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'Assurances, Undertakings and Agreements, Etc., Made by Certain Chiefs and Khans of Southern Persia with the British Government and Certain British Trading Companies' [33] (43/104)
The record is made up of 1 volume (52 folios). It was created in 1926. It was written in English, Persian 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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33
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF D'AECY OIL CONCESSION.
The following has by these presents been agreed on and arranged, viz. *—
Article 1. -The Government of His Imperial Majesty the Shah grants to the
Concessionnaire by these presents a special and exclusive privilege to search
for, obtain, exploit, develop, render suitable for trade, carry away and sell natural gas,
petroleum, asphalte and ozokerite throusrhout the whole extent of the Persian
Empire for a term of 60 years as from the date of these presents.
Article -This privilege shall comprise the exclusive right of laying the pipe
lines necessary from the deposits where they may be found one or several of the
said products up to the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
as also the necessary distributing branches.
It shall also comprise the right of constructing and maintaining all and any
wells, reservoirs, stations and pump services, accumulation services and distribution
services, workshops and other works of arrangement that may be necessary.
Article 3. —The Imperial Persian Government grants gratuitously to the
Concessionnaire all uncultivated lands belonging to the State which the Con-
cessionnaire's engineers may deem necessary for the construction of the whole or
any part of the above-mentioned works. As for cultivated lands belonging to the
State, the Concessionnaire must purchase them at the fair and current price of
the province.
The Government also grants to the Concessionnaire the right of acquiring all
and any other lands or building necessary for the said purpose with the consent
of the proprietors on such conditions as may be arranged between him and them
without their being allowed to make demands of a nature to surcharge the prices
ordinarily current for lands situated in their respective localities. Holy places
with all their dependencies within a radius of 200 Persian archives are formally
excluded.
Article 4. —As three petroleum mines situate at Schouster Kassre-Chirine in
the province of Kermanshah and Daleki near Bouchir are at present let to private
persons and produce an annual revenue of two thousand
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
for the benefit of
the Government it has been agreed that the three aforesaid mines shall be com -
prised in the Deed of Concession in conformity with Article 1 on condition
that over and above the 16 per »cent. mentioned in Article 10 the Con
cessionnaire shall pay every year the fixed sum of 2,000 (two thousand)
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
to
the Imperial Government.
Article 5. —The course of the pipe-lines shall be fixed by the Concessionnaire
and his engineers.
Article 6. —Notwithstanding what is above set forth the privilege granted by
the^e presents shall not extend to the Provinces of Azerbaijan, Gilan,
Mazandaran, Astrabad and Khorassan but on the express condition that the Persian
Imperial Government shall not grant to any other person the right of constructing
a pipe-line to the southern rivers or on the south coast of Persia.
Article 7. —All lands granted by these presents to the Concessionnaire or that
may be acquired by him in the manner provided for in Articles 3 and 4 of these
presents as also all products exported shall be free of all imposts and taxes during
the term of the present concession. All material and apparatuses necessary for the
exploration working and development of the deposit and for the construction and
development of the pipe-lines shall enter Persia free of all taxes and Custom House
duties.
Article 8. —The Concessionnaire shall immediately send out to Persia and at his
own cost one or several experts with a view to their exploring the region in which
there exist as he believes the said products and in the event of the report of the
expert being in the opinion of the Concessionnaire of a satisfactory nature the
latter shall immediately send to Persia and at his own cost all the technical staff
necessary with the working plant and machinery required for boring and sinking
wells and ascertaining the value of the property.
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This volume is a printed report, published by the Government of India Press (Calcutta: 1926), constituting a collection of assurances, undertakings and agreements made by chiefs and Khans of Southern Persia with the British Government and trading companies between 1898 and 1922. The volume is marked 'Confidential' on the front cover and contains a table of contents (folios 4-5). The agreements, some appearing in both Persian and English, are ordered by serial number and they include:
- No. 1: Undertaking Given by Certain Notables of Luristan in regard to the Construction of Cart Road through Part of their Territory (8 June 1911);
- No. 2: Correspondence regarding Right of Option Granted to Persian Railway Syndicate by Persian Government for Construction of Certain Railway Lines (9 February 1913, 4 March 1913, and 10 January 1920);
- No. 3: Memorandum Regarding Concessions for Roads and Railways in South-West Persia up to 1917 (1917);
- No. 4: Persian Transport Company's Concession for the Construction of a Commercial Road Between Ahwaz and Tehran and the Establishment of a Transport Service thereon (5 August 1890);
- No. 5: Compensation for Loss of Pilotage Fees, Amounting to Ts. 2000 per annum to be paid to Haidar Khan, Hayat Daudi [Ḥaydar Khān Ḥayāt Dāwūdī], C I E (12 February 1920 and 26 February 1920);
- No. 6: Agreement Concluded between Messrs. Lynch Bros. and certain Bakhtiari Chiefs for the Construction and Maintenace of a Road from Ahwaz to Isfahan and Shushter [Shushtār] to Isfahan (3 March 1898);
- No. 7: D'Arcy Oil Concession (28 May 1901);
- No. 7(a): Translation of the D'Arcy Oil Concession (28 May 1901);
- No. 8: Agreement Between D'Arcy Syndicate and the Bakhtiari (15 November 1905);
- No. 8(a): Refusal of Persian Government to Recognize Agreement between the D'Arcy Syndicate and the Bakhriaris (12 January 1906);
- No. 8(b): Notes on the Bakhtiari Agreement of November 15 1905 (20 October 1906);
- No. 9: Agreement between Mr W[illiam] K[nox] D'Arcy and the Kili Sayyeds (1 October 1906);
- No. 10: Agreement between the Oil Company and H. E. Shahab-Es-Sultaneh, Ilbegi [Shihāb al-Sulṭānah Īlbagī] of the Bakhtiar (25 March 1907);
- No. 11: Land Agreement between the Oil Company and the Bakhtiari Khans (15 May 1911);
- No. 11(a): Power-of-Attorney Appointing Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Muhtesham [ Sardār Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Muḥtasham] and Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Bahadur [ Sardār Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Bahādur] as Agents of the Bakhtiari Khans (1910);
- No. 11(b): The Bakhtiari Khans' Orders to their Tribesmen Regarding the Oil Company's Employees (May 1911);
- No. 11(c): Undertaking made by the Bakhtiari Khans regarding the Kili Sayyeds (May 1911);
- No. 12: Agreement for Protection of Pipe-Line (28 April 1911);
- No. 13: Supplementary Agreement between Mr W K D'Arcy and the Kili Sayyeds (10 February 1911);
- No. 14: Agreement between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and Parwiz Khan, Gunduzlu [Parvīz Khān Gunduzlū] (20 February 1911);
- No. 15: Agreement between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the Wali of Pusht-i-Kuh (19 September 1919);
- No. 16: Land Aquisition Agreement between Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the Bakhiairi Khans (20 April 1921);
- No. 17: Agreement between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and Haidar Khan, C I E, of Hayat Daud (6 October 1921, 22 October 1921, and 13 November 1921);
- No. 18: Agreement between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the Kashkuli [Kashkūlī] Khans (14 October 1921);
- No. 19: Agreement between Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the Ilkhani The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran. of the Qashgais (20 May 1922).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (52 folios)
- Arrangement
The assurances, agreements and undertakings compiled in this volume are arranged according to serial number from 1 to 18. These appear roughly in chronological order.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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