"ضمانات، وتعهدات، واتفاقيات، وغيرها. عُقدت بين بعض زعماء وخانات [حكام] جنوب بلاد فارس مع الحكومة البريطانية وبعض شركات التجارة البريطانية" [‎٨‎٧] (١٠٤/٩٧)

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Company's boundaries and should they or any of their flocks meet with an accident
(which God forbid), the Company shall not be responsible.
Artide 5. —All houses, shops, etc., which the Company may build on land sold
as above or temporarily occupied shall be free of all local taxes. The Ilkhani or
his representatiyes shall have no right to collect taxes from any of the people
employed by the Company or temporarily permitted to settle on the land in their
possession.
Article 6.—The Ilkhani undertakes to give all the protection in his power to
the Company and to their staff and labourers in any part of his territory from theft,
highway robbery, assault, etc.
Similarly the Ilkhani undertakes to protect all the property of the Company
and of their employes which may be exposed to wilful damage or to possible loss or
theft.
Article 7.—Por this purpose (as long as the Persian Government have not
detailed regular forces in accordance with the Company's concession) it is further
agreed that the Company, in consultation with the Ilkhani and with the knowledge
of the Persian Government, shall appoint permanent trustworthy guards at
whatever place they may wish to work under a reliable Persian of good family
whose pay and that of the guards shall be provided and fixed by the Company in
consultation with the Ilkhani and who shall remain there summer and winter.
If, in spite of the efforts of the said guards, theft shall occur, the Ilkhani under
takes to recover the property stolen and to compensate the Company foi any
damage sustained in his territory. In the event of the non-recovery of the stolen
property, the v^alue thereof shall be deducted by the Company from the sums due to
the Ilkhani.
The number of guards at any place where the Company may operate shall be
fixed by the Company in consultation with the Ilkhani and with the knowledge of
the Persian Government.
It shall be the duty of the above-mentioned head of the guards to keep order
in the areas in his charge to such extent as the Company may order him : he shall
have no right to interfere in any disputes among the Company s servants unless
asked by the Company to do so.
In case of misconduct, the said guards are subject to dismissal or fine by the
Company. In the event of any heavier punishment being needed, the offender shall
be handed over to the representative of the Ilkhani and the Ilkhani undertakes that
punishment shall be inflicted and to use his utmost endeavour to uphold the
authority of the Company's employees, thereby avoiding unnecessary trouble to both
parties of this contract.
Article 8—Until oil is exported by the pipe-line from the said territories, the
Company shall pay to the Ilkhani the sum of one thousand English pounds per
annum payable half yearly from the 21st March in arrears.
Article 9 —Should the Company succeed in finding oil in paying quantities in
the said territories and as soon as oil is exported by the pipe-line, the Company
aeree to pav to the Ilkhani a further sum of one thousand English pounds annually,
making a total sum of two thousand English pounds annually. ^
Whenever the Company decide to issue shares to the Ilkhani in any new company
or companies which may be formed for the extraction of oil m the said territories
(including those covered by the agreement of the Company with the Kashkuli
Khans), the said Ilkhani shall be granted three shares out of every hundreu shares
issued by such company or companies. These shares will be issued m the name of
the Ilkhani and the dividends that may thereafter be declared annually by the said
company or companies shall be paid annually to the Ilkham. ^
The above shares shall be paid by the Company to the Ilkham in return for
the protection and assistance he has undertaken to provide for the Company 8 staff
and W on tle condition that he has in fact provided it, but it is hereby agreed
that the said amount of two thousand English pounds shall cease to be paid after
the first declaration of a dividend on the shares.
The Ilkhani hereby undertakes not to sell, mortgage, transfer or otherwise
dispose of such shares, if issued, and in order that such shares may permanently