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256 TREATIES WITH MUSK AT.

therein, and in the same manner as the ships and vessels of Her
Britannic Majesty.
Article XVI.
It is further acknowledged and declared by the high contracting
parties, that nothing in this Convention is in any way intended to
interfere with or rescind any of the rights or privileges now enjoyed by
the subjects of His Highness the Sultan of Muskat, in respect to
commerce and navigation, within the limits of the East India Company’s
Charter.
Article XVII.
The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof
shall be exchanged, at Muskat or Zanzibar, as soon as possible, and in
any case within the space of fifteen months from the date hereof.
Done on the Island and at the Town of Zanzibar, this thirty-fa st day of
May, in the year of Christ eighteen hundred and thirty-nine (corres-
ponding with the seventeenth of the month Rubee-ool-Awul, of the
Hijree, twelve hundred and fifty-five).
(Signed) R. Cogan.

' Seal N Seal of His High­
of Captain ness the Imaum of
V Cogan. j Muskat.

(Signed) Husun bin Ibrahim. (Signed) Ali bin Nasir.

Translation of a Note from His Highness the Imaum of Muskat to
Captain Hen^ell, dated 22nd July 1840.
A. C.
I have the honour to intimate to you, that I have now appointed my
friend Syud Mahomed bin SyudShuruf, my Vukeel,to wait upon you for
the purpose of exchanging the ratifications of the Treaty. He is my
Plenipotentiary in th-is affair.
(Signed) Syud Sueed.
Seal of His
Highness the
Imaura of
Muskat.
(True translation)
(Signed) S. Hennell,
Resident, Persian Gulf.

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