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             6. A vessel (excluding those under 3 above) shall not in any calendar year
         beginning 1st January be required to pay light dues on more than 6 voyages
         to the area or for more than 6 periods of 30 days. This will come into operation
         as from 1st January, 1951.
             Note.—Fractions over { ton will be counted as 1 ton and fractions under V ton
         will be ignored for accounting purposes.
             The following vessels are exempt from payment of light dues: —
                 1.  Warships unless carrying cargo or passengers.
                 2.  Vessels putting in for bunker fuel, stores or provisions for their own
             use on board.
                 3.  Vessels putting in from stress of weather, or for the purpose of repairing
             or because of damage, provided they do not discharge or load cargo other
             than cargo discharged with a view to such repairs and afterwards reshipped.
                 4.  All sailing ships irrespective of tonnage.
                 5.  Sea-going tugs and all ships below 50 net registered tons.
         Method oj Payment
             Light dues for both entry in and departure from the Persian Gulf area are
         payable at a vessel’s first port of call in the Persian Gulf at which the Persian Gulf
         Lighting Service is represented and the Light Dues Certificate issued by the Persian
         Gulf Lighting Service Collecting Agent will remain valid until the vessel departs
         from the Persian Gulf area, provided the vessel does not come within the 60 or
         30 day rules (Nos. 3 and 4). The light dues of vessels permanently based on Gulf
         ports will be paid at the port at which a vessel is normally based.
             Notes.—(1) The Persian Gulf Lighting Service reserves the right, with or
         without prior notice, to alter these rules including rates of dues payable as may be
         deemed necessary.
             (2) All services rendered by the Company in connection with the provision
         and/or maintenance of all or any navigational aids within the limits of and the
         approaches to the Persian Gulf area whether on land or sea are rendered upon the
         the express condition that no liability whatever shall attach to the company for
         loss or damage however caused which'may result or arise from the rendering of the
         said services and/or from the provision or maintenance of the said aids or from
         any failure to provide or maintain the same, and all dues and/or contributions fixed
         collected paid or received for or in respect of or in connection with the said services
         shall be deemed to be fixed collected paid and received upon the express condition
         that no such liability as aforesaid shall attach to the company by reason of such
         fixing collection payment or receipt.
             Jst October, 1950.
                 (Amended 1st January, 1951.)




                                     APPENDIX B
                                     (Paragraph 40)
         Circular Memorandum on the Manumission of Slaves, issued by the British
                          Residency, Bahrain, on January 16, 1954

             1.  Any slave applying for manumission to a Political Agent or Political
         Officer should be given a manumission certificate after investigation and subject
         to the other provisions of this memorandum.
             2.  All cases of manumission should be reported to the Political Resident.
             3.  Slaves applying for manumission may be accommodated at the Political
         Agency to which they have applied while their cases are under consideration.
         After they have received their certificates they should be discharged
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