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and Oman for the purpose of transporting the substances from any
territory adjoining the Sultanate suitable .for the refining or shipping
of'the substances which the Company may select.
And no duties, taxes, charges or dues of any nature whatsoever shall be levied
in respect of such import or transport.
Article 15
(a) The Company shall have free of cost the unrestricted use and occupation
of and surface rights over all uncultivated lands of the Leased Area 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 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 con­
ditions 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 Sultan 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 Sultan but found no longer necessary for its operations
shall be returned by the Company to the Sultan free of cost.
Article 16
(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 connexion with its operations hereunder; further the Sultan 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-ofi.charge or taxes of any
kind whatever.
(b) The Company shall employ Subjects of the Sultan 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 frormneighbouring 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.

Article 17
Within those areas of the Leased Area which have been declared safe—or
may be so declared at any time during the currency of this agreement—for repre­
sentatives of-the Company to enter the Sultan shall give to the Company and its
employees-and 'property all the protection in his power , from robbery, assault,
wilful damage and destruction. The Company—within the areas declared safe—
may in consultation with the Sultan appoints.and itself pay trustworthy guards—
who shall at all times be subjects of the Sultan unless the Sultan permits otherwise—
to assist in protecting the employees and the property of the Company..
Article 18
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 Sultan 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 Sultan by his representative duly authorised by
him shall have the-jight to observe such measuring and to examine and test what-
™ aPPl»ances may be used for. such.measuring. Such representative shall comply
1 1I?eces.sary anc* us.ual safeguards for the prevention of fire and other accident,
and shall make all examinations and tests at such times and in such manner as will
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