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'File 38/17 Delimitation of Trucial state boundaries and Petroleum Concession Limited's Concession Areas on the Trucial Coast' [23r] (46/225)
The record is made up of 1 file (111 folios). It was created in 30 Apr 1947-23 Mar 1950. 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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4. The Shaikh of Sharjah has made his claim to
Dhaid, to which I think he is legally entitled, against
Khalid bin Ahmed; it is pending a settlement of the
latter*s future. But neither this case nor our arbi
tration in the dispute between Abu Dhabi and Dubai is
likely to raise the question of frontiers between the
Trucial Shaikhs and Saudi Arabia.
5. There are no other active disputes over boundaries
between the Trucial Shaikhs.
6. On the subject of enforcement I would not go so
far as to say that the establishment of & local force
will never be necessary, for, if Petroleum Development
(
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
) Limited's activities lead to our having
to take a more active interest in the Dhahirah area, some
thing of the sort might eventually be necessary for use in
Dhank, where at present there is no security and no single
authority capable of establishing it. But I do not regard
such a force as necessary for the enforcement of any settle
ment that we may reach in the Abu Dhabi and Dubai dispute,
nor in the dispute about sovereignty over Dhaid. The
Shaikhs of the
Trucial States
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
are very susceptible to the
sea power that we have had for years and, in addition, we
now have the Royal Air Force to call upon, although we
have never had to do so in the past:. I do not foresee
our having to do so in the near future. The sanctions
that we can use against the Trucial Shaikhs were mentioned^ 1
in the enclosure to my demi-official letter No.C/7, dated
the 3rd January, 1948. In boundary disputes which affect
the development of oil resources, however, by far the most
powerful incentive to settlement is the desire of all the
Trucial Shaikhs to have their oil resources developed, and
the knowledge that no company will develop oil in a dis
puted area will, I hope, eventually lead them to agree to
our arbitration and to their abiding by our awards.
Yours sincerely,
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This file contains correspondence regarding the delimitation of the boundaries of the Trucial states A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. with an emphasis on the boundary between Dubai and Abu Dhabi. On this topic, the file contains a detailed letter by Patrick Desmond Stobart, Political Officer on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. that includes an appendix that gives details of the territorial claims of Dubai and Abu Dhabi (folios 36-51).
The file contains three maps, two identical copies of a hand-drawn sketch map of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. (folios 6 and 9) and a hand-drawn sketch map of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. marking details of the Dubai-Abu Dhabi boundary dispute (folio 33).
The majority of the correspondence in the file is in English, but a limited amount in Arabic is also contained within, including a letter sent from the ruler of Dubai, Shaikh Saʻīd bin Maktūm bin Hasher Āl Maktūm to Cornelius James Pelly, 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 (folio 75).
The file also contains correspondence between British officials and Petroleum Development ( Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ) Limited, the subsidiary of Petroleum Concessions Limited that operated in the states along the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .
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- 1 file (111 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 111; 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 foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-102; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. A previous foliation sequence between ff 1-110, which is circled and located in the top centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Foliation errors: 97a
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- IOR/R/15/2/2015
- Title
- 'File 38/17 Delimitation of Trucial state boundaries and Petroleum Concession Limited's Concession Areas on the Trucial Coast'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:2v, 5r:5v, 8r:8v, 8v, 10r:13v, 15r:32v, 35r:54v, 56r:74v, 76r:83v, 85r:97v, 97ar:97av, 98r:110v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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