'Sharjah Oil Concession and connected documents'
IOR/L/PS/18/B467
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The record is made up of 1 file (11 folios). It was created in 17 Sep 1937-23 May 1938. It was written in English. 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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This file opens with a letter from Petroleum Development ( Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ) Limited to Sultan bin Saqr al Qassim [Shaikh Sultān bin Saqr Āl Qasimī], Ruler of Sharjah, dated 12 February 1946, requesting an amendment to the previous oil concession agreement which was drawn up between the two parties in September 1937. The request is for an extension of the previously agreed period of nine years which had been allocated for the company to undertake a geological examination of the agreed area prior to drilling. The next letter in the file is a reply from the Sultan who agrees to the extension owing to the disruption caused by the Second World War. The documents following this include copies of the original oil concession agreements (both the commercial agreement between the Sultan and the petroleum company and the political agreement between the company and the British Government), and copies of related correspondence between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Bahrain, the Shaikh of Sharjah, the 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. and Petroleum Concessions Limited, relating to the original agreements.
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- 1 file (11 folios)
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The documents in the file are arranged [loosely] in chronological order.
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The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 13; 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.
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- English in Latin script
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- 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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- IOR/L/PS/18/B467
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- 17 Sep 1937-23 May 1938 (CE, Gregorian)
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- IOR/L/PS/18/B467
- Title
- 'Sharjah Oil Concession and connected documents'
- Pages
- 2r:2v
- Author
- Packer, Ernest Vincent
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- The copyright status is unknown. Please contact copyright@bl.uk with any information you have regarding this item.
- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/18/B467
- Title
- 'Sharjah Oil Concession and connected documents'
- Pages
- 3r:3v, 11v, 12r
- Author
- Al Qasimi, Shaikh Sultan II bin Saqr
- Usage terms
- Public Domain
- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/18/B467
- Title
- 'Sharjah Oil Concession and connected documents'
- Pages
- 4r:11r
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- Unknown
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- The copyright status is unknown. Please contact copyright@bl.uk with any information you have regarding this item.
- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/18/B467
- Title
- 'Sharjah Oil Concession and connected documents'
- Pages
- 12v
- Author
- Petroleum Concessions Limited
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- IOR/L/PS/18/B467
- Title
- 'Sharjah Oil Concession and connected documents'
- Pages
- front, front-i, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence