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File 10/5 I Saudi Arabia: Hasa Oil Concession; visit of Major Holmes to Saudi Arabia; Kuwait blockade. [‎62r] (152/496)

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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may think necessary fir its work and whicla enable it to fulfil
the requirements 01 this project and wJaioii comprise other
allcirs auch as buildings, using roads, camps, fittings and
all roads lor communications, and to erect and employ machines
and other means which j^aTe connection with the digging of
wells or transport or storage or manufacture or exportation
of petrol and its products or any other thing which may have
connection with the camps, buildings and the premises to be
engaged by the employees of the Company. She Company
haa the right to build and use cisterns, reservoirs and basins
and also has the right to build piers, quays and lines for
shipments and to use all other means for the transport of
employees machines and petrol and its products. At any rate
it is understood that the question of employing aeroplanes
within the limits of the country will be subject to another
separate agreement, fhe Company hare the right to procure,
take and use water and also nas the right to take and use any
water which belongs to the (ioTernment for th^purpose of
carrying out the work in connection with the project provided
that such action must not cause harm to irrigation or deprive
land houses and watering places of sufficient water from time
to time, xhe Company has the right also to make use of any
natural products which belong to the Government such as sand,
timber, lime, stones, gypsum and other materials of the same
nature. Government employees and agents (during performance
of their official duties) will have the right to use the means
of transport and communications wnich will be established by
the company provided that such action should not hinder or
entangle the affairs of the Company indicated in tnis agreement,
ana should noi cause the Company any material loss. Ihe
engagement of the means of transport and communications belonging
to the Company by the Government during the occurrence of
national trouble will render the Company to be entitled for
reasonable compensation for any loss which it may undergo or
for any barm which may occur to the works and establishments of
the

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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)
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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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