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'File 82/1 II (F 53) A.P.O.C., and Oil Concession - Arab Coast' [‎159r] (321/576)

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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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and were coamunicated to 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. for
sutmission to the Sheikhs concerned. These draft heads of
Agreement, which were adapted from the usual Colonial Model,
vox^ so framed as to provide the nucleus of an Agreement,
f/hich would, in my opinion, have been in every way favourable
to the interests ot the Sheikhs, in that they were designed
not only to provide for the expeditious and systematic
development of the oil resources of their territories,but
also to produce for the Sheikhs very handsome royaltiese
5* However, before any agreement could be concluded
Major Holmes, avowedly, and probably actually, in ignorance
of the necesity for obtaining the prior pennission of His
Majesty 1 s Government,approached the Sheikhs of Kuwait and
Bahrein dir ect and succeeded in inducing them to grant or
undertake to grant to the Eastern and Greneral Syndicate^
which he represented, exclusive Concessions for the
exploitattion of oil and other minerals in their territories.
These concessions contain several^unsatisfactory
features (notably the provision whereby the Sheikhs would
receive a percentage of the shares of the exploitation
Company, in tne place of a definite royalty based upon output)
and they would in any case require to be substantially
modified before I should feel justified in advising the
Sheikhs to accept them. But quite apart fran this
consideration, I felt very strongly that the Sheikhs should
not be allowed to disregard their solemn undertaking with
impunity, nor that '♦unapproved" firms, by approaching them
direct, should be permitted to secure Concessions the terms
of which had not previously been submitted to His Majesty 1 ©
Government; particularly in view of the fact that the
Anglo

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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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