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saved, and in the case of natural gas produced and sold during the said calendar
year, and of the royalty which is or might have been payable under Article 4,
together with a report of his operations during the said year. The Shaikh or his
representative shall have the right to check such returns and statements, and all
such returns and statements and the reports of the Concessionaire’s operations shall
be treated as confidential by the Shaikh.
Article 7
{a) The Concessionaire shall have the right to import water, the Substances,
luel, machinery, motor cars and lorries, aircraft, equipment, plant, timber, utensils,
iron work, building materials, food supplies, medicines, medical supplies, office
equipment and household furniture, and other materials, equipment and goods of
whatsoever nature required by the Concessionaire and his employees for the
purpose of his operations hereunder and to export the Substances and articles
previously imported by the Concessionaire free of customs or export duty and taxes
or other charges but he shall pay on all personal goods, clothing and general
merchandise imported by the Concessionaire for the personal use of his employees
or for resale to them the ordinary duly in force for the time being in the State.
Saving as in Article 4, and in this Article provided, the Concessionaire, his
personnel, his operations, capital, income, profit and property including the
Substances shall be exempt and free during the period of this Agreement from all
present or future import duties, export duties, taxes, imposts and charges of any
kind whether State or local, tolls and land surface, rent of Whatever nature.
Provided that nothing herein contained shall relieve the Concessionaire from
liability to pay rent for any building or other property hired from the Shaikh or
any of his Subjects.
In consideration of the right herein granted the Concessionaire shall pay in
addition to the Royalty of $h.4/6<7. Sterling per ton as provided in Article 4
hereof to the Shaikh within 3 calendar months of the close of each calendar year
the sum of sixpence Sterling per English ton of 2,240 lbs. in respect of the
Substances won and saved during the said calendar year.
(b) The importation by the Concessionaire of firearms and other weapons is
prohibited except with prior permission of the appropriate authority.
(c) The Concessionaire may import such alcoholic drinks and liquors as the
Concessionaire may require for the use of his foreign employees but only with
the written permission of the Shaikh, and the Political Agent, Bahrain, or any
authority deputed by them, but the Concessionaire shall not sell or give alcoholic
drinks or liquors to the Subjects of the Shaikh or to the Subjects of adjoining
Rulers who may be employed within the State.

Article 8
The employees of the Concessionaire shall be allowed to enter into and leave
the Shaikhdom at all times without let or hindrance and free of all charges, and the
Shaikh shall grant to the Concessionaire’s employees every facility required for the
purpose of the operations hereunder.
But the Concessionaire’s employees shall not interfere or by their actions cause
any disturbance or cause opposition to the Shaikh’s authority within the Shaikhdom
and the employees shall not go beyond the limit of their duties when employed
within or when leaving the confines of the Shaikhdom for the purpose of this
Agreement^r ^ eyent of any 0f the Concessionaire’s employees—whether he be
a senior or a junior employee—committing an offence which may cause disorder
or interfere with the moral or religious laws or interfere with the politics or Subjects
of the Shaikhdom or excite them to sedition, then the Shaikh may apply to the
aDDrooriate authority to send the person concerned—if a foreigner—out of the
Shaikhdom but if a Subject of the Shaikh then the Shaikh may arrest the culprit
and deal with him according to the laws of the Shaikhdom.

Article 9
t„) Subiect to the approval of the Shaikh, which shall not be unreasonably
w and to existing prior rights particularly those granted by the Shaikh to
withheld, and to existing p ^ .g jn tjtle the Concessionaire shall have
hi trhieareaCmentioned in Article 1, or elsewhere in the Shaikhdom of Dubai al.