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I Boa dofonccs, ns might have been considered to have boon tacitly admitted
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when in the first instanco ho surrendered his guns and towers to bo
destroyed by Sir William Grant Keir and which ho could not have
objected to had it boon formally demanded of him at the time of the Treaty.
But Sultan bin Saggar in his conforonco with Lioutonant Macleod showed so
great an anxiety to establish his right, under the Treaty, to build forts, that
there was little chanoo of his agreoing to relinquish it, unless in return for somo
great concession on our part, and if this could not bo dono in the present
Jl disposition of 8ultan bin Saggar to aggrandizo himself, by establishing his
complete authority ovor tho whole of the Joassmi ports, the omission of tUia
and other important points in tho Treaty must remain over as they wore until
tho British Government should be called on to sond another expedition to
tho Gulf.
805. Viewing, however, tho omission of tho Treaty on this point, tho
Bombay Qovcrnmont had not thought it bocoming the dignity of tho Govern­
i ment to press a measure whioh ho could not ultimately enforce under tho
power of any Treaty.
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300. Tho Government of Bombay informed tho Resident in their letter
No. 997, dated 15th August 1823, that “ there being nothing in the treaties
entitling us to object to this measure, they must of course be considered at
liberty to re-build their forts without any molestation on the part of the British
Government, \f they are so disposed to do”

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