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'File 82/1 II (F 53) A.P.O.C., and Oil Concession - Arab Coast' [‎155r] (313/576)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (286 folios). It was created in 10 May 1923-9 Jan 1924. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
Date 20.th S.e..p,t.ember 192 .3.
Tlie Hon'ljle 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. in the Persian^
B U S H I R E.
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The Colonial Office wrote to our London Principals
as follows in their letter of the 4th of March:-
TT An undertaJcing has now been secured from His Highness
tne Sultan of Mascat that he will not give a concession for
petroleum in his territory without consulting the Political
Agent and without securing the approval of the G-overnment of
India. In these circumstances I am to reouest that His (Jrace
may now be informed of the terms which your Company are
prepared to offer for the grant of an exclusive prospecting
license over the Sultan's territories".
Our^London Principals replied on the 17th of May that
they were willing to accept a concession on the same terms as
those approved by the Colonial Office for Zoweit and Bahrain,
and ashed the Colonial Office to be good enough to instruct
you by cable to endeavour to get the Sultan to sign such
concession at once.
On the following month the Sultan proceeded to Dhofar,
and we understand that he is not likely to return to Mascat
before the middle of Uovember.
We understand that 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. has since
received through you instructions from His Majesty's G-overnment
to give his assistance to the D'Arcy Exploration Company in
Detaining a concession from the Sultan of Mascat on the same
lines as at Howeit and Bahrain, and that the Sultan of Mascat
has been informed in this sense.
We now^beg to inform you that we are ready to open
nu^otiations with the oultan ox Mascat at any time convenient
^ to yourself. V/e should be gla.d to receive your
further recommendations on this subject in due course.
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Your obedient servants,
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GMERAI HAUAGER.
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The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Department, the Colonial Office and the Secretary of State at 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. in London, 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, the Political Agents at Kuwait and Muscat, local rulers, Anglo Persian Oil Company (APOC) and Eastern and General Syndicate Limited representatives on the negotiations for oil concessions in Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd [Najd, Jubail, Saudi Arabia], Qatar, Muscat, Oman and Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .

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1 volume (286 folios)
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The documents in the volume are arranged in chronological order. There is an index at the beginning of the volume, on folio 3.

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The main foliation is in pencil, encircled, 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 on the first folio after the front cover, on number 1, then 2-63; 64A and 64B; 65-195; 196A and 196B and it carries on to the last folio, ending on 284. There is another foliation sequence, which is incomplete.

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