligirig and ^ell educated man and is* always
prepared to render substantial help to the British ^:ency,
^hen needed.
Import duty is @ ad vo] arem, "but in the
case of fish caught at Gwadur or at sow© subsidiary minor
ports of Our and Pishkan, the Janshus or their Kakhudas are
required to ^ive one out of ten fishes in kind as a tax
on import duty. Bowetises the fish ia valued "by the experts
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and the duty recovered in cash according to the then
market value of the fish, there is no export duty. According
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to the Commercial treaty between the British GoverDirent
and His Highness the Sultan of Muscat, the imports for
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ro-export py the importers -ithii! six months are not snftgec
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to any customs duty, "but quite recently in about November
19r?, transhipment to and from (""iftur G n^ and Ji^ni etc.,
was stopped by the i useat Customs department. This
unexpected step was followed by nurero s representations
t*hich are still und^r contemplation of the State. Details
about imports anl exports have been cited isx sore^iere
else in this report#
Tool, fchee, cotton that come the
interior for local consumption are not charted any duty
"but fe.rains, firewood, charcoal, dates, talw tree leaves
and mattings etc., are charted the proper import duties.
The -system in Owadirr is that all articles
brought from the interior are first placed in the local
Customs Yard called "Arsah* locally. 4fter the necessary
import duty is recovered, the articles are put to public
auction and the highest bidder has to pay -/1/- over and
above of the purchase roney, irrespective of the weight
anr! v-^lue of the auctioned article. Such petty collec
tions "which vary from Hs 4 to 10 daily are then ins t ant-
aniously credited to the account of the local Municipal
Committee or "Saladiah" organised in about f 113