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'Confidential 86/7-VIII B-45 P.C.L. TRUCIAL COAST' [200r] (404/444)
The record is made up of 1 volume (218 folios). It was created in 12 Aug 1937-29 Dec 1937. 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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Article 13.—(a) The Company shall have free of cost the unrestricted use and
occupation of and surface rights over all uncultivated lands of the State which
the Company may need for the purpose of its operations and in particular
the Company shall have the right to select an area or areas of land chosen by the
Company with exclusive surlace rights upon which to erect drilling rigs, pump
stations, oil refineries, storage, terminal shipping and aircraft facilities and any
other works required for the Company’s operations; and the Company may lease
for such purposes any lands, houses or buildings with the consent of and on
conditions to be arranged with the proprietors thereof, but the terms of such lease
shall not be in excess of those ordinarily current in their respective localities.
(6) The Company shall acquire only such lands, houses and buildings as are
necessary for its operations under this Agreement. The Company shall inform the
Shaikh from time to time of the land, houses and buildings which it requires to
occupy for its operations; and land, houses and buildings previously acquired by
the Company from the Shaikh but found no longer necessary for its operations shall
be returned by the Company to the Shaikh free of cost.
Article 14.—(a) The Company shall have the right to purchase at current market
rates fuel, water, food, building and constructional materials and other supplies of
every kind in connection with its operations hereunder; further the Shaikh grants
to the Company the right to construct new roads for motor and general traffic, and
to make use of all existing roads or tracks free of charge or taxes of any kind
whatever.
(6) The Company shall employ subjects of the Shaikh as far as possible for all
work for which they are suited under the supervision of the Company’s skilled
employees, but if the local supply of labour should in the judgment of the Company
be inadequate or unsuitable the Company shall have the right to import labour,
preference being given to labourers from neighbouring Arab countries who will
obey the local laws. The Company shall also have the right to import skilled and
technical employees. The Company shall pay to the workmen it employs a fair
wage, such wage to be decided and stated by the Company at the time the workmen
are engaged.
Further, the fact of the Company employing subjects of the Shaikh shall not in
any way whatever alter the status of such employees in respect of their rights,
privileges and duties as subjects of the Shaikh, and such employees will remain in
all ways subject to the jurisdiction of the laws and under the legal authority of the
Shaikh in his capacity as the Ruler of the State of Dubai.
Article 15. The Shaikh shall give to the Company and its employees and
property all protection in his power from theft, highway robbery, assault, wilful
damage and destruction, and the Company may appoint in consultation with the
Shaikh and itself pay trustworthy guards who shall at all times be subjects of
the Shaikh unless the Shaikh permits otherwise to assist in protecting the property
of the Company and its employees. The Company shall erect at its own expense
suitable buildings for the accommodation of such guards at such places as the
Company shall decide.
Article 16. In measuring the substances for the purposes of royalty the factor
for conversion of the volume of oil into weight shall be such figure as may be
determined and agreed upon between the Shaikh and the Company after the
discovery of oil and the ascertainment of its specific gravity.
The Company shall measure the substances by a method customarily used in
good technical practice and the Shaikh by his representative duly authorised by
him shall have the right to observe such measuring and to examine and test what
ever appliances may be used for such measuring. Such representative shall comply
with all necessary and usual safeguards for the prevention of fire and other
accident; and shall make all examinations and tests at such times and in such
manner as will cause the minimum of interference with the Company’s operations.
If upon such examination or testing any such appliance shall be found to be out of
order the Company will cause the same to be put in order at its own expense within
a reasonable time, and if upon any such examination aforesaid any error shall
be discovered in any such appliance, such error shall if the Shaikh so decides
after hearing the Company’s explanation be considered to have existed for
three (3) calendar months previous to the discovery thereof or from the last occasion
of examining the same in case such occasion shall be within such period of three
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The volume contains correspondence between 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 Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Trenchard Craven Fowle, Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe), 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 (Tom Hickinbotham, Hugh Weightman), the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. Agent at Sharjah (Khan Sahib Saiyid ‘Abd al-Razzaq), the Secretary of State for India and Burma (Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland), 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. (John Charles Walton, Alexander Colin Symon, John Percival Gibson) and Petroleum Concessions Limited (Frederick Lewisohn, Stephen Hemsley Longrigg, Frank Holmes, Basil Henry Lermitte, Ernest Vincent Packer) regarding negotiations for oil concessions on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .
