'File 10/1 XII Bahrain Oil Concession' [‎211r] (438/570)

Content

The volume contains minutes of meetings at Office of the Secretary of State for India in London, correspondence and telegrams 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 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 Bushire, the Financial Adviser to the Government in Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, and representatives of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited on the Mining Lease and on a survey of Bahrain, for the purpose of identifying the lands granted to the Company by the Shaikh, Hamad Bin Issa Al-Khalifah.

The volume includes:

• copy of the lease including map of Bahrain (ff. 45-53);
• description of lands owned by the Sheihk and 'Survey of the municipal boundaries of Manama and Muharraq' (ff. 33-39);
• abstracts of accounts of oil measured during the first half on 1935 and 'Statement on Royalty due for the first half of 1935' (ff. 168-169);
• documents on a refinery to be built in Bahrain, including letters, in English and Arabic, between 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. and the Sheikh.

There are two maps:

• 'Proposed reserve water well' (f. 71);
• 'Oil Loading Terminal at Bahrain Island, Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Mooring Layout' (f. 206).

There is an index at the end of the volume (folios 261-272).

Extent and format

1 volume (283 folios)

Arrangement

The documents in the volume are arranged in chronological order. There is an index at the end of the volume (ff. 261-272). The index is arranged chronologically and refers to documents within the volume; it gives brief description of the correspondence with a reference number, which refers back to that correspondence in the volume.

Physical characteristics

The foliation sequence goes from the first to the last page of writing (5th folio from the back of the volume), from 1-52; then 53A, 53B; 54-272. Numbering is in pencil, encircled and can be found in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. .

Written in

English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script

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