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operate without hindrance all such means of transportation 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 emer­
gency 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 Com­
pany shall be for its exclusive use. The Company may use for the purpose of
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 adjoining 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 Substances by pipe lines or otherwise over and
across the States 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
(а) The Company shall have free of cost the unrestricted use and occupation
of and surface right 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-
fineries, 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.
(б) 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 existing 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 Com­
pany 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.