The correspondence focuses on the negotiations between Shaikh Sultan bin Salim [Shaikh Sulṭān bin Sālim Āl Qasimī], Ruler of Ras al Khaimah [Ra's al Khaymah] and Basil Henry Lermitte of Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) and the progress made in attempting to reach an acceptable agreement for both parties.
Also included in the volume are details of the situation with the Shaikh Ahmad bin Rashid [Aḥmad bin rāshid Āl Mu'alla] of Umm al Qaiwain [Umm al Qaywayn] who wishes to await the conclusion of the Ras al Khaimah negotiations before agreeing to a concession with PCL; Shaikh Rashid bin Humaid [Rāshid Bin Ḥumaid Al-Nu`aimī], Ruler of Ajman who wishes to await the expiry of his existing option with PCL before commencing negotiations; and Shaikh Shakhbut bin Sultan bin Zaid [Shaikh Shakhbūt bin Sulṭān bin Zāyid Āl Nahyān], Ruler of Abu Dhabi, with whom it is concluded that negotiations should be put on hold until the Shaikh’s uncle and chief adviser Khalifa bin Zaid [Khalīfah bin Zāyid Āl Nahyān] had returned from Braimi [Al Buraymī].
Further discussions refer to Qatar, where PCL intended concluding their geological explorations and to commence their drilling programme; and Muscat and Dhofar where they hoped to make use of an RAF plane in order to reach more remote areas for geological survey.
Also included in the volume is confirmation of the acceptance by Shaikh Sultan bin Saqar [Sulṭān bin Saqr Āl Qasimī], Ruler of Sharjah of the political agreement and exchange of notes required by His Majesty’s Government in order approve the concession agreement made with Petroleum Concessions Limited; and the signing of the oil concession agreement in Sharjah on 13 September 1937. Later correspondence discusses some typing errors identified in the text of the concession agreement and the need for the political agreement to be the same as Debai’s [Dubai] and not the amended version recently approved by 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. . Copies of the signed concession can be found at folios 6-85 and 157-175, and a copy of the political agreement and letters to be exchanged at folios 179-186.
Other matters discussed in the volume include:
- formal confirmation by His Majesty’s Government of their approval of the grant of a concession by Petroleum Concessions Limited to the Shaikh of Debai and the acceptance by both parties of this approval. Also includes a printed copy of the Dubai Concession, political agreement and letters exchanged (ff 195-204);
- a letter from the Shaikh Shakhbut bin Sultan, Ruler of Abu Dhabi in response to the ultimatum issued to him by His Majesty’s Government preventing him from negotiating with any oil company not approved by them; and stating that he would negotiate with Petroleum Concessions Limited if approached by them but was otherwise free to negotiate with whomever he wished;
- request by Petroleum Concessions Limited to employ a French citizen, René Pomeyrol, as part of the geological team exploring Qatar and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. as no suitably qualified English geologists were available at that time; and to employ A Abdul Aziz Helmy as an interpreter on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ;
- letters sent by Haji ‘Abdullah Williamson to the Shaikhs of Ras al Khaimah and Abu Dhabi in which he proposes returning to the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and continuing negotiations with them, despite not being permitted to travel there or having the permission of Petroleum Concessions Limited to do so.
A series of file notes which were maintained as a record of the correspondence in the volume can be found at folios 202-215.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (218 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a table of contents on folio 5 consisting of subject headings and page references. The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional mixed foliation/pagination sequence is also present in parallel between ff 7-203; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. The additional sequence is located in the same position as the main foliation, though some numbers are instead located on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. . A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superceded and therefore crossed out.
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