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not impede or interfere with the subjects of the Shaikh, or their right to continue
me use ol existing harbours, anchorages, wharves and docks along the coast of the
State at present utilised by them for their sailing craft and fishing boats.
Article 12
The Company shall have the right and be given the necessary facilities—
{a) for the import of the substances into the State from any adjoining territory
by pipe-lines or otherwise for the purpose of operating any refinery
W 1,ch the Company may decide to erect within the State; and
\b) for the transport of the substances by pipe-lines or otherwise over and
across the State from and to any adjoining territory to any point suit­
able for the refining or shipping of the substances.
And no duties, taxes, charges or dues of any nature whatsoever shall be levied
in respect of such import or transport.
Article 13
(o) The Company shall have free of cost the unrestricted use and occupation of
and surface rights over all uncultivated lands of the State which the Company
may need for the purpose of its operations and in particular the Company shall
have the right to select an area or areas of land chosen by the Company with
exclusive surface rights upon which to erect drilling rigs, pump-stations, oil
refineries, storage, terminal shipping and aircraft facilities and any other works
required for the Company’s operations; and the Company may lease for such
purposes any lands, houses or buildings with the consent of and on conditions to
be arranged with the proprietors thereof, but the terms of such lease shall not be
in excess of those ordinarily current in their respective localities.
(b) The Company shall acquire only such lands, houses and buildings as are
necessary for its operations under this Agreement. The Company shall inform the
Shaikh from time to time of the land, houses and buildings which it requires to
occupy for its operations; and land, houses and buildings previously acquired by
the Company from the Shaikh but found no longer necessary for its operations shall
be returned by the Company to the Shaikh free of cost.
Article 14
(a) The Company shall have the right to purchase at current market rates fuel,
water, food, building and constructional materials and other supplies of every kind
in connection with its operations hereunder; further the Shaikh grants to the Com­
pany the right to construct new roads for motor and general traffic, and to make use
of all existing roads or tracks free of charge or taxes of any kind whatever.
(b) The Company shall employ subjects of the Shaikh as far as possible for all
work for which they are suited under the supervision of the Company’s skilled
employees, but if the local supply of labour should in the judgment of the Company
be inadequate or unsuitable the Company shall have the right to import labour,
preference being given to labourers from neighbouring Arab countries who will
obey the local laws. The Company shall also have the right to import skilled and
technical employees. The Company shall pay to the workmen it employs a fair
wage, such wage to be decided and stated by the Company at the time the workmen
are engaged.
Further, the fact of the Company 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 the Ruler of the State of Sharjah.
Article 15
The Shaikh shall give to the Company and its employees and property all
protection in his power from theft, highway robbery, assault, wilful damage and
destruction, and the Company may appoint in consultation with the Shaikh and