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'File 10/1 IV Bahrain Oil Concession' [89r] (192/476)
The record is made up of 1 volume (238 folios). It was created in 31 Jul 1933-4 Oct 1933. It was written in English 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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that in his letter of <ind August lie jaad indicated tiiat
referanee to iian i'rancisco, v/iiicix iiad been made by air
mail from jew ^ork, was necessary; tiiat Jie noted that
the time limit within the uompany could submit
an offer was six weeks from the 1st Augustj and that
he would in due course, in the iignt of the
instructions received irom the Company> if they desired
to submit an offer, sufcu t such an offer within the
time limit specified. i understood that he will
probably write us a letter in tnese terms, and send
you this note of our telephone conversation now for
record.
j . aeuain & copies or this letter to Earner
at the foreign ufiice and to iiing at tne Admiralty.
ilours sincerely#
SD/ d. (i. LAITHWAITS.
£l*j£* Ballantyne has just rung up again. He wished
to be clear as to tne relation betv/een the Company's
application for an extension of tne praspecting
licence arid the application for an extension of the
area over which tne Company might operate.
1 said tnat, as he would remember. Major Holmes
nad put forward last April an application for an
extension of tne prospecting licence, witn, as an
alternative, a suggestion tnat the company should be
given an extension of tne area over which they might
operate to 200,000 acres coupled with an extension to
1935 ol tne prospecting licence. xne question of the
extmsion of the prospecting licence and of tne
extension of tne area had become involved in one
another, li he now wisned to deal with them separately
he had better say so.
Mr/
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- Content
The volume mainly contains correspondence, telegrams and notes of meetings 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 Secretary of State for India, the Financial Adviser to the Government in Bahrain, Charles Darlymple Belgrave, and representatives of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) on the Bahrain Oil Concession. The volume also contains correspondence and notes of meetings on the aquisitition of oil rights over an additional area, including the territorial waters of the Bahrain Islands. There are also letters in Arabic to and from the Sheikh of Bahrain, Hamad Bin Issa Al-Khalifah, and confidential correspondence regarding the resignation of Major Holmes from Chief Local Representative of BAPCO, and the translation of a speech read in his honour by Ali bin Hussein (folios 201-203). Some of the documents in the volume are marked as confidential. There is an index at the end of the volume (folios 217-227).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (238 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are arranged in chronological order. There is an index at the end of the volume (folios 217-227). The index is arranged chronologically and refers to documents within the volume; it gives brief description of the correspondence with a reference number in ink crayon or pencil, which refers back to that correspondence in the volume.
- Physical characteristics
The main foliation sequence is circled in pencil, at the top of each folio. It begins on the first page of writing, on number 2, and runs through to 233, ending on the inside of the back cover of the volume.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- Reference
- IOR/R/15/2/391
- Title
- 'File 10/1 IV Bahrain Oil Concession'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:v-v, 2r:14v, 16r:18v, 19v:26v, 27v:40v, 41v:50v, 51v:53v, 54v, 55v:96v, 100v:108v, 109v, 111v:114v, 116r:121v, 122v:127v, 128v:130v, 131v:171v, 172v, 175v, 177v, 179v:183v, 184v:192v, 193v:199v, 200v:210v, 211v:212v, 213v:232v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence