'Oil Concessions' [‎47r] (112/480)

Government had no such intention, and that their only
wish was that the Company should maintain an office or
agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in this country under a British suhject, through
whom all communioations "between His Majesty's Government
and the Company should be addressed. Mr.Janson was
informed that he had rightly interpreted the wishes of
His Majesty's Government, and it was agreed to assure
the Eastern Gulf Oil Company that His Majesty's Government
realised that the registered office of the Canadian
Company must be situated in Canada, and that all they
wanted was that the Canadian Company should open an office
in this country, which should be in the charge of a
British subject, who should be the recognised channel cf
communication between the Company and His Majesty's
Government.
The precise nature of the formal instrument
governing the assignment of the Syndicate's rights under
the Bahrein Agreement was then discussed# It was agreed
that this should take the form of a tripartite deed, to
be signed by or on behalf of the Shaikh of Bahrein, the
Eastern and General Syndicate, and the Eastern Gulf Oil
Company, and that in this document the Shaikh should
confirm the assignment, subject to the conditions set out
in Colonial Office letters of the 16th of September and
the 3rd of January, and the Company should covenant to
carry out those conditions, which conditions should be
made expressly subject to the penalty provisions of
Article VII of the Agreement of the 2nd of December,1925,
and Article XI of the Mining Lease scheduled thereto#
It was agreed that a reply should be sent by the
Colonial Office to the Syndicate's letter of the 30th of
January, conveying the assurance asked for in Major
Davis's