General Treaty Between Her Majesty and the Sultan of Morocco
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General Treaty Between Her Majesty and the Sultan of Morocco
Signed, in the English and Arabic Languages, at Tangier, December 9, 1856.
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- HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Majesty the Sultan of Morocco and Fez, being desirous to maintain and strengthen the relations of friendship which have long subsisted between their respective dominions and subjects, have resolved to proceed to a revision and improvement of the Treaties subsisting between the respective countries, and have for that purpose named as their plenipotentiaries, that is to say:
- Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, John Hay Drummond Hay, Esquire, Her Chargé d’Affaires and Consul-General at the Court of His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco and Fez;
- And His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco and Fez, Seed Mohamed Khateeb, His Commissioner for Foreign Affairs;
- Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles:
- ARTICLE I.
- There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, her heirs and successors, and His Sherifian Majesty the Sultan of Morocco and Fez, and between their respective dominions and subjects.
- ARTICLE XIII.
- All British subjects, whether Mahometans, Jews, or Christians, shall alike enjoy all the rights and privileges granted by the present Treaty and the Convention of Commerce and Navigation which has also been concluded this day, or which shall at any time be granted to the most favoured nation.
- ARTICLE XVI.
- No British subject professing the Mahometan faith, or who may have professed the Mahometan religion, shall be considered as having in any manner lost, or as being by reason thereof in any degree less entitled to, the rights and privileges, or the full protection, enjoyed by British subjects who are Christians; but all British subjects, whatever their religion may be, shall enjoy all the rights and privileges secured by the present Treaty to British subjects, without any distinction or difference.
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