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TREATIES WITH MUSK AT. 259

confirm the same, for ourselves, our heirs and successors. Accordingly,
we do, by our word, promise and engage, sincerely and faithfully, to
perform all and everything set forth and contained in the aforesaid
Treaty; and further, that to the utmost of our power we will allow no
one to violate or infringe this Engagement in any way whatsoever.
In witness whereof, we have directed our seal to be affixed to this
document, which we have signed with our own hand, in this our Port
of Muskat, this 22nd day of Jumadee-ool-Awul, a. h. 1256 (according
to 22nd July 1840 of the Christian era).
(Signed) Syud Sueed.
Seal of His
Highness
the Imaum
of Muskat.

(True translation)
(Signed) S. Hennell,
Resident in the Persian Gulf.

Rules established by His Highness the Imaum of Muskat, i?i April
1846, in regard to the Duties to be hereof ter charged on the Car-
goes of Vessels putting into His Highness9 Ports.
In a letter dated the 13th April 1846, Captain Atkins Hamerton, Her
Majesty’s Consul, and Honorable Company’s Agent, in the dominions of
His Highness the Imaum of Muskat, reported that His Highness the
Imaum of Muskat had ordered the following Rules to be henceforth
observed in regard to the landing or transhipment of the cargoes of
vessels putting into Muskat, or into any of His Highness’ other ports:—
Is*.—That the full duty of five per cent, shall be levied on all articles
transhipped from one vessel into another in all the ports and harbours
belonging to His Highness the Imaum.
2nd.—That a vessel of any nation being obliged to put into any of
His Highness’ ports through stress of weather, or for the purpose of refit,
Bhall not be required to pay duty on any part of her cargo which may
be landed and stored during the repair of the vessel, provided it be
re-embarked in her.
3rd.—That no duty shall, under any circumstances whatever, bo
levied on stores, the property of the British Government, when landed at
any of His Highness’ ports.