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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [228r] (460/616)
The record is made up of 1 volume (304 folios). It was created in 1907-1911. 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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POLITICAL
RESIDENCY
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
FOR 1909.
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quieted his fears, and since April 1909 nothing more has been heard of the
option.
When visiting Ahwaz, Sir W. Willcocks expressed the opinion that the
Karkha irrigation Scheme. Karkha River offered greater facilities
..... tor irrigation than the Karun and re
commended investigation m this direction. Lieutenant Wilson afterwards
visited the Karkha and made a preliminary report, strongly recommending
that the scheme, which seemed easy and remunerative, should receive careful
examination at the hands of experts.
Lieutenant Wilson subsequently visited the Karkha with Mr. J, W.
Storrs, Public Works Department, during August and September, and with
the assistance of two 'surveyors the latter prepared detailed maps and plans
with levels of the environs of Sinn-ul-'Abbas, Kut Nahr Hashim, and of
the lands that would be watered by the proposed canal.
On 1st Januarj 1910, Sir W. Willcocks visited the Karkha with Mr.
J. W. Storrs and Lieutenant Wilson and selected Sinn-ul-'Abbas as the best
situation for a dam. The site selected was a spur of rock 800' long and 100'
broad running right across the river. The estimated cost of the dam and the
main canal to Kut Nahr Hashim (from which point irrigation would begin)
was put at £75,000, and the area irrigated thereby 100,000 acres winter and
summer. Sir William Willcocks thought that the Shaikh should make 20
per cent, on the capital outlay.
The inception at the commencement of the year of this Company, with
Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Ld. a Capital of £2,000 000 Under a
powerful directorate and with the close
support of the Burma Oil Company, is undoubtedly the most important and
far-reaching event affecting British interests that has happened in Arabistan
since the opening of the Karun in 1888. The Company took over Mr. W. K.
D'Arcy's concession, and all the assets and liabilities of the Concession
Syndicate, Limited, the Company which had bored for oil in the Bakhtiari
country and found it, in 1908. Its effect on the Khans is dealt with in the
report otf the Ahwaz Consulate.
Shortly after the announcement of the formation of the Company in
London, the Company's representative approached the Shaikh with a view
to leasing land on Abadan Island, for a refinery site, and arranging for
a pipe line from the oil fields to this spot through the Shaikh's territories,
and other facilities. A rough agreement was come to verbally, but at a
price (£2,000) which was considered unsatisfactory by the Directors. 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.
was, therefore, asked to commence negotiations with
the Shaikh with a view to obtaining the land and other facilities asked for
at a cheaper rate. Simultaneously, the Company decided to entrust the
management of their affairs in Arabistan to agents, as in Burma and else
where in the case o'f the Burma Oil Company, and Mr. J. B. Lloyd, a partner
in the firm of Shaw, Wallace & Co., arrived in June to commence
business as managing agents and general merchants under the name of Lloyd,
Scott & Co. With him was Mr. C- A. Walpole, 'formerly of the
Imperial Bank of Persia, who took charge of the business from July to
December in the absence of Mr. J. B. Lloyd in England. Mr. E. B. Soane,
also formerly of the Imperial Bank of Persia, was appointed to the staff of
Messrs. Lloyd, Scott & Co. in December.
Major Cox interviewed the Shaikh on the subject of land acquisition in
May and obtained *from him a declaration that he was prepared to lease the
land required on certain conditions, for an annual rental of £650 per annum,
payable in advance. The principal conditions were that, on the expiration
of the concession, all buildings, machinery, etc., should lapse to him, and
that in case of renewal the lands, buildings, etc., should be leased from him
0 r from his descendants on terms satisfactory to the latter.
After much telegraphic correspondence on the subject, Major Cox pro
ceeded to Mohammerah, at the end of June, in company with Mr. McDouall,
lieutenant Wilson, and Mr. J. B. Lloyd to Ahwaz to meet the Shaikh and
conclude an agreement. Negotiations extended over four days, and an agree
ment was finally signed whereby an area of 650 jaribs on Abadan Island
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The volume contains Administration Report on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for 1905-1906 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1907); Administration Report on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. and Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1906-1907 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1908); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. and the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1907-1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. and the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for April-December1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year Ending 31st December 1909 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911); and Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1910 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911).
The Reports contain reviews by 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 chapters on each of the consulates, agencies, and other administrative regions that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. . The Reports contain information on political developments, territorial divisions, local administration, principal tribes, British personnel and appointments, trade and commerce, naval and marine matters, communications, judicial matters, archaeology, pearl fisheries, the slave trade, arms and ammunition traffic, medical matters and public health, oil, notable visitors and events, meteorological data, and related topics.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 306 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, 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'. page of each folio. The following folios need to be folded out to be read: ff. 40, 261.
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