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'File 82/34 II (F 94) APOC Concession' [176r] (308/362)
The record is made up of 1 volume (180 folios). It was created in 28 Jan 1933-13 Jul 1939. It was written in English and French. 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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for in this way it should "be possible to avoid altogether
the difficult question of territorial waters.
Ij.« Now, in this country, minerals appear unquestiona"bly
to vest in the Grown inside the three mile limit. Outside
the three mile limit, i.e. under what His Majesty's
Government consider to be the high seas, they appear to
vest in the Grown if and when they are effectively occupied
by a mining company. It is, moreover, the generally
recognised view of international law, with regard to the
bed of the open sea and the subsoil beneath it, that the
sea-bed and the subsoil is res nullius , but that it is
capable of acquisition by effective occupation in the same
manner as any unoccupied territory above the level of the
sea. The position, therefore, as regards the sea-bed off
the Iranian coast is that up to the three mile line we
recognise the sea-bed as being Iranian. Beyond that line
the Iranian Government regard the sea-bed as Iranian up to
the six mile line, and may possibly, now or at some future
date, claim that "national interests" give them the right
of control to mineral deposits up to the twelve mile line.
In the view of His Majesty's Government, however, the
subsoil outside the three mile line is res nullius and can
be acquired only by effective occupation.
5. Our advice, therefore, to the Company is as follows:
(i) The Gompany should obviously not lay claim to
more sea-bed than they really think they want,
because of the danger of wasting their precious
100,000 square miles on territory to which they
might not subsequently be able to establish a title.
(ii) The Company should be virtually safe vis-a-vis
of Iran in including areas up to the three mile line,
and probably up to the six mile line.
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The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the Foreign Office, His Majesty's Minister at Teheran, His Majesty's Consul at Geneva (in French), 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 and Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives in regard to the settling of the dispute between Britain and Persia at the League of Nations, due to the cancellation of the 1901 D'Arcy Concession. Subjects also include the negotiations for a new concession with APOC and the definition of the territorial waters for the new concession area. The volume also includes newspaper cuttings on the subject, from The Times .
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (180 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order. There are notes at the end of the volume, (folios 194-198). The file notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file; they give a brief description of the correspondence with reference numbers in red crayon, which refer back to that correspondence in the volume.
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The foliation is written in pencil, 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 with the first item of correspondence, on number 1, 2-17; then 18 and 18A; 19-21; 22 and 22A; 23-133; 134 and 134A and carries on until 203, which is the last number given, on the inside of the back cover of the volume. Some of the folios have been paginated in error, which means that the following numbers are missing from the foliation sequence: f. 48; f. 50; f. 52; f. 54; f. 56; f. 58; f. 60; f. 62; f. 64; f. 72; f. 74; f. 76; f. 80; f. 82; f. 101; ff. 103-105; f. 107; f. 109; f. 111; f. 113; f. 115; f. 117; f. 119; f. 121; f. 123; f. 125; f. 132; f. 138; f. 144.
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- Title
- 'File 82/34 II (F 94) APOC Concession'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iv-v, 1r:7v, 15r:18v, 18ar:18av, 19r:47v, 49r:49v, 51r:51v, 53r:53v, 55r:55v, 57r:57v, 59r:59v, 61r:61v, 63r:63v, 65r:71v, 73r:73v, 75r:75v, 77r:77v, 79r:79v, 81r:81v, 83r:100v, 102r:102v, 106r:106v, 108r:108v, 110r:110v, 112r:112v, 114r:114v, 116r:116v, 118r:118v, 120r:120v, 122r:122v, 124r:124v, 126r:131v, 133r:134v, 134ar:134av, 136r:137v, 139r:143v, 145r:146v, 151r:181v, 185r:202v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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