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‘File 86/2 II (C 31) Eastern and General Syndicate, Oil, Bahrain’ [‎35r] (81/495)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (251 folios). It was created in 16 Sep 1929-15 Jul 1930. 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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be made in the matter until the other interested
Departments of His Majesty's Government, and
possibly also the Government of India, had been
consulted, and that some further delay was therefore
inevitable. They hoped that in the circumstances
Major Davis would return to the United States to
report to his Principals. In any case, Mr.Jans on
and Major Holmes proposed, on receipt of the promised
letter from the Colonial Office, themselves to
proceed to the United States in order to negotiate
direct with Mr.Wallace, the Chairman of the
American group; and they anticipated that, with
the explanations to be furnished by the Colonial
Office and with those which they themselves would
be able to provide, they would find it possible to
secure Mr.Wallace*5 acceptance of the conditions
proposed.
It was also agreed that the Colonial Office
letter communicating the revised conditions should
stipulate that no steps would be taken by the Syndi
cate or the American group which would prejudice
the position of the proposed sites for a landing
ground and sea-plane station in Bahrein, the precise
location of which would be communicated to the
Syndicate as soon as possible.

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The volume contains letters, telegrams and memoranda relating to negotiations over the transfer of the Bahrain oil concession, conducted between the British Government, Eastern & General Syndicate Limited (hereafter E&GS), and the Eastern Gulf Oil Company of the United States (EGOC). The volume is a direct continuation, with some overlap of correspondence, with ‘File 86/2 I (C 30) Bahrain Oil Concession (Eastern & General Syndicate)’ (IOR/R/15/1/649). The principal correspondents in the volume are 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 Bahrain, Captain Charles Prior, Major Frank Holmes, Director of E&GS, and various representatives of the Colonial Office of the British Government in London.

Key subjects covered by the volume include:

  • Negotiations between the British Government and E&GS (on behalf of EGOC) for the transfer of the Bahrain oil concession from E&GS to EGOC, with particular emphasis on four conditions stipulated by the British Government to ensure sufficient British control of a concession funded by foreign finance;
  • An agreement of the concession transfer, and negotiations between the British Government and the solicitors appointed by EGOC (Freshfields, Leese and Munns of London) for the transfer;
  • Questions over legal jurisdiction and property law in Bahrain; negotiations with regard to the liability of the Ruler of Bahrain (Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah) in the event of theft of oil company property by oil company employees;
  • Registration of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) in Canada;
  • Holmes’s trip to Bushire and Bahrain, and his appointment as chief representative of BAPCO in Bahrain;
  • E&GS/BAPCO application to extend the oil concession area across those parts of Bahrain not covered by the existing concession.

The volume contains numerous copies of the indentures and concessions agreements, in copy and original (folios 110-14, 206-10, 211-29).

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1 volume (251 folios)
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The volume’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest items at the front to the latest at the rear. Office notes at the end of the volume (folios 234-38) mirror the chronological arrangement. The subject index at the front of the volume (folio 2) refers to the original foliation system using uncircled pencil numbers.

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Foliation: The main foliation sequence begins on the front cover and ends on the inside back cover, using circled pencil numbers written in the top-right corner of each recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. . A second foliation sequence is present between folios 2-53 and 72-233; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.

The following foliation anomalies occur: 1, 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D and 1E; 2 and 2A; 130 and 130A; 144 and 144A.

Folios 176-195 are bound together and housed in a clear polyester sleeve.

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