'Historical Summary of Events in the Persian Gulf Shaikhdoms and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, 1928-1953: Appendices, Genealogical Tables' [120v] (27/142)
The record is made up of 1 volume (65 folios). It was created in c 1953. 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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6. We respected and compiied with the terms ot the agreement we agreed
upon through His Excellency 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.
and which we signed on the
23rd June, 1944, after it had been signed by the Shaikh of Qatar. But the Shaikh
of Qatar has not fulfilled his obligation.
7. We acted according to the agreemeht; but the Ruler of Qatar did not care
for it; and we made complaints to you in this respect.
We therefore request you to settle this case as soon as you can.
(iii)
(Paragraph 34)
Letter, dated June 24, 1948, from the Ruler of Bahrain to the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs
The following is what I am still prepared to do: —
{a) To define, as is shown on the map herewith, the area of
Zubarah
18th-century town located 105 km from Doha.
. To hold
this land and what is on it in free use by my family, my adherents and my subjects.
{b) To hold the land so defined as in private ownership for ever,
(c) To surrender to the Shaikh of Qatar or otherwise renounce all oil rights
in the Zubara area; in this connexion I would like to point out that I have never
at any time claimed such rights there.
id) Subject to my seeing the oil concession Agreement between the Shaikh of
Qatar and the Petroleum Concessions Limited to respect the provisions of that
Agreement so that all its benefits, entirely, go to the Shaikh of Qatar.
(e) To obtain the surrender by the Bahrain Petroleum Company of any claims
they have or may have in Zubara under the concession which they hold from me in
my territories.
if) To continue, as now and as before, to allow Petroleum Concessions Limited
freedom to conduct its business in my country and to buy water from here and
carry it to Qatar. In this connection I hope that ways may be found to provide
enough water for the needs of the Company in Qatar, without exposing my country
to detriment or bad consequences, by pipes from Bahrain.
(g) In return for this fair offer I require to obtain the rights of my family, my
adherents and my subjects at Zubara including freedom and security for their lives
and property similar to the conditions which they enjoyed at Zubara prior to the
dispute in 1936.
APPENDIX E
(Paragraph 43)
Delimitatioii of the Bahrain-Qatar Sea -bed Boundary—1947
Letter, dated December 23 1947, from 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.
, Bahrain, to the Ruler of
Bahrain
I am instructed by the Honourable 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.
to inform Your
Highness that His Majesty's Government has, for some time past, had under
consideration the boundary which should delimit Your Highness's rights in the bed
of the sea lying between the territory of Your Highness and that of His Excellency
the Shaikh of Qatar. Apart from any other considerations the operations of the
Oil Companies in Your Highness's and His Excellency the Shaikh of Qatar's
territory make such a delimitation necessary.
2. I am, therefore, to forward herewith for your Highness's information a
copy of a map showing the line (from point " M " to the " Bahrain Light Vessel")
which. His Majesty's Government considers, divides in accordance with equitable
principles the sea-bed aforesaid. This is a median line based generally on the
configuration of the coast-line of the Bahrain main island and the peninsula of
Qatar.
3. With the exceptions noted below His Majesty's Government will in future
regard all the sea-bed lying to the west of this line as being under the sovereisntv of
Your Highness and all the sea-bed lying to the east of it as being under the
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Appendices to IOR/R/15/1/731(1). The appendices relate to the chapter on general matters, and to the chapters on Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the Trucial States A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , and Muscat. Also includes genealogical tables of Ruling Families in the Gulf at the end of the volume and (separately filed) further handwritten genealogical tables.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 110 on the front cover and terminates at 176 on the last of the loose folios stored in polyester sheets. These numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. The foliation sequence is a continuation of that in the main part of the document - IOR/R/15/1/731(1).
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