'14/115 II B. 5. Abu Musa. Abu Musa oxide contracts and concession. Hassan Samaiyeh's dealings with the Germans.' [‎60v] (126/467)

Purport of a letter from E sa bin A bdul L atif t6 S heikh S agar bin K haltd, Chief of
Shargah, dated 8tli Moharrum 1325 (20th February 1907).
After compliments. —I have to communicate with your honour with
reference to the lease which I and two partners acquired from the Government
of Shargah relating to the extraction of red oxide from your island of
Abu Musa. As your honour is aware the document of lease was drawn up in
the names of three persons namely your humble servant. Esa bin Abdul Latif
Haji Hassan bin Ali Samaiyeh and Abdulla bin Hassan Samaiyeh.
I have come to know that on 1st June 1906 (8th Eabi-ul-Thani 1324) the
said Haji Hassan entered into a contract with a European merchant named
Wonckhaus, without consulting me, and that according to the terms of the
document he bound himself and his partners in giving an absolute monopoly
for the extraction of the red oxide for a period of four years. And the said
Haji Hassan executed this agreement and bound himself without consulting
me previous to the drawing of the deed of contract. The details of the said
deed have only now reached me, and I do not agree to the terms of this
contract. Accordingly I forward to your honour a copy of the deed of
contract for you to examine; kindly look into it. I beg from your honour
assistance in taking the necessary steps for the cancellation and annulment
of this contract, for I am altogether unwilling to agree to this lease. Previous
to this I have written to Haji Hassan Samaiyeh expressing my disagreement
to this contract, but he has sent me no answer.
Finally I am obliged to call your attention to the deed of contract in the
beginning of which begins as follows: " Contract between Haji Hassan bin Ali
Samaiyeh of Lingah owner and holder of the Abu Musa Concession, and
Mr. Eobert "Wonckhaus of Lingah." Now Haji Hassan Samaiyeh has no
deed of authority from me giving him any general power in regard to action
which he might take respecting the lease, etc.: how then has Haii Hassan
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right thus to mention hnnself only without consulting or referring jto^
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partners of whom I am one. 1 am in consequence obliged to make a com-
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plaint on the subject to your honour, and it is for your honour to issue
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Tran-lation of a letter dated 9th Moharrum 1325 (21st February 1907) from Sheihh S agar
bin Khalid , Sheikh of Shargah^ to Haji Hassan bin Ali Samaiyeh.
After compliments. —I have to inform you that Esa bin Abdul Latif
has preferred a complaint to me in connection with the red oxide mines on
Abu Musa, which for some years have been leased in the names of yourself
and Esa bin Abdul Latif and your son Abdulla, according to the deed executed
on 18th Zilkaideh 1315 (21st April 1899). He has sent me a copy of the deed
of contract in operation between you and Mr. "Wonckhaus and complains that
you executed this contract without consulting him and that he does not agree to
the conditions written in the contract now that he has come to know them. I
too do not agree to this contract at all, and as for you, you had no right to give
a contract in this fashion and bind yourself to give away possession of the whole
of the output of red oxide mines to others, for a long period and without
consulting us or making the slightest reference to us. And according to our
view harm will accrue to us from the continuance of this concession in your
hands in connection with Abu Musa j and your conduct in the present case is
a violation of your duty towards us.
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Accordingly it appears to us advisable to withdraw the document of
concession from you, and we now inform you accordingly by this letter, so that
you may realise that the contract between us has terminated. You have no
longer any right of enjoyment * in regard to the mines of Abu Musa.
Seal of SHEIKH SAGAE BIN KHALID.
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Note .—The word used is Tasarrut'^use, possession, enjoyment, occupancy or control.
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