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File 10/5 I Saudi Arabia: Hasa Oil Concession; visit of Major Holmes to Saudi Arabia; Kuwait blockade. [55r] (138/496)
The record is made up of 1 volume (245 folios). It was created in 15 Mar 1932-9 Jan 1935. 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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an amount agreed upon, and for the purpose of facility thii
payment will be defined as annual rent which shall be paid
in adTance# the rent for the first year shall be paid
during the period proTided for the rticle 15 of this
Agreement, and so long as this agreement is not cancelled the
annual rent will be payable at the beginning of every year
as from the date ji £ this agreement is put into force, and
it (annual rent) must be paid within thirty days as from the
beginning of each year, provided that immediately after the
discovery of oil in considerable commercial quantities no
other annual rents will be claimed or will be liable for
payment•
Article 5« Directly c f ter the date of this agreement
coming into force the Company shall proceed with its plans
together with other preparations for geological work and
arrangements for work so it may make use of the cold weather
which enables it to undertake effectual field work, and
to carry out the clerical work and make reports etc# during
the hot season* In any case the field work should not be
delayed more than the end of September 1933. Such work
should be energetically and strenuously continued till the
beginning of digging operations or up to the end of the
agreement#
/rticle 6» Within 90 days from the date on which digging
operations start the Company shall have leave or surrender to
the Government the places (areas) of the allowed aone, which
the Company may decide are not needed for further work or
for use in another form or manner in connection with this
project. The Company should also surrender to the Government
from time to time during the period of this agreemimt other
€.reas which the Company may decide are no longer required
for inspection or investigation and for use for any purpose
which may have connexion with this scheme. All the places
(areasJ which will be given up by the Company will be
released
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The volume contains correspondence between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in London, 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 and 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 on the Hasa oil concession in Saudi Arabia, the negotiations of the Standard Oil Company of California for the oil concession in Hasa and the visit of Major Frank Holmes to Riyadh to meet Ibn Saud.
The volume includes correspondence on the Saudi blockade against Kuwait, two copies of the Hasa oil agreement between the Standard Oil Company of California and the Saudi Arab Kingdom (folios 52-68 and 87-102) and correspondence on the application of the Standard Oil Company of California for permission to fly from Basra to Bahrain, which encountered resistence of 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, against the presence of American companies in Bahrain (folios 121-123 and following).
There is an index at the end of the volume (folios 212-223).
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- 1 volume (245 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are arranged in chronological order. There is an index at the end of the volume (folio 212-223). The index is arranged chronologically and refers to documents within the volume; it gives brief description of the correspondence with a reference number, which refers back to that correspondence in the volume.
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The foliation is written in pencil in the top right corner (between 44-82 the numbering can be found at the top centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. ). The numbering begins on the first page of text which follows 4 blank pages and terminates on the 5th folio from the back; at the rear of the volume there are 4 blank pages. Foliation errors: 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d and 1e; 29, 29a and 29b; 137A and 137B; 159A and 159B; 169A and 169B; 171A and 171B; 179A and 179B.
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- IOR/R/15/2/421
- Title
- File 10/5 I Saudi Arabia: Hasa Oil Concession; visit of Major Holmes to Saudi Arabia; Kuwait blockade.
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iv-v, 1av:1cv, 1dv:1ev, 2r:29v, 29ar:29cv, 30r:136v, 137ar:137bv, 138r:158v, 159ar:159bv, 160r:167v, 168v, 169ar:169bv, 170r:170v, 171ar:171bv, 172r:178v, 179ar:179bv, 180r:182v, 183ar:183bv, 184v:191v, 193r:199v, 201r:203v, 204v:223v, v-r:viii-v, 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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- Open Government Licence