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Article 8
Within three months after the expiry of each calendar year, the Company shall
deliver to the Shaikh a statement of the amount of the Substances won and 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 5, together
with a report of its operations during the said year. The Shaikh or his represen­
tative shall have the right to check such returns and statements, and all such
returns and statements and the reports of the Company’s operations shall be treated
as confidential by the Shaikh.
Article 9
(a) The Company shall have the right to import water, the Substances, fuel,
machinery, motor-cars and lorries, aircraft, equipment, plant, timber, utensils, iron
work, building materials, food supplies, medicines, medical supplies, office equip­
ment and household furniture, and other materials, equipment and goods of what­
soever nature required by the Company and its employees for the purpose of its
operations hereunder and to export the Substances and articles previously imported
by the Company free of customs or export duty and taxes or other charges. Saving
as in Article 5 and in this Article provided, the Company, its personnel, its opera­
tions, income, profits and property including the Substances shall be exempt and
free during the period of this Agreement from all present or future harbour duties,
import duties, export duties, taxes, imposts and charges of any kind whether State
or local, tolls and land surface rent of whatever nature.
In consideration of the right herein granted the Company shall pay in addition
to the Royalty of Rupees (3) three per ton as provided in Article 5—to the Shaikh
within (3) three months after the close of each calendar year the sum of (4) four
annas 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 Company of firearms and other weapons is
prohibited, except with the written permission of the Shaikh.
(c) The Company may import such alcoholic drinks and liquors as the
Company may require for the use of their foreign employees, but the Company
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 by them within the State.

Article 10
The employees of the Company shall be allowed to enter into and to leave the
State 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
the Company’s operations hereunder.
But the Company’s employees shall not interfere or by their actions cause any
disturbance or cause opposition to the Shaikh’s authority within the State of Ajman
and the employees shall not go beyond the limit of their duties when employed
within or when leaving the confines of the State of Ajman for the purpose of this
Agreement.
Further in the event of any of the Company’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 State of Ajman or excite them to sedition, then the Shaikh may apply to
the Political Agent, Bahrain, to send the person concerned—if a foreigner—out of
the State of Ajman but if a Subject of the Shaikh then the Shaikh may arrest the
culprit and deal with him according to the laws of the State of Ajman.

Article 11
(a) For the purpose of its operations hereunder the Company shall have the
right without hindrance to construct, maintain and operate power stations,
refineries, pipe-lines, and storage tanks, facilities for water supply including boring
for water, telegraph and telephone lines and installations and wireless installations,
roads, railways, tramways, buildings, ports, harbours, harbour works, aircraft,
building and landing places for aircraft, wharves and jetties, oil and coaling stations,
with such lighting as may be requisite and any other facilities or works which the
Company may consider necessary and for such purposes to use free of all payments
any stone, sand, gravel, gypsum, lime, clay or similar materials or water which
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