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File 1421/1908 Pt 3 'Persia: oil; negotiations between the Shaikh of Mohammerah and the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.' [293r] (151/338)
The record is made up of 1 item (168 folios). It was created in Apr 1909-Jul 1919. 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 Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Government.]
PERSIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[August 8.]
Section 1.
[28758]
No. 1.
Consul-General Cox to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received August 8 .)
(No. A)
g- r Bushire, July 16, 1910.
IN continuation of my despatch No. 3, dated the 20th June, 1910, I have the
honour to submit a copy, with translation, of the Sheikh of Mohammerah’s third
farman—in this case for the Fellahiyeh district—together with a copy of my covering
letter (No. 50, dated the 16th July, 1910), to His Majesty’s charge d’affaires,
Tehran.
I have, &c.
P. Z. COX, Lieutenant-Colonel, British Resident
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, and His Britannic
Majesty's Consul-General for Ears, Ac.
Enclosure 1 in No. 1.
Consul-General Cox to Mr. Marling.
(Nc 50. Confidential.) '
IN continuation of my despatch No. 42, dated the 26th June, 1910, I have the
honour to forward a further communication received from His Majesty’s acting consul
Mohammerah giving cover to vernacular copies, with translations of a third farman
and accompaniment possessed by the Sheikh of Mohammerah, by which the Fallahiyeh
district was bestowed upon him! It is couched in the same terms as the two firmans
already submitted with my despatch above quoted. . ,/r • ^ >
I am posting copies simultaneously to the Government of India and to His Majesty s
Foreign Office, London.
I n 3 iV 6 &c
P. Z. COX, Lieutenant-Colonel, British Resident
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, and His Britannic
Majesty's Consul-General for Ears, Ac.
Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
Acting Consul Wilson to Consul-General Cox.
(No. 685. Confidential.) Mohammerah, July 5, 1910.
WITH reference to the marginally noted correspondence,* I have the honour to
forward a copy of a third and last farman of Muzaffar-ud-Dm Shah, granting the distnc
of Fallahiyeh to the Sheikh of Mohammerah. i,.„o ;+
2 As we were not directly interested in this farman he dm not produce it along
with the others, but mentioned that he had it in his possession ; I asked to see it, in
order to take a copy, and he readily assented. ... , ,. •
3 Yesterday Haji Rais brought round the three original farmans and the covering
letters to the Sakr-ud-Daulah, with three copies of each, and asked me to certi y
the latter as true copies, as the Karguzar had already done. 1 Ins i did.
I have, &c. T j
A. T. WILSON, Lieutenant, LA.
* Consul-General Cox. No. 18 ? (Telegraphic), June 23 ; ditto, No. 42 , June 26 , 1910 .
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Part 3 consists of correspondence relating to an agreement between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and Shaikh Khazal-Bin-Jaber [Khaz‘al bin Jābir bin Mirdāw al-Ka‘bī] of Mohammerah [Khorramshahr]. The correspondence is mostly between the Government of India (Foreign Department), Foreign Office, and 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. . Included as enclosures are letters, telegrams, and memoranda from the following:
- Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary;
- British Minister to Persia, Tehran;
- representatives of Anglo-Persian Oil Company;
- Percy Zachariah Cox, 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 Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ;
- Shaikh Khazal of Mohammerah;
- Messrs Lloyd, Scott, and Co., agents of Anglo-Persian Oil Company in Mohammerah;
- Persian government officials;
- Arnold Talbot Wilson, Acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia.
Several matters are covered by the papers, including:
- the negotiations over a loan to Shaikh Khazal by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company for the use of land on Abadan Island for an oil refinery;
- the question of what is to be done with company buildings on the island when the concession period ends;
- the nature of Shaikh Khazal's rights to the land in question;
- the Persian Government's exceptions to some of the terms of the agreement;
- the question of guards for the refinery and who will pay for them.
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- File 1421/1908 Pt 3 'Persia: oil; negotiations between the Shaikh of Mohammerah and the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.'
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- 218r:242v, 243v:246v, 247v:255r, 256v:257r, 258v:264r, 265r:267v, 269v:271r, 272v:273v, 275v:278r, 280r:282r, 283v:284v, 285v:293r, 294r, 295v:315r, 316r:316v, 319v:325v, 328r:328v, 329v:331v, 332v, 333v:336v, 337v:338v, 339v:340v, 341v:347v, 349r:349v, 351v, 353v:358v, 362r:382v, 384v:386v
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