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'File 0629 Correspondence regarding the land beneath the sea outside territorial waters' [28r] (55/94)
The record is made up of 1 file (45 folios). It was created in 8 Jun 1949-3 Jul 1950. 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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as long as the Company's activities were limited to survey
work, but Henderson agrees that the only hope of improved
relations at present lies in our insisting that all complaints
of a major nature by either the Ruler or the Company, be made
through the Political Officer, Trmcial Coast. Ty>is is a
nuisance, in that the
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
is some 80 miles from the camps
and some 100 miles from Abu Dhabi town, but in the interests
of stopping trivial complaints and petty interference on the
one hand, and of providing some sort of disinterested check
on living conditions on the other, it is a procedure which X
am bound to recommend.
7. I propose, subject to your approval, to inform the
Ruler firstly that the P.C.L.concession was made with H.M.G’s
approval, and that H.M.G. is interested in ensuring that its
terms are carried out by both sides. (The Shaikh has been
trying tp propagate the story that because the Agreement
bears no signature by H.xM.G^ representative, it is purely a
private document as between himself and P.C.L.). Secondly,
I propose to tell him that all complaints or requests
concerning the Company of anything but a routine nature should
be made through the P.O.T.C. and that under no circumstances
should his guards or relatives interfere with the operations
in the various camps. I should be grateful for your
instructions.
J.A.F.Gethin, Esquire,
H.B.M's
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.
,
BAHRAIN.
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The file contains correspondence regarding the issue of oil concession grants for land beneath the sea beyond the three mile territorial limit. The correspondence is principally between the British Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Sharjah, the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Bahrain, and the ruling shaikhs of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. [United Arab Emirates].
The matters covered by the file include:
- British instructions to the Trucial shaikhs to make claims to the subsoil of the seabed beyond the three mile limit;
- the case of arbitration between Petroleum Concessions Limited and individual shaikhs over whether this potential extension of territory was included in the original 1939 concessions.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (45 folios)
- Arrangement
The file is arranged chronologically.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 47; 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. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-44; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/4/9
- Title
- 'File 0629 Correspondence regarding the land beneath the sea outside territorial waters'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:10v, 14r:14v, 21r:21v, 23r:32v, 34r:36v, 38r:38v, 40r:40v, 42r:42v, 44r:45v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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