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'File 82/34 II (F 94) APOC Concession' [151r] (258/362)
The record is made up of 1 volume (180 folios). It was created in 28 Jan 1933-13 Jul 1939. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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p, S.6994/1938.
COPY. Anglo-1 rani a n Oil Goiapany 7 s
(S 5262/201/3k) Concession Area.
Mr. IvIylleSp of the Anglo-1 rani an Oil Company, called on
Mr. Bagg ^llay this afternoon? accompanied by Dr. Lees, the
Company's Chief G-eologist and Mr. ¥. E. Browne, the Company's
Surveyor, in order to ask advice about the best vmy of
defining the limits of the area or areas totalling 100,000
square miles of Persian territory which the Company were now
obliged, before the 31st December 1938 and under the terms of
the 1933 Concession Agreement, to choose as those in which
they wished to operate their concession for the future.
2. Mr. Mylies and his colleagues explained that up to
certain depths of water modern boring machinery made it possible
to tap oil fields lying under the sea and that there were parts
of the sea in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
which the Company wished to
include in the area of their potential operations. They
understood that His Majesty's Government held that three miles
was the limit of territorial waters, whereas the Persian
Government claimed a 'oelt of twleve miles. Along most of the
Persian coast the width of sea which the Company wished to
include in their concession was within the three mile limit.
At the northern end of the Gulf, however, there were parts of
"the sea in the twelve mile belt which they wished to include.
3. Furthermore the chosen areas had to be precisely
demarcated in order that the Persian Government might be able
"to check the measurements for themselves and ma-ie sure that
did not exceed 100,000 square miles in all. This applied
"to the demarcation of such sections of the boundaries as
followed/
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The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the Foreign Office, His Majesty's Minister at Teheran, His Majesty's Consul at Geneva (in French), the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. at Bushire and Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives in regard to the settling of the dispute between Britain and Persia at the League of Nations, due to the cancellation of the 1901 D'Arcy Concession. Subjects also include the negotiations for a new concession with APOC and the definition of the territorial waters for the new concession area. The volume also includes newspaper cuttings on the subject, from The Times .
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (180 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order. There are notes at the end of the volume, (folios 194-198). The file notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file; they give a brief description of the correspondence with reference numbers in red crayon, which refer back to that correspondence in the volume.
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The foliation is written in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The numbering begins with the first item of correspondence, on number 1, 2-17; then 18 and 18A; 19-21; 22 and 22A; 23-133; 134 and 134A and carries on until 203, which is the last number given, on the inside of the back cover of the volume. Some of the folios have been paginated in error, which means that the following numbers are missing from the foliation sequence: f. 48; f. 50; f. 52; f. 54; f. 56; f. 58; f. 60; f. 62; f. 64; f. 72; f. 74; f. 76; f. 80; f. 82; f. 101; ff. 103-105; f. 107; f. 109; f. 111; f. 113; f. 115; f. 117; f. 119; f. 121; f. 123; f. 125; f. 132; f. 138; f. 144.
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- Title
- 'File 82/34 II (F 94) APOC Concession'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iv-v, 1r:7v, 15r:18v, 18ar:18av, 19r:47v, 49r:49v, 51r:51v, 53r:53v, 55r:55v, 57r:57v, 59r:59v, 61r:61v, 63r:63v, 65r:71v, 73r:73v, 75r:75v, 77r:77v, 79r:79v, 81r:81v, 83r:100v, 102r:102v, 106r:106v, 108r:108v, 110r:110v, 112r:112v, 114r:114v, 116r:116v, 118r:118v, 120r:120v, 122r:122v, 124r:124v, 126r:131v, 133r:134v, 134ar:134av, 136r:137v, 139r:143v, 145r:146v, 151r:181v, 185r:202v, back-i
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