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'File 82/1 II (F 53) A.P.O.C., and Oil Concession - Arab Coast' [241r] (487/576)
The record is made up of 1 volume (286 folios). It was created in 10 May 1923-9 Jan 1924. 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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B A
K A K • ^ UT'S
The J'jtli i.ece.ibor
MaJJi Hsrtad •a-Sagbar* tha aeraoswt of Kuwat, c-iut
to tee ae at «ay office today anfl rafapred to tue aettep
of toe negotiations vtoloh. were capriefl on between tfe
Siiaiih of Kuwait and Messrs Anglo-Persian till Co .
Ms said tUe.t t.li© tSiaiWi had received, turoucli S«a«S a
Consul tJiere, fresh wo said aade by the A^lo-.r^rsisn
111 Co and that the Shaikh had cansuited hia as to tals
matter. He had advlsod tha Shaikh, he aaid, tuat it
was store compatible with the Interests of tne town and
of the ppeople if the Bhalhh csncluded a aatisTftotor.;
afireeident with the Co • H© was inclined to wlw tnat
the m* il^h will serl ualy c'«i;Adep tha condition#
jut forffrird by the Co • '.le (the;- ai -'-kJ^.) • m .-. o ^Iven -x
Hoi .tee six months within aliich to/ obtain the e ^roval
of the British Government to t»e ro posed agree stent
betf-eea him and the Sahtem Syndicate • That period
had already paaaed and MP Hoi toes had failed to oDtain
trie Govortueut* n approval • '-■> 'ik.JJi hij.d 6t!;..£cstcc.
to the Shi ikh that he wee no lonj er boutw to negotxaue
wltu the Syndicate . He aaid that it was not Josslbl
for U* .Just at pro.ent , to dea-i itu toe
Ai^ lo-Perelan on Co and to settle c.itu thea , as
a Conference was being held betreen the AJ^b potentates
and the amikh had to concantratfe hie at,tent;-on uJ iu,
taut he (H jji Haar .d} hop© that toa Sn.-lkh will t>Ke
the neeasaary action in the Batter as soon t-8 tue
C nferenc© < as over. He desired to Bientlon u '* e * faeta
to m in view of the pro ise he had givaa ae , in Suasaei,
timt ii© TfouXcl use bis Endeavours to assist » I
expreaaed my thanks to hlai and added thet 1 waa but *
that a gentle tan of his foresight and experiwnca t oU ; «■
I., tod lately reallcse the fact t^.t tue Aiiglo-'^wi
Oil was aueh bo re reliable than u 'starts
roduce a large capital . I said that 1 J®* „ f
Irraaponslbla persons vho did not care for tae intereata
of tha country or of tha people wist arw baao -
hard sometiae ago to convince the Shaikh that it was
better for hia to negotiate with tha If ^torn
as it mMiapoaelbl© to us to think that ,
abandon negotiations with tha A .J.C.l. so suddenly
he bad given his word of honour to dlscuES aatucrs v itr.
ttoa * mm Hamad said that I was right and thjt
interested Parties had been wooing on 0?^^ of t«o
Eastern Syndicate . He was inciinea to *h»
of the eondltions mt forward by the Anglo Persian Oil
Go were too elaborate to be eoapr^Uen Bible w t^t
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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 Muscat, local rulers, Anglo Persian Oil Company (APOC) and Eastern and General Syndicate Limited 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. .
The volume includes documents regarding:
- Bahrain: Letter in English and Arabic from 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. in the Gulf to Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, Ruler of Bahrain, informing him that the British Government didn't approve the Bahrain Oil Concession being agreed to Major Frank Holmes, representing Eastern and General Syndicate (folios 41-42) and subsequent correspondence regarding the cancellation of this concession (folios 125-126) and the agreement with APOC;
- Kuwait: Draft Agreements between Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, Ruler of Kuwait, and D'Arcy Exploration Company limited, on the oil exploration license in Kuwait (draft agreement 20 June 1923 on folios 51-60; draft agreement 6 September 1923 on folios 157-171 and draft agreement 18 November 1923 on folios 198-210; in Arabic on folios 229-235) and minutes of a meeting to discuss it (folios 61-64A); correspondence between 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. in Kuwait and the ruler of Kuwait, regarding contacts being made with Major Holmes and Eastern and General Syndicate, in Arabic with English translation (folios 83-89).
- Najd: Report on Najd Oil Concession by J.B. Mackie (folios 31-33); letter from Āl Sa‘ūd, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal (Ibn Sa‘ūd), Sultan of Najd, to the High Commissioner for Iraq dated 21 May 1923, in Arabic with English translation, regarding oil exploration being granted to Eastern and General Syndicate (folios 76-78).
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- 1 volume (286 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are arranged in chronological order. There is an index at the beginning of the volume, on folio 3.
- Physical characteristics
The main foliation is in pencil, encircled, 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 on the first folio after the front cover, on number 1, then 2-63; 64A and 64B; 65-195; 196A and 196B and it carries on to the last folio, ending on 284. There is another foliation sequence, which is incomplete.
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- 'File 82/1 II (F 53) A.P.O.C., and Oil Concession - Arab Coast'
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- 240r:242v
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- Mirza Mohammad
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