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Article 26
The Company will erect or provide at every permanent installation maintained
by it:
(а) an office and living quarters for Government inspectors and representa­
tives to the Company;
(б) a building for use by the police;
(c) a building for use by the post office, Public Health Department, Govern­
ment telephone exchange and Government telegraphic facilities, which
building shall contain decent living quarters for Government workers
in such services;
(d) decent living quarters, in buildings, for Saudi Arabian personnel employed
by the Company in connection with such permanent installation;
(e) a simple mosque;
(/) common water pipes and baths, if practicable;
(g) telephone, light and water facilities for police, customs, post office, public
health, telegraph and telephone buildings;
(h) market facilities, where practicable;
(0 streets.
Article 27
The Company is not permitted to import firearms of any description, and
if it should do so, the Government shall have the right to confiscate such arms
and punish the offender according to its laws and regulations. The Company’s
officials may import sporting guns in accordance with the regulations governing
the same. The Company may not erect any fortifications or buildings designed
for war, and in the event of the occurrence of anything of this description, the
Government shall have the right to demolish such fortification and punish the
offender.
Article 28
All other things being equal, the Company shall afford priority with respect
to the purchase of the products and by-products of any refinery or refineries built
by it within the Neutral Zone to domestic purchasers or to purchasers within
friendly Arab nations upon the same terms upon which such products and
by-products are offered for sale generally and normally.
Article 29
The Company shall not knowingly sell, directly or indirectly, any product or
by-product obtained by it from said Neutral Zone to any foreign Power hostile
or unfriendly to the Government or to any subject or citizen of such Power.
Article 30
The Government may use, free of charge, any harbor, transportation, pipe­
line, communications and electrical facilities established by the Company here­
under, including transportation facilities for Government officials in the
performance of their duties within said Neutral Zone; provided that such use
shall not in any way interfere with the full use of such facilities by the Company
and its employees. The Government shall reimburse the Company for any and
all damage to such facilities caused by the Government’s use thereof. Subject to
the provisions of Article 49 hereof, in harbors constructed by the Company the
Government may collect fees and customs duties.

Article 31
In the event of a national emergency resulting from war, threat of war,
insurrection or critical shortage of petroleum products for local consumption, the
Government may requisition its needs in this respect from the Company, in so far
as the Company is able to meet such needs, and, if necessary, the use of the fields
during such emergency, and if the Company is unable to meet such needs from
|ts current production, the Government may call upon the Company to increase
hs production. In any event, the Government, according to law, shall reimburse
the Company for the fair value of any such products or property so requisitioned,
giving due effect to the provisions of Article 9 hereof. It is understood that this
Article applies to refined products and by-products as well as crude oil and
by-products.