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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD JULY, 1892.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 327. The following Circular Despatch, with its enclosure, is published.

By Cominand,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd July, 1892.

CIRCULAR (2)

G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.

DOWNING STREET,

679

31st May, 1892.

SIR, I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Government, a copy of a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation between Great Britain and Muskat, signed at Muskat on the 19th of March, 1891, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Muskat on the 20th of February last.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient humble Servant,

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

KNUTSFORD.

TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND MUSKAT.

Signed at Muskat, March 19, 1891.

Ratifications exchanged at Muskat, February 20, 1892.

HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and His Highness the Seyyid Feysal-bin-Turki-bin-Saeed, Sultan of Muskat and Oman, being desirous to confirm and strengthen the friendly relations which now subsist between the two countries, and to promote and extend their commercial relations, have named as their Plenipotentiaries to conclude a Treaty for this purpose, that is to say:-

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Companion of the Star of India, Her Britannic Majesty's Political Resident in the Persian Gulf;

And His Highness the Sultan of Muskat, in person;

Who have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles :---

ARTICLE I.

The Treaty concluded between the British Government and Sultan Seyyid Saeed-bin-Sultan of Muskat and Oman on the 31st May, 1839 (17 Rabia 1st, 1255), is hereby cancelled and declared void, and the present Treaty, when ratified, shall be substituted for it.

ARTICLE II.

Subjects of Her Britannic Majesty shall, for the purposes of this Treaty, include subjects of native States in India in alliance with Her Majesty. Such subjects shall enjoy, immediately and uncondi- tionally, throughout the dominions of His Highness the Sultan of Muskat, with respect to commerce, shipping, and the exercise of trade, as in every other respect, all the rights, privileges, immunities, advantages, and protection of whatsoever nature, which are, or hereafter may be, enjoyed by, or accorded to, the subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation.

They shall more especially not be liable to other or more onerous duties, imposts, restrictions, or obligations of whatever description, than those to which subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation now are, or hereafter may be, subjected.