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Article 32
This agreement shall not be construed so as to impose on the Government
any obligations which conflict with any obligations imposed on it by any inter­
national convention or treaty nor shall this agreement or any article hereof be
construed so as to prejudice or derogate from any rights or privileges created by
any existing concession or agreement, other than as to oil and gas rights pertaining
to an undivided one-half interest in said Neutral Zone, by which the Government
is bound.
Article 33
The rights of the Company hereunder shall be exercised in a lawful manner,
subject to the laws of the country, existing agreements, other than with reference
to the oil and gas rights hereby transferred, to which the Government is a party,
and the rights, if any, of third parties to suitable indemnity and due respect, in
the exercise thereof, shall be accorded to the religion and customs of the people
and the sanctity of holy places, and no operations will knowingly and intentionally
be conducted by the Company within areas occupied by or devoted to the purposes
of mosques, sacred buildings, graveyards, or public offices. Express instructions
to this effect shall be given by the Company to its workmen.
The Company shall be responsible in the manner prescribed by law for any
loss or damage to third parties wrongfully caused by it, without any responsibility
on the part of the Government.

Article 34
(a) Neither the Company nor any of the employees in its service may interfere
with the policy of the Government or its affairs or its subjects.
(b) The Company shall not do or cause to be done any act which constitutes
an infringement of or is derogatory to the rights or privileges or sovereignty of
the Government, and if it be proved that any one of the Company’s employees has
committed any such offense, then the Government shall have the right to banish
him from the country besides any other punishment according to law.
(c) The employees of the Company shall be subject in all their acts to the
laws of the country.
Article 35
The Company under this concession is not permitted to have any pipe­
line outside the Neutral Zone.
The Government retains the right to grant to any Company operating outside
the Neutral Zone permission to lay pipelines for transporting oil across this area
to the coast; provided that any company or companies to whom such permission
is given shall not operate in any manner so as to interfere with the operations
of the Company in districts where the Company is working.

Article 36
(a) Nothing in this agreement shall in any way limit the right of the Govern­
ment within the Neutral Zone to grant to another party concessions and permits
in respect of substances other than petroleum and petroleum products and
by-products and natural gas and gas products and by-products, on condition that
this shall not involve any damage to the operations or interests of the Company.
(b) Nothing contained in this agreement shall be deemed to confer upon the
Company any title to or ownership of any land within the Neutral Zone or to
interfere with the respective rights of His Majesty and other surface owners to lease
the surface rights to lands owned.
(c) If at any time subsequent to the date of signature of this agreement the
Government should grant to another party any concession or permit as provided
in (a) of this paragraph, then the Government undertakes to see that such conces­
sion or permit shall include provisions requiring the holder thereof to abstain
from damaging or impeding the property, operations and interests of the Company
or interfering therewith.
(cf) The Company shall inform the Government of mineral deposits and ores
as gold, silver, copper, lead, potash, sulphur, precious stones, mineral waters,
salt or any other minerals or gases, other than those which are the subject of this
concession, which it may have discovered, and the Government has the absolute