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Art. 4. American citizens to pay no other duties or charge whatever,
beyond those paid by the most favoured nation.
Art. G. Persons escaping from shipwreck to bo taken care of at the ex­
pense of the Imam, without remuneration ; property saved from
wrecks to bo carefully preserved and delivered to the owner or
tho Oonsul of the United States or to any authorized agent.
Art. 6. Citizens of tho United States to bo permitted to land and reside
in any of tho ports of tho Imaum, subjoot only to tho same restric­
tions as tho most favoured nation.
Art. 7. Oitizons of tho United States taken by pirates and carried into
tho ports of tho Imam to bo released and their property restored
to thorn.
Art. 8. Vossols belonging to subjects of tho Imam visiting the ports of
the United 8tates to pay no other or higher duties than the most
favoured nation.
Art. 9. Tho President of tho United States may appoint Consuls to re-
sido in tho ports of the Imam where the principal commerce
shall be carried on ; these Consuls to be judges of all disputes or
suits wherein Amoiioan oitizons may be engaged with each other
and invested with othor powers respecting the oitizens of the United
States. Tho Consuls and their household to bo inviolate, punish­
able for offences by the President only.
321-H. On the receipt of this communication the Bombay Government
furnished a copy thereof to the Governor-General for any instructions which
His Lordship might be pleased to send to thorn relative to the offer of His
Highness to break tho Treaty with the Americans which he apparently through
ignorance had made.
321-1. Before receiving any reply to this communication Sir John Gore
furnished the Bombay Government with a copy of a communication which
ho had received from Lord William Bentinok in which His Lordship stated
that although he regretted that such arrangement had been entered into by His
Highness the Imam with the Americans, yet he could not discover any
tenable ground upon which the British interference to annul or modify its
provisions could bo exorcised. At the same time His Lordship doubted the
propriety and expediency of accepting tho Imam’s offer to break this engage­
ment.
321-J. Whilst Captain Hart was at Zanzidar, the Imam requested him
to accept, as a present for the King of England, of the Liverpool, a seventy-
four-gun ship built some years for His Highness at Bombay, which point he
appeared to press very much, as she was, His Highness observed, too large for
his service, but receiving the offer of the Imam in connection with the over­
tures made to Captain Hart to break faith with the Americans who had already
began to quarrel with His Highness, the Governor-General doubted the
propriety and expediency of accepting this vessel, and observed that if under
these circumstances His Highness’s offer were accepted it might be construed
into an intention to support him against the Americans, whioh it was desirable
to avoid.
821-K. The Admiral accordingly addressed His Highness returning the
original Treaty brought down by Captain Hart, intimating to him ho could not
pledge himself that the British Government would support him in breaking
faith with the Americans, and that the acceptance of the Liverpool for the
King of England if considered as a pledge for any purpose, he must decline it
until he received full instructions from England on the subject.
321-L. In a letter from the Imam to his Agent in Bombay, His Highness
directed him to represent to the Bombay Government that on the 28th April
1834, a Erenoh frigate arrived at Zanzibar from Bourbon for the purpose of
negotiating new Treaties of offensive and defensive alliance with His Highness;
that they solicited his assistance in an attack on a place called Belamboo or
Bembatooka, that they promised in like manner to aid him whenever he might
require their assistance, that their second proposition was whether His
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