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'File 82/1 III (F 64) Prospecting licenses for Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd, Trucial Coast and Oman' [14r] (42/651)
The record is made up of 1 file (322 folios). It was created in 28 Nov 1923-9 Sep 1925. 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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^nglo-Persian Oil Co., Ltd.,
Mohammerah.
MO.Ul.
GUM JP IDi^MT I Axt# ^a0rah t
Tke 23rd January, 1925,
My dear blr,
Ji mm in reoeipt of your confidential latter ^0,7521 of
the l8th Instant.
1 took an opportunity to see Abdul i^atlf xasha al mandl]
this morning and mentioned to him, inter alia, that tte negotia
tions between the test em and vieneral with are reported to
hare fallen through, and 1 enquired from him as to what hie
were as to the relations between the ibn baud and Mr«flolJBee«
He informed me that the latter had written to hiis a few days ago,
intimating that he desired to oome down to jsaerah and dlsouss
important matters with him; and farther that mr. nolmee and hie
wife arrived here last night and were putting up with him. ne
had not ee^ii Mr. holmes as yet and oould not say as to what
thoee raatuers were, iie observed that while the agreement between
Mr. aolmee and ibn Saud provided that operations should oomiBnoe
six months a^fter the signature of the agreement, and while over
three months had already passed, jar. holmes did mot appear to
have taken any aotion to start work, and that he did not appear,
to all Intents and purposes, to be bent upon doing so at an early
date f as Abdul i^atif had not seen any engineers or teohniaal
with him. Abdul juatif said that the agreemsnt will
automatloally oease to exist if Mr. holmes failed to start work
oar on the expiry of the tiaB-iiim *.14 owed; that aolmee had
brought a epeoial mot or-oar adapted for work to een dy pi
aoes euoh
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The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Department, the Colonial Office and the Secretary of State at the 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. 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. at Bushire, the Political Agents at Kuwait and Sharjah, local rulers, and Anglo Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives on the negotiations for oil concessions in Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd [Najd, Jubail, Saudi Arabia], Qatar, Muscat, Oman and Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. against the competitor Eastern and General Syndicate Limited, represented by Major Frank Holmes.
The volume includes the agreement on the oil exploration license in Muscat and Oman, in Arabic and English, signed on 18 May 1925, between Saiyid Taimur bin Faisal, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and D'Arcy Exploration Company limited (folios 281-296).
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- 1 file (322 folios)
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The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order.
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The main foliation is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The numbering begins with the first item of correspondence, on number 1, and ends with the last folio of writing, on number 314.
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- IOR/R/15/1/620
- Title
- 'File 82/1 III (F 64) Prospecting licenses for Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd, Trucial Coast and Oman'
- Pages
- 14r:16r
- Author
- Muhammed, M
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