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Article 9
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oy the Company free of customs or export duty and taxes or other charges, but it
snail pay on all personal goods clothing and general merchandise imported by the
Company for the personal use of its employees or for resale to them the ordinary
duty in force for the time being in the State. Saving as in Article 5 and in this
Article provided, the Company, its personnel, its operations, income, profits and
property including the Substances shall be exempt and free during the period ot
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 per ton of Rupees 3 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 pro­
hibited, 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 only with the
written permission of the Shaikh, and the Political Agent, Bahrain, or any authority
deputed by them, 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 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 charge, 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
Ras-al-Khaimah and the employees shall not go beyond the limit of their duties
when employed within or when leaving the confines of the State of Ras-al-Khaimah
for the purpose of this Agreement.
Further in the event of any of the Company’s employees—whether he be a
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 Ras-al-Khaimah 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 Ras-al-Khaimah 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 Ras-al-Khaimah.

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, pipelines 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,
buildings 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 may be available provided always that the inhabitants of the State
not orevented from taking their usual requirements of these materials and that
ill water supply of the local inhabitants and nomad population who may be
Henendent on the same is not endangered. The Company at its discretion may
selectthe position of any such works. The Company may likewise install and