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approved by the Shaikh, excepting technical employees and the
managers and clerks whom the Company may require and whom it cannot
find in the country. And the Shaikh makes it a condition that no
official should be accepted whose retention is disapproved by the
Shaikh, if the Shaikh notices any irregular acts on his part. And
it naturally follows onat the wages which the Company pays to the
employees from amongst Qatr people shall be reasonable.
Article Eighteenth . The Shaikh and the Company declare
that they base action upon this agreement on the basis of good
faith and pure belief and upon the interpretation of this agreement
||l in a manner consistent with reason. And the Company undertakes to
acknowledge the Shaikh's authority and his rights in his capacity
as the Ruler of the Qatr principality and to respect them in every
manner.
If any dispute or quarrel should take place between any
of the foreign employees of the Company and any of the Shaikh's
subjects, their trial shall be held before the Shaikh and in his
Shara (Religious) Courts.
Article nineteenth. Nothing contained in this Agreement
shall prevent the Shaikh in any manner whatsoever from granting
concessions to other parties for anything excepting the substances
mentioned in the first article provided that the said concessions
co not interfere with the rights of the Company or its operations
| in accordance with this agreement.
r^zic^e twentieth. The Company will pay all the sums due
to the Shaikh, in accordance with this agreement, into the Shaikh's
account in the Bank in
and the receipt taken from that Bank shall be a full
- c T^ittance of the Company's liability for the sum mentioned in
the rank's receipt. The Shaikh may, from time to time, appoint
another Bank or other Banks for the purposes of this Article,
this shall be done in writing.