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File 2902/1916 ‘Treaties and Engagements between the British Government and the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’ [‎54r] (118/448)

The record is made up of 1 volume (222 folios). It was created in 1916-1928. It was written in English, Arabic and Persian. 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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APPENDIX I.
AGREEMENT cntered intobelween the 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. -i-Arfa, AmirNuyan, Shaikh
Jvhazal K.han ibn Haji Jahir Khan, heirs and successors, and his tribesmen on
the one part, hereinaiter called “the Shaikh,” and Messrs. Anglo-Persian ’oil
Company, .Limited, of London, on the other part, hereinafter called “ the Com
pany,” m respect of lands required by the said Company in the territories of the
former, for the purposes of their business, under the exclusive privileges of the
Concession granted to Mr. W. K. D’Arcy by His Majesty the Shah of Persia
on the 28th May 1901.
Whereby it is agreed that—
1. The Shaikh undertakes to hire to the said Company an area free of date
trees of 650 (six hundred and fifty) jaribs of 1,669 square yards per jarib, on
Abadan Island, situated between the village of JBaraim on the north-west and
Buwardeh on the south-east, having a frontage of about 2,000 yards on the
Shatt-al-Arab, and also a strip of land not less than thirty yards in breadth for
a right of way connecting the land abovementioned with the Bahmanshir
river ; but the public rights of way must remain.
2. Should the said Company find the ground selected as above, after further
examination, not suitable for their requirements, they should have the right to
select other sites of the same area and same description. Should the Company
require more land, free of date trees, adjacent to the lands leased to them, the
Shaikh undertakes, in case the Company asks for such land within a space of
two years from the date of this agreement, to grant them land not exceeding
one hundred jaribs in area, at the same moderate rate. If the said Company
ask for more land after two years from the date of this agreement, they
shall pay rental at the fair current rate of the time for similar land in those
localities.
3. The Shaikh further undertakes to grant free of charge to the Company
a strip of land for the laying of such pipe-lines as may be necessary, above or
below ground, situated in his lands or in those lands for the time being under
his jurisdiction, or leased or purchased by him from others, with access
thereto; and also to grant free, in connection with the said pipe-line, such un
cultivated land as may be needed by them for telegraph or telephone stations
or pumping stations, or quarters for line inspectors and staffs, having an area
of three jaribs for each pumping station, and one half jaribs for each of the
other stations.
It is to be understood that at the expiration of the Concession, or of any
extension or renewal thereof, the Company shall relinquish every pumping or
other station that may be erected on these lands, and shall not be entitled to
demand any refund of expenses in this connection.
It is agreed that in places where the pipe-line is exposed, guards shall be
appointed. Further, that the Shaikh will exert himself to the utmost to
prevent the wilful setting fire to the oil in the pipe. In the event of such a
contingency occurring he will endeavour to the utmost of his power to trace
and punish the offenders and, if they possess anything, to recover ^ compensa
tion, but the Shaikh does not accept personally any pecuniary liability lor
loss which may accrue to the Company from this cause, and will not pay
compensation.
4. The Shaikh further undertakes to hire to the Company an area or
areas, aggregating ten jaribs at Ahwaz and Nasiri, having frontage on the
eastern bank (edge) of the River Karun, for the storage of material, and build
ing of storehouses, and such other buildings as are needed for the Company s
business, at a rate of one pound sterling per jarib per annum, i.e., that the
yearly amount of the rent thereof will be ten pounds sterling.

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The volume consists mainly of six bound compilations of treaties and undertakings, together with related correspondence and other supplementary material, made between the British Government and the British Protectorates of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , 1820-1919. These treaty compilations were published by the Government of India in 1919 and comprise: the Trucial Treaties to January 1906, Treaties with Rulers of Kuwait from 1841 to 1913, Treaties with the Sultan of Oman and Muscat from 1845 to 1914, Undertakings with the Trucial Chiefs of Oman from 1911 to 1912, Treaties with the Shaikh of Mohammerah from 1899 to 1919 and Treaties with the Rulers of Bahrain from 1820 to 1914. In addition, there is a separate Foreign Office ‘Memorandum on British Commitments (During the War) to the Gulf Chiefs’ made in 1916, which contains at Appendix A, the English text of the treaty made with the Ruler of Qatar in 1916. The treaty compilations are published in English and Arabic, except for the treaties with the Shaikh of Mohammerah, which are published in English and Persian.

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1 volume (222 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 2902 (Treaties and Engagements between the British Government and the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ) consists of one volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 216; these numbers are written in pencil, 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 foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the two leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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