"الملف 35/85 III A 10 مسألة الأعلام الفرنسية" [و‎‎١‎٨‎٥] (٦١٠/٣٨٠)

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Translation of official leiytyer from the French Consul
to the Sultan dated IQth November 190&.
After Compliments,
I have the honour to send to Your High
ness,. with this letter, all the papers relating to the sentence
pronounced "by the Hague Arbitration Tribunal on the 8th August
last in connection with Muscat Dhows. The Government of the
French Republic intend fully to carry out that sentence, and
hope that the statement thereof is (clear) enough to enable the
difficulty to be unravelled according to the settlement. My
High Government has given me permission to explain to Your High
ness that, according to the last clause of the said sentence,
she will regard from to-day that those of your subjects who are
the owners or masters of dhows authorised to fly French flags,
or who are members of the crews of such vessels, or who belong
to their families do not possess in this connection right of
ex-territoriality, and are not exempt from Your Highness*
sovereignty and Jurisdiction. So the hope of my Oovernment is
that when I send such a person to your court that person should
be treated with Justice and equity always, whenever he comes to
your court, and that such persons should enjoy special consi-
d^ation^and Just dealing on account of the French flag so that
tyranny ov oppression or retaliation should come upon them.
The persons coming under this category must be Your Highness'
subjects born in Oman only; as regards Arabs who can prove
French title^ or (themselves to be) French subjects, they will
always remain under the protection of the French Consul at Muscat.
This is what had to be explained, may you be guarded and salaam.
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Obscure, but the meaning will appear when the names are
discussed.