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258 TREATIES WITH MUSKAT.

Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
having received from Samuel Hennell, Esquire, a Captain in tlm
Military Service of the East India Company, and Resident in the
Persian Gulf, appointed to act in this matter on behalf of Her said
Majesty, a declaration stating that, in order to avoid
any possible
misunderstanding as to the meaning of the words “any other charge by.
Government whatever,” contained in the 9th Article of the said Treaty,
the aforesaid words are by Her Majesty taken and understood to mean
“ any other charge whatever made by the Government, or by any local
authority of the Government,” the undersigned Synd Mahomed bin
Syud Shuruf, being duly authorised by His Highness the Sultan of
Muskat, hereby accepts and adopts the said declaration, in the name
and on .the behalf of His Highness the Sultan of Muskat.
Muskat, this 22nd day of July 1840.
(Signed) Syud Mahomed bin Syud Shuruf.

Seal of Syud
Mahomed hiu
Syud Shuruf.
The undersigned having met together for the purpose of exchanging
the ratifications of a Treaty of Commerce between Her Majesty the
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and His
Highness the Sultan of Muskat, concluded and signed at Zanzibar on
the 31st day of May 1839, and the respective ratifications of the said
Instrument having been carefully perused, the said exchange took place
this day, in the usu,al form.
In witness whereof, they have signed the present certificate of ex­
changes, and have affixed thereto their respective seals.
Done at Muskat, the twenty-second day of July 1840.
(Signed) S. Hennell, (Signed) Syup Mahomed bin Syud
SlIURUF.

Seal of Seal of Syud Maho­
Captain med bin Syud Shuruf^
Hennell.

Translation of the Ratification of His Highness the Imaum

Muskat to the foregoing Treaty of Commerce.
We, having duly considered the Treaty ^andClausIs
approved, accepted, and confirmed the several Ar * a|1d
therein set forth, and by this document do hereby approv. ,

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