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'File 53/6 (D 2) Koweit [Kuwait] Affairs, 1898-1899' [‎77v] (154/554)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (280 folios). It was created in 27 Dec 1898-2 Aug 1899. It was written in English, French and Arabic. 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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3. All State lands required for the construction of such lines and ports, and
their appurtenances, as well as all State stone-quarries necessary, to be placed
gratuitously at the disposal of the concessionnaire.
4. The line to be a single one, of broad guage, but the land given must admit of
a second line being- built later on.
5. All tools and implements required for the construction of such lines and ports
to be free from all customs and other duties.
6. The tariffs for passengers and goods to be the same as those now in force in
Turkey.
7. The concessionnaire will form a Societe Anonyme" of Ottoman nationality,
the internal Statutes of which will be submitted to the approval oi the Imperial
Government.
8. The sole right of building stations and stopping-places by waters and rivers
to be met with in the districts traversed by the railways, as well as store-houses
and depots at the said stations, as well as the towns through which the line will pass,
to be exclusively reserved to the concessionnaire.
9. The right of draining and irrigating the lands in the neighbourhood of the N
Tigris, Euphrates, Shat-e' Hindie, and Shat-el-Arab, to belong to the concession
naire, the conditions to be with those accepted by the Imperial Government
in similar undertakings.
10. The concessionnaire will enjoy the right of making the necessary construc
tions for improving the channel of the above-enumerated rivers and canals, and of
navigating them.
11. The concessionnaire will enjoy the right of working any mines or deposits
of petroleum or naptha to be discovered within 50 kilom. of the centre of the railway,
the concession of which has not yet been accorded to any other person.
I have submitted to His Imperial Majesty the contents of this Petition, and am
ready to discuss with the competent Department the Contract to be drawn up, and
the terms and conditions of the cahier des charges.

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This file contains correspondence between various British officials (and correspondence directly between British officials and members of the Al Sabah ruling family of Kuwait including Shaikh Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ) concerning the nature of the relationship between the British Government and Kuwait.

This correspondence discusses whether or not Kuwait should be made a British protectorate and Kuwait's relationship with the Ottoman state and other foreign powers. A copy and translation (into English) of a secret agreement made between Shaikh Mubārak and the British government is contained on folios 42-43.

The recognition of Shaikh Mubārak as ruler of Kuwait (Mubārak murdered the previous ruler, his brother Mohammed, in 1896) is also discussed.

The file also contains detailed correspondence regarding a scheme, proposed by a Russian named Count Kapnist, to construct a railway line between Tripoli and Kuwait.

Extent and format
1 volume (280 folios)
Arrangement

File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end. An index of topics discussed in the file is contained on ff 1a-2. The page numbers used in this index relate to the foliation sequence in the file that is printed with a mechanical stamp.

Physical characteristics

Condition: Formerly a bound volume, the file's sheets have been unbound and are now loose.

Foliation: The volume is foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover, using pencil numbers in the top-right corner of each recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. . There is an earlier, possibly original, foliation sequence that runs through the volume, using a mechanical stamp.

The following foliation anomalies occur: 1a, 163a, 163b. Folios 258 and 259 are in reverse arrangement.

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English, French and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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