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'File 10/13 A.P.O.C. - Miscellaneous' [36r] (77/182)
The record is made up of 1 file (91 folios). It was created in 5 Oct 1936-26 Jul 1944. 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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p.z. 6994/1938.
COPY.
(E 5262/201/3U)
Anglo-Iranian Oil Ooapany's
C onee s si on Are a.
Mr. Mylies ? of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, called on
Mr. Bag^llay this afternoons accompanied "by Dr. Lees, the
Company's Chief Geologist and I t . - v . E. Browne, the Company's
Surveyor, in order to ask advice about the "best v/ay of
defining the limits of the area or areas totalling 100,000
square miles of Persian territory which the Company were now
obliged, before the 31st December 193o and under the terms of
the 1933 Concession Agreement, to choose as thoce in which
they wished to operate their concession for the future.
2. Mr. Mylies and his colleagues explained that up to
certain depths of water modern boring machinery made it possible
to tap oil fields lying under the sea and that there were parts
of the sea in the .ersian Gulf which the Company wished to
include in the area of their potential operations. They
understood that His Majesty's Government held that three miles
was the limit of territorial waters, whereas the Persian
Government claimed a belt of twleve miles. Alon t '; most of the
Persian coast the width of sea which the Company wished to
include in their concession was within the three mile limit.
At the northern end of the Gulf, however, there were parts of
the sea in the twelve mile belt which they wished to include.
3. Furthermore the chosen areas had to be precisely
demarcated in order that the Persian Government mi^ht be able
to checxu the measurements for themselves and make sare that
they did not exceed 100,000 square miles in all. Vims applied
to the demarcation of such sections of the bound ries as
followed/
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The file contains correspondence and telegrams 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. at Bushire, 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. at Bahrain and the British Foreign Office on sundry matters, amongst which: visa arrangements for British nationals, petroleum development in Muscat and Anglo Persian Oil Company (APOC) claim of 100,000 square miles in Persia.
The file includes: 'Facts on food production and distribution' (folios 82-83).
There are file notes (folios 84-87).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (91 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the file are arranged in chronological order. There are file notes (folios 84-87). The notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file; they give brief description of the correspondence with a reference number, which refers back to that correspondence in the file.
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The foliation sequence starts at the front cover; numbering is in pencil and can be found in the top right corner, it starts with 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D and then it carries on until 88, which is the last number given on the back cover of the file.
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- IOR/R/15/2/436
- Title
- 'File 10/13 A.P.O.C. - Miscellaneous'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 1br:1dv, 2r:10v, 12r:25v, 27v, 28v:41v, 45v:67v, 69r:87v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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