"التحكيم في قضية مراكب الداو الشراعية في مسقط. محكمة التحكيم الدائمة في لاهاي. السماح برفع الأعلام الفرنسية على مراكب الداو الشراعية في مسقط. القضية بالنيابة عن الحكومة البريطانية". [و‎‎٨‎٦] (٢٠٨/١٩٠)

the Brussels Conference of July 2, 1890 relative to the African Slave Trade,
especially to article 32 of this Act, are entitled to authorize native vessels
to fly their flags,
Whereas by article 32 of this Act the faculty of the Signatory
Powers to grant their flag to native vessels has been limited for the
purpose of suppressing sluve trading and in the general interests of
humanity, irrespective of whether the applicant for the flag may belong
to a state signatory of this Act or not, and whereas at any rate France
is in relation to Great Britain bound to grant her flag only under the
conditions prescribed by this Act,
Whereas in order to attain the above mentioned purpose, the
Signatory Powers of the Brussels Act have agreed in its article 32 that
the authority to fly the flag of one of the Signatory Powers shall in
future only be granted to such native vessels, which shall satisfy all the
three following conditions:
1. Their fltters-out or owners must be either subjects of or persons
protected by the Power whose flag they claim to fly,
2. They must furnish proof that they possess real estate situated
in the district of the authority to whom their application is
addressed, or supply a solvent security as a guarantee for
any fines to which they may eventually become liable,
3. Such fitters-out or owners, as well as the captain of the vessel,
must furnish proof that they enjoy a good reputation, and
especially that they have never been condemned for acts of
slave trade.
Whereas in default of a definition of the term "prot6g6" in the
General Act of the Brussels Conference this term must be under
stood in the sense which corresponds best as well to the elevated
aims of the Conference and its Final Act, as to the principles of the
law of nations, as they have been expressed in treaties existing at
that time, in internationally recognized legislation and in international
practice.
Whereas the aim of the said article 32 is to admit to navigation
in the seas infested by slave trade only those native vessels which are
under the strictest surveillance of the Signatory Powers, a condition
which can only be secured if the owners, fitters-out and crews of such
vessels are exclusively subjected to the sovereignty and jurisdiction of the
State, under whose flag they are sailing,