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PART I—CHAPTER V.
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Guzerat and Malabar to the Gulf, as wc do to the richest European or Native Merchant
settled at our large seaports. Agreeably to the statement lately received from the Resi­
dent in the Persian Gulf it appears, that about $ of the Trade from India to Bushire is
carried on by Native and Arab craft. This is certainly a large proportion but as tending
to encourage and keep up a commercial spirit it ought rather to be a matter of congratu­
lation to us than otherwise.”
This report of the Resident was submitted to the Government of India,
who passed the orders noted below:—
Extract from the Proceedings of the Right Honourable the Governor General
of India in Council, in the General Department, under date the 30th August
1857-
SEPARATE.
Customs.
Read again Resolution dated 9th November 1836.
Read again Resolution dated 5th April 1837.
Extract from the Proceedings of the Government of India in the Political
Department under date the 1st May recorded in Proceeding dated 10th May 1837.
Notification recorded in Proceedings of this Department dated 14th June.
Read an extract from the Proceedings of the Government of India in the
Political Department dated 31st July.
The Right Hon’ble the Governor General of India in Council remarks that Arab
Vessels have already been ordered to be received on terms of reciprocity at the Ports of the
Bengal Presidency by the orders of this Department dated the 14th June last. The same
principle will be acted upon in respect to other Presidencies, in case the custom laws
should place Foreign Asiatic Nations on the same footing as the law for Bengal, so as
to require that the Governor General of India in Council should bring into operation
the powers conferred on him by Act No. 14 of 1837 for the purpose of admitting Native
States and countries which admit British vessels to trade with them on equal terms with
Natives to the benefit of a reciprocal indulgence.
Ordered that a copy of the foregoing remark be sent to the Political Depart­
ment in reply to the extract above recorded.

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