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chnn°klC ’ lS °Pcrat.I0rns’ iconic, profits and properly including the Substances
nr an.d frcc.(,unng the period of this Agreement from all present
or luturc harbour duties, import duties, export duties, taxes, imposts and charges
ot any kind whether State or local, tolls and land surface rent of whatever nature,
r .11,1considerationi of the right herein granted the Company shall, after signature
ot the declaration referred to in Article 6, pay to the Sultan within (3) three months
a iu . osc ea°h 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.
This payment of annas four (4) per ton is in addition to the Royalty of
Rupees three (3) and annas (2) for natural gas sold provided in Article 6 hereof.
(b) The importation by the Company of firearms and other weapons is pro­
hibited, except with the written permission of the Sultan.

Article 12
The Company recognises that certain parts of the Sultan's Territory are not
at present safe for its operations. The Sultan undertakes on his part to use his good
offices with a view to making it possible for representatives of the Company to enter
such parts and will inform the Company as soon as such parts become safe.

Article 13
• u a F°r l^e PurPose 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 material or
water which may be available provided always that the inhabitants of the Leased
Area are not prevented 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 transportation by land, air and water
as may be necessary for the effective conduct of its operations hereunder.
(b) The Company shall under normal conditions accept and transmit free of
charge on its wireless and telegraph installations such of the Sultan’s messages as
will not interfere with the Company's business, and in times of national emergency
the Sultan shall have the necessary use free of charge of the Company’s wireless
and telegraph installations and railways for governmental purposes.
(c) The Sultan’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. Any wharves or appur­
tenances 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
Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, but the Company shall not impede or interfere
with the subjects of the Sultan or their right to continue the use of existing
harbours, anchorages, wharves and docks along the coast of the Sultanate of
Muscat and Oman at present utilised by them for their sailing craft and fishing
boats.
Article 14
The Company shall have the right and be given the necessary facilities—
(a) for the import of the Substances into the Leased Area from any adjoining
territory by pipelines or otherwise for the purpose of operating any
refinery which the Company may decide to erect, and
(U\ tn iav down pipelines erect pumping stations tanks and any other works
' and buildings over and on the territory of the Sultanate of Muscat