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may be available (provided always that the inhabitants of the State are not pre­
vented from taking their usual requirements of these materials and that the water
supply of the local inhabitants and nomad population who may be dependent on
the same is not endangered.] The Company at its discretion may select the
position of any such works. The Company may likewise install and operate
without hindrance all such means of transportations by land, air and water as may
be necessary for the effective conduct of its operations hereunder provided it is for
the purposes of this Agreement.
(/;) The Company shall under normal conditions accept and transmit free of
charge on its wireless and telegraph installations such of the Shaikh’s messages as
will not interfere with the Company’s business, (and in times of national emergency
the Shaikh shall have the necessary use free of charge of the Company’s wireless
and telegraph installations and railways for Governmental purposes.]
(c) The Shaikh’s ships shall have the right to use harbours utilised or con­
structed by the Company provided that such use in no way hampers the Company
or interferes in any way with the safety of its operations of which the Company
shall be the sole judge. Any wharves or appurtenances constructed by the
Company shall be for its exclusive use. The Company may use for the purpose
of its operations the harbours along the coast of the State, but the Company shall
not impede or interfere with the subjects of the Shaikh or their right to continue the
use of 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 adjointing territory
by pipe-lines or otherwise for the purpose of operating any refinery
which the Company may decide to erect within the State, and
(b) for the transport of the Substance by pipe-lines or otherwise over and
across the State from and in any adjoining territory to any point suitable
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
{a) 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 buy or 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 purchases or 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
Company the right to construct new roads for motor and general traffic, and to
n^ake use of all present and future roads or tracks free of charge, or taxes of any
^ind whatever^.Qj^pany $hall empioy Subjects of the Shaikh as far as possible for all
vyork for which they are suited under the supervision of the Company’s skilled