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(2» Jonkhecr de S&vornin Lob man, Doctor of Iaw, etc., Member of
tho Second Chamber of the Netherlands States-General, seleo-
ted by tho French Government; and
(3) Mr. IT. Lammasch, Doctor of Law, Member of the Upper House
of the Austrian Parliament, selected by His Majesty the King
of Italy as Chief Arbitrator : and the result was announoed on
the 8th August.
Tho judgment of the Court of Arbitration was in two parts of three
clauses each.
Part I.
1. Before tho 2nd of January 1892 Prance was entitled to authorize
vessels belonging to subjects of llis Highness the Sultan of Ala skat to fly the
French flag, only bound by ber own legislation and administrative rules.
2. Owners of dbows who before 1S92 have been authorized by France to
fly the French flag retain this authorization as long as France renews it to the
grantee.
3. After 2nd January 1892, Franco was not entitlod to authorize vessels
belonging to subjects of His Highness the Sultan of Maskat to fly the French
flag except on condition that their owners or fitters out bad established or
Bhould establish that they had been considered and treated by France as her
“proteges” before the year 1863.
Part IL
1. Dhows of Maskat authorised as aforesaid to fly the French flag are
entitled in the territorial waters of Maskat to tlie inviolability provided by the
French-Maskat treaty of 1644.
2. The authorization to fly the French flag cannot be transmitted or
transferred to any other person or to any other dhow, even if belonging to the
same owner.
3. Subjects of the Sultan of Maskat, who are owners or masters of
dhows authorized to fly the French flag or who are members of the crews of
such vessels, or who belong to their families, do not enjoy in consequence
of that fact any right of exterritoriality which could exempt them from the
sovereignty, especially from the jurisdiction, of His Highness the Sultan of
Maskat.
Shortly after the issue of the above judgment it was agreed upon be­
tween the Governments of England and France that clause 3 of the 2nd part of
the judgment should come into force without delay but that the question of
investigation of the rights of persons and dhows to fly French flags and all
other matters connected with a settlement according to the arbitration award
should stand over until the return to Maskat of M onsieur Larouce, the perma­
nent incumbent of the French Consulate. Monsieur Laronce arrived in
October, and shortly afterwards he and the Political Agent were instructed
to confer together with a view
(1) .to decide as to the best method of making known to the sub­
jects of the Sultan of Oman the result of the arbitration,
(2) to draw up a list of such subjects henceforth to be allowed to
fly French flags.
The officers concerned agreed at once that the result of the arbitration
should be announced by His Highness the Sultan in the form of a proclama­
tion, and on March 4th M. Laronoe handed to Major Grey a list of perams and
dhows which in his opinion might continue to fly the French flag according? to
the termB of the award. This list is still (April 1st) under examination and
discussion.
VI. His Majesty’s ships havin? been engaged on other duties
_i no ca p­
Slave trade. tures of slave dhows have been nude