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In calculating Royalty for the purpose of this Article account shall not be taken of
any of the substances used by the Company in its operations or used by its employees
die substances10^’ n°r °f any watCf or forci8n matlcr which may be produced with

Article 6
The Company shall not carry on any operations within areas occupied by or
devoted to the purposes of mosques, sacred buildings or graveyards.

Article 7
The Company shall conduct its operations in a workmanlike manner and by
appropriate scientific methods, and shall keep the Shaikh generally informed as to
the progress and result of its drilling operations.

Article 8
Within 3 months after the expiry of each year the Company shall deliver to
the Shaikh a statement of the amount of the substances won and saved and of the
Royalty which is or might have been payable under Articles 5, together with a
report on its operations during the said year. The Shaikh or his representative
shall have the right to check such returns.

Article 9
The Company has the right to import all things necessary for the carrying out
of this enterprise without the payment of any Customs duties or any charges for
import or export or any other taxes: but it shall pay in respect of the personal
belongings of its employees. Apart from this the Company and its employees
shall be exempt from all taxes and imports of all kinds whatsoever. In considera­
tion of this exemption, the Company shall pay 4 annas per ton of oil in addition
to the the 3 rupees provided in Article 5 (cf).
(b) The importation by the Company of firearms and other weapons is pro­
hibited, except with the written permission of the Shaikh.

Article 10
The employees of the Company shall be allowed to enter and leave the territory
at all times without let or hindrance and free of all charges, and the Shaikh shall
grant to the Company’s employees every facility required for the purpose of its
operations. But the Company’s employees shall not take any part in, nor by
their actions create any disturbance in, nor opposition to, the authority of the
Shaikh in the territory. Further, in the event of any of the Company’s employees
—whether a senior or a junior employee—committing an offence which may cause
disorder or interfere with the moral or religious laws or with the politics or subjects
of the territory, or excite these subjects to sedition, then the Shaikh may apply to
the Political Agent, Bahrain, to send the person concerned (if a foreigner) out of
the territory; or, if such person be a subject of the territory, then the Shaikh may
arrest him and judge him according to the laws of Kalbah.
Article 11
For the carrying out of works connected with its enterprise the Company shall
have the right to build and erect all the various descriptions of buildings and
installations and engineering works, and to use all the means of transport and
communkation.mpany transmit free 0f charge on its wireless installations such
of the Shaikh’s messages as will not interfere with the Company’s business.

Article 12

within the territory/and (b) for the transport of the substances by p.pe-lmes or