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'File 82/27 III (F 84) APOC: Qatar Oil' [65r] (127/638)
The record is made up of 1 volume (319 folios). It was created in 22 Feb 1934-30 Apr 1934. 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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the same to His Britannic Majesty's Grovernment for
tneir approval ana only after getting their consent
that I will grant the concession.
lie si dent « No foreign Company will taice the Prospecting License
if they are not sure of getting tne concession. It
would only be waste of time for them. It would also
be difficult for lour Excellency to refuse them.
Shaikh. I will make a stipulation in tne agreement and tney
will be bound to abide by its terms. I will then
refer the matter to the Government and if they do not
agree I will see what can be aone then. ( ShaiKh Hamad .
The matter is a commercial one and it is lor us to
see what is best in our interests. I do not thinic
that the Government would like to press us ana do us
injustice. The Bahrain Oil Concession was given to a
foreign Company,although Bahrain is under the influence
of the Government). I will convey to the Highest
Authorities of the Government what I nave to say then
and as it is now only a verbal conversation and nothinp-
in black and white m a formal way I need not add
iurther. Surely the Government would not agree to
anything contrary to rules ana justice. When Knox
wanted to do (he did not mention what was that thing)
they did not allow him. At any rate I nave not yet
done anything contrary to the terms of the Treaty and
would leave matters for discussion when such terms are
being infringed. -The Treaty does not include tne
interior but only the coast ana I have some other
arrangement with Bin Sa'ud according to which no one
ventures to encroach upon my territory. He aoes not
/encroach
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The volume contains correspondence and notes of meetings 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. at Bahrain and 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 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 and ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, Shaikh of Qatar, the Foreign Office, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) and H.M.'s Ministry at Jedda in regard to the southern borders of Qatar, the Qatar oil concession and the relations of the Shaikhdom with the King of Saudi Arabia, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd). There are documents in Arabic, mainly letters to and from the Sheikh of Qatar. Some of the documents in the volume are marked as confidential.
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- 1 volume (319 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are arranged in chronological order. There are notes at the end of the volume (folios 305-311). The notes refer to documents within the volume; they give a brief description of the correspondence with a reference number in blue or red crayon or ink, which refers back to that correspondence in the volume.
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The main foliation is in pencil in circled numbers, in the top right of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The numbering starts starts on the first folio of writing with 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D; and runs through to 312, which is the last number given on the last folio of the volume. There is a blank page at the beginning and three at the end of the volume.There is also another sequence, which is incomplete, written in pencil, in the top right corner, starting with 39 on folio 37 and ending with 299 on folio 312.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- 'File 82/27 III (F 84) APOC: Qatar Oil'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:1v, 1Ar, 1Av, 1Br, 1Bv, 1Cr, 1Cv, 1Dr, 1Dv, 2r:16v, 16Br, 16Bv, 17r:28r, 29r, 30r, 31r, 32r, 33r, 34r, 35r, 36r, 37r, 38r, 39r, 40r, 41r, 42r, 43r, 44r, 45r, 46r, 47r:136v, 140v, 152v:161v, 161Ar, 161Av, 161Br, 161Bv, 162r:199v, 199Ar, 199Av, 200r:208v, 210Ar, 210Av, 210v:276v, 276Ar, 276Av, 277r:284r, 287r, 286r:286v, 287v:308r, 309r:312v, i-r:iii-v, back-i
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