ملف ١٩٢٦/٣٩٣٩ الجزء ٦ "تنقيح معاهدات أيتشيسون. قسم الخليج الفارسي." [و‎‎٤‎٥‎٤] (٨١٨/٣٤٣)

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OMAN (MUSCAT)—APPENDIX NO. 11—1844.
jeets of the Sultan at Maskat, or against any Mahomedans, then the cause shall
be decided by the authorities of the Sultan of Maskat, or by his deputy : but
in such case the cause shall not be decided, except in the presence of the French .
Consul, or his deputy, who/shall attend at the Court. In causes between a French
man and a subject of the Sultan of Maskat the evidence of a man proved to have
given false testimony on a former occasion shall not be received. A cause to be
decided by the French Consul shall be tried in the presence of the Sultan of Maskat,
or a person acting for him.
Article 7.
The property of a French subject who may die in any part of the dominions
of the Sultan of Maskat, or of a subject of the Sultan of Maskat who may die in
any part of the French dominions, shall be delivered over to the executor or ad
ministrator of the deceased, or, in default of such executor or administrator, to
the respective Consuls of the contracting parties.
Article 8,
If a Frenchman shall become bankrupt in the dominions of the Sultan of Mae-
kat, the French Consul shall take possession of all the property of such bankrupt,
and shall give it up to the creditors of the bankrupt to be divided among them
This having been done, the bankrupt shall be entitled to a full discharge from
his creditors, and he shall not at any time afterwards be required to make up
the deficiency, nor shall any property he may afterwards acquire be considered
liable for that purpose. But the French Consul shall use his endeavours to ob
tain for the benefit of the creditors all the property of the bankrupt. It shall
4lso be incumbent upon the Consul to ascertain that everything possessed by the
bankrupt at the time when he became insolvent has been given up.
Article 9.
If a subject of the Sultan of Maskat owes a debt to a Frenchman, the Sultan
or h ! 9 deputies shall urge the former to pay the claim of the latter. In like mao
neI > French Consul shall enjoin a Frenchman to pay a debt due by him to a
■abject of the Sultan of Maskat.
Article 10.
tto duty exceeding five per cent, shall be levied on goods imported by French
^ssels into the dominions of Syud Sueed bin Sultan, the Sultan of Maskat. If
a vessel of other nations imports any goods into the territories of the Sultan of
•la-skat, and pays less duty than five per cent., the same duty only shall be levied
11 similar goods imported by a French Vessel into the said territories. A Frenc
ve9 sel after she has paid the duty of five per cent., shall not be subject to any
er c l lar ge8, such as anchorage, pilotages, etc., nor shall any charge be ma e
u that part of the cargo which may remain on board a French vessel, but i t e
sssel shall go to another part of the dominions of the Sultan of Maskat, duty s