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London, England, 1840-11-11 00:00:00

ARTICLE XVII.

The present Convention shall be ratified, and the
ratifications shall be exchanged at Muscat or Zanzibar
as soon as possible, and in any case within the space of
fifteen months from the date hereof.
Done on the island and at the town of Zanzibar, this
thirty-first day of May, in the year of Christ eightven
hundred and thirty-nine ; corresponding with the seven-
teenth of the month Rebea Owal, of the ul Hujira
twelve hundred and fifty-five.

ROBERT COGAN.
(L.S.)
(Signed in the Arabic original)
HASSAN BIN EBRIHIM.
ALLI BIN NASER.

(Signed)

Declaration made on the part of her Britannic Majesty,
on the exchange of the Ratifications of the preceding
Convention.

" The undersigned, Samuel Hennell, Esq., a Captain
in the military service of the East India Company,
and Resident in the Persian Gulf, appointed, on behalf
of her Majesty the Queea of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, to exchange her Majesty's
ratification of the Treaty of Commerce, concluded at
Zanzibar, on the 31st of May, 18.19, by Robert Cogan,
Esq., a Captain in the naval service of the East India
Company, on the part of her said Majesty, and by Has-
san Bin Ebrihina and Mahabat AIR Bin Nascr, on the
'part of his Highness the Sultan of Muscat, against the
ratification of the same treaty by his Highness the Sul-
tan of Muscat, is commanded by the Queen, in order
to avoid any possible misunderstanding as to the mein-
ing of the words contained in the ninth article of th•
said treaty, • any other charge of Government what-
ever,' to declare to Syed Mahomed Ibin Syed Shurruf,
appointed by his Highness the Sultan of Muscat to ex-
change his Highness's ratification, that the aforesaid
words arc by her Majesty taken and understood to
mean, • any other charge whatever made by the Go-
vernment, or by any local authority of the Government.
" Muscat, this 22d day of July, 1840.
(Signed) ' (L.S.) "S. HENNELL.

Counter-Declaration made on the part of his Highness
the Imaum of Muscat.
(Translation from the Arabic.)
" The undersigned, Syed Mahommcd Ibin Srd Shur-
ruf, appointed by his Highness the Sultan of Muscat to
exchange his Highness's ratification of the Treaty of
Commerce concluded at Zanzibar, on the 31st May
1839, by Robert Cogan, Esq., a Captain in the Naval
Service of the East India nnpauy, on the part of her
Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and by Hassan Bin Ebrihim, and
Mahabat Alli Bin Naser, on the part of his Highness
the Sultan of Muscat, against the ratification of the
same Treaty by her Majesty the Queen of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, having received
from Samuel Hennell, Esq., a Captain in the Military
Service of the East India Company, and Resident in
the Persian Gulf, appointed to act in this matter, on
behalf of her said Majesty, a declaration stating, that in
ord,rr to avoid any possible misunderstanding as to the
meaning of the words any other charge by Govern-
ment whatever,' contained in the ninth article of the
said Treaty, the aforesaid words are by her Majesty
taken and understood to mean any other charge what-
ever made by the Government, or by any !onl autbo-
rity of the Government,' the undersigned, Syed Ma-
hommed Ibin Syed Shurruf, being duly authorised by
his Highness the Sultan of Muscat, hereby accepts and
adopts the said Declaration, in the name and on th
behalf of his Highness the Sultan of Muscat.
" Muscat, this twenty-second day of July 1840.
(Signed, in the Arabic original)
(LS.) " SYED MAHOMED IBIN SYED
SHURRUF."

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