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250 TREATIES WITH MUSKAT.

place of shelter, with Captain John Malcolm, Bahadoor, Envoy from
the Right Honorable the Governor General, dated the 21st of Shaban
1214, Hijree (or the 18th January 1800, a. d.).
Article I.
The Kuolnamah entered into on the 1st Jumadee-ool-Awul, Hijree
1213 (12th October 1798), by the Imaum Syucl Sultan, through Nuwab
Etmandood Duola Mchdy Ali Khan Bahadoor Hushmunt Jung, remains
fixed and in full force.
Article II.
As improper reports, of a tendency to interrupt the existing harmony,
and create misunderstanding between the two States, have gone abroad,
and have been communicated to the Right Honorable the Governor
General, the Earl of Mornington, K.P., with a view to prevent such
evils in future, we, actuated by sentiments of reciprocal friendship,
agree that an English gentleman of respectability, on the part of the
Honorable Company, shall always reside at the port of Muskat, and be
an Agent through whom all intercourse between the States shall be
conducted, in order that the actions of each Government may be fairly
and justly stated, and that no opportunity may be afforded to designing
men, who are ever eager to promote dissensions ; and that the friend­
ship of the two States may remain unshaken till the end of time, and
till the sun and moon have finished their revolving career.

Seal of His
Highness
the Imaum
of Muskat.

Sealed in my presence, and delivered to me by the Imaum, on board
the Guv java, on the 18th January 1800.
(Signed) John Malcolm,
Envoy.

Treaty of Commerce between Her Majesty the Queen of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Highness
Sultan Syud Sueed bin Sultan, Imaum of Muskat, dated the
31s* May 1839.
Great
Preamble.—Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kindom of
Britain and Ireland, and His Highness the Sultan of Muskat an its
dependencies, being desirous to confirm and strengthen the good under­
standing which now subsists between them, and to promote, by me^
of a convention, the commercial intercourse between their respec i