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reasonable rights and facilities for his operations under this Agreement including
(but not thereby limited to): —
(i) the right to build, construct, maintain, operate and use all sorts of buildings,
installations, communications and transport systems, and engineering
works of every description,
(ii) the right to construct new roads for motor and general traffic and to make
use of existing roads or tracks free of charge or taxes of any kind,
(iii) to use free of all payments to the Shaikh any stone, sand, gravel, lime,
gypsum, clay or water that may be available and may be required for
his operations provided always that the inhabitants of Dubai, and
Petroleum Concessions Ltd., and its successors in title shall not be
deprived of their usual requirements of those materials, that irrigation
is not prejudiced, that no land, habitation or watering place for animals
is deprived of a reasonable supply of water and that the water supply
of the inhabitants is not endangered and that none of the Substances
taken under this Article shall be exported by the Concessionaire.
(b) In the event that any land in Dubai required by the Concessionaire belongs
to a private individual or company the Shaikh will lend every reasonable assistance
to the Concessionaire to enable him to acquire for his use such land at prices ruling
for similar lands in the district.
(c) The Concessionaire shall under normal conditions accept and transmit free
of charge on his wireless and telegraph installations such of the Shaikh’s messages
as will not interfere with the Concessionaire’s business, and in times of national
emergency the Shaikh shall have the necessary use free of charge of the Con­
cessionaire’s wireless and telegraph installations and railways for Governmental
purposes.

Article 10
(a) The Concessionaire shall have the right to purchase at current market
rates fuel, water, food, building and constructional materials and other supplies
of every kind in connexion with his operations hereunder.
(b) The Concessionaire shall employ Subjects of the Shaikh as far as possible
for all work for which they are suited under the supervision of the Concessionaire’s
skilled employees, but if the local supply of labour should in the judgment of
the Concessionaire be inadequate or unsuitable the Concessionaire shall have the
right to import labour, preference being given to labourers from neighbouring Arab
countries who will obey the local laws. The Concessionaire shall also have the
right to import skilled and technical employees. The Concessionaire shall pay
to the workmen he employs a fair wage, such wage to be decided by the Con­
cessionaire at the time the workmen are engaged.
Further, the fact of the Concessionaire employing Subjects of the Shaikh shall
not in any way whatever alter the status of such employees in respect of their rights,
privileges and duties as Subjects of the Shaikh, and such employees will remain—
in all ways—subject to the jurisdiction of the laws and under the legal authority
of the Shaikh, in his capacity as Shaikh of Dubai.

Article 11
The Shaikh shall give to the Concessionaire and his employees and property
all protection in his power from theft, highway robbery, assault, wilful damage
and destruction, and the Concessionaire may appoint in consultation with the
Shaikh and himself pay trustworthy guards who shall at all times be Subjects of
the Shaikh unless the Shaikh permits otherwise to assist in protecting the property
of the Concessionaire and his employees. The Concessionaire shall provide at
his own expense suitable accommodation for such guards.

Article 12
In measuring the Substances for purposes of royalty the factor for conversion
of the volume of oil into weight shall be such figure as may be determined and
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