‘Muscat. Treaties entered into with His Highness the Imaum’

Title:

‘Muscat. Treaties entered into with His Highness the Imaum’

Date:

1822/1845

Description:

Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a letter from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 20 September 1845. The item contains correspondence from Captain Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul and the Honourable Company's Agent in the Dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muscat, to the Government of Bombay, with enclosed copies of treaties signed between Britain and His Highness Sultan Seid Seyeed Bin Sultan [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Imaum [Imam] of Muscat. The copies include:The commercial treaty concluded on 31 May 1839, ff 8-14Additional comments made in 1840 on the above treaty, ff 14-15Requisitions made by Captain Moresby of HMS Menai,with respect to the treaty concluded 10 September 1822, and the Imam’s responses, ff 16-20.Moresby’s full title is given as ‘Commissioner vested with the full powers by His Excellency Sir Robert T Farquhar, Baronet, Governor of the island of Mauritius’. Sultan Seid Seyeed Bin Sultan is also rendered as ‘Seid Said bin Sultan’.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5264, Draft 494/46’, ‘Collection N. 3 of N. 100’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’. The title page also features a list of reference numbers for each collection within the volume IOR/F/4/2142, written in pencil.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 4, and terminates at f 22, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival item

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Treaties
Slave trade
Trade agreements

Rights:

غير معروف

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100098003351.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098003351.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2142/102295
IOR/F/4/2142/102295

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