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'File 82/1 III (F 64) Prospecting licenses for Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd, Trucial Coast and Oman' [202r] (418/651)
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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prospects of the Islands ar e at best a eambl e.
If Daly is C0Iaing over to ^ the future i
should like if I can possibly arrange to do s 0 to come down and
meet him. but in the meanwhile do you not think that it would
be advantageous for m e to send Mackie down to you to discuss
in detail the work he has done up to date, if y 0U woula llk9
hiin to come and S09 vou win -wnn t j.
you win you kindly let me Imow and I
will try to send him along immediately.
As regards Muscat, feeling that our negotiations at
Kuwait and Bahrein were of more immediate urgency I had for
the moment dropped the idea of sending anyone to open negotia
tions with the Sultan but in view of your discussions with him
it seems to me that there is a risk that if we dtf not make a
move at once, he may begin to look around for other offers with
the result that when we do make our offer we may find someone
else well dug in as was the case at Easa and appears to be
equally the case at Bahrein. I am therefore contemplating
sending Mackie there at once to present him *ith our draft
and give him time to consider it and formulate his objections
at his leisure, the completion of the negotiations being de-
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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
- 93r, 105r, 108r, 118r, 132r:133r, 136r:137r, 173r:174r, 186r:187r, 191r:193r, 199r:203r, 210r:216r, 220r:221r, 225r, 226r, 232r, 243r:244r, 248r:251r, 270r:275r
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- Jacks, T L
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