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'File 82/1 III (F 64) Prospecting licenses for Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd, Trucial Coast and Oman' [247v] (509/651)
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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I suggested to H. H. that it would be advisable that Thomas
should see the Agreement before any signatures took place he
will eventually have to see the thing through i. e. the grant
of the Exploration license , and two years afterwards , the
grant of the Prospecting License.
After Mackie took his leave^ yesterday from the interview with H. H
I stayed to talk over matters with H. H, and the latter then said
that he would tell me where, there really was oil. He then
produced a manuscript map of Dhofar and pointed out Kamar Bay.
There is a stream there flowing from the hills that he says- is
him on the Triad to Dhofar and ask Capt Lehr to put in at Kamar
Bay and see the place. One great advantage of Kamar Bay is that
work coUld start there and at Dhofar generally with absolute
safety according to H. H. # while other parts - in the neighbour
hood of Sur/would requite long and tedious pourparlers with the
local inhabitants. H. H. wishes to safeguard himself when
the concession oyer Muscat and Oman , by adding ,, it being iL_Jer-
stood that cartain parts cannot at this ti^jie be entered with
safety . Mackie wants to give a separate letter to the effect tha
the A. P. 0. G, understand that such is the case.and that these
words should not form part of the actual Contract, but I am
against this for legal reasons and consider it inadvisable to have
an;y explanatory letters 11 attached when the meaning can be made
clear in the actual contract.
strongly impregnated with oil. He wants Mackie and me to go with
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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'
- Pages
- 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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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