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(£) for the transport of the Substances by pipelines or otherwise over and
across the State from and to 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
ia) 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 purchase 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
make use of all present and future 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 Umm-al-Qaiwain.
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
itself 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
Company and its employees. The Company shall erect at its own expense suitable !
buildings for the accommodation of such guards at such places as the Company
shall decide.
Article 16
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
agreed upon between the Shaikh and the Company after the discovery of oil and
the ascertainment of its specific gravity.
The Company shall measure the Substances by a method customarily used in
good technical practice and the Shaikh by his representative duly authorised by
him shall have the right to observe such measuring and to examine and test whatever