'File 82/1 III (F 64) Prospecting licenses for Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd, Trucial Coast and Oman' [235r] (484/651)
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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25 th ^larch
25.
Fo. 86-8
2)xa*. O k*.
1 have seen in Reuters that you are expected
to reach Baghdad about 29th Karch and that you will stay
in Iraq ahout three weeks.
I don 1 1 know if there is any chance of your
wishing to see me about Hajd affairs or those of the
Shaikhs of feast Arabia who have treaty relations with
Kis Majesty^ Governiaent.
I can arrange to come up th Baghdad on fairly
short notice, but I would like, if possible, also to
bring the Political Agents of Bahrain and Kuwait with
me. We should be happiear, of course, if you could
manage a flying trip to Bahrain.
Major Daly and 1 will both be in England on a
few months' leave this summer, so perhaps you will think
it sufficient for us to come and see you in Town.
r :he .Anglo-Persian Oil Company are professing
to be aggrieved at oar failure to get thelw. ooncessions in
Bahrain and Kuwait.
I am not sure whether my despatch of the 28th
February came under your notice before you left England,
so I am enolosing a copy now.
It
'he Right Hon»ble
L. C. M* S. Amery, B.C., M.P.,
Secretary of State for the Colonies,
c/c His Excellency the High Commissioner for Iraq,
B a g h d ad.
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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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- Title
- 'File 82/1 III (F 64) Prospecting licenses for Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd, Trucial Coast and Oman'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iv-v, 1r:2v, 3v:8v, 11v:12v, 13v, 16v:22v, 23v:38v, 40v:44v, 45v:47v, 48v:53v, 54v:66v, 67v:68v, 69v:74v, 75v:89v, 90v:92v, 93v, 95v:98v, 100v:104v, 105v:107v, 108v:109v, 110v:117v, 118v:131v, 133v:135v, 137v:146v, 147v:148v, 149v:152v, 153v:172v, 174v:185v, 187v:188v, 190v, 193v:197r, 198r:198v, 203v:209v, 216v:219v, 221v:222v, 223v:224v, 225v, 226v:231v, 232v:242v, 244v:247v, 251v:261v, 263v:269v, 275v:281v, 291r:295r, 296r:314v, v-r:viii-v, back-i
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