File 1421/1908 Pt 5 'Persia: oil; Anglo-Persian Oil Co's surveys' [‎26r] (51/142)

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PERSIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[January 8.]
Section 1 .
[436;
No. 1
Foreign Office io Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
Sir
TM nr. +' c ! i , , Foreign Office, January 8 , UlO.
IN continuation of the letter from this Office of the -23rd ultimo, relative to the
wliTin ° f of South-Western Persia which your company propose to undertake
with the assistance of an officer of the Indian Survey Department, I am directed by
Secretary Sir Edward Grey to inform you that on the 31st ultimo the draft of a
further telegram to the Government of India, which was stated to have been prepared
at the instance of your company, was communicated to this department by the India
Urtiee with a request lor concurrence in its immediate dispatch.
effwt r. t T Sa ? t Wa ? ‘I 1 r p i^ a , tele g rara from the Government of India to the
effect that Mr. Tate had declined the ofter made to him by your company as his
present pay amounted to 1,000 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. a-month, and it .enquired whether Mr. Scott
of the 1st Dfcfmb ° n ^ termS raentioned iu the tele g ra m of the Government of India
tr. it, n ‘ff repl i V ’ !° the dis P atch of which concurrence was at once given as desired, was
t the ettect that your company agreed to the engagement of Mr. Scott at 1,000 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
a-month without travelling expenses in the field, as the company would provide all
tents and transport. The period of employment was not to exceed two years, and was
to terminate earlier if the tnangulation was completed before the expiration of that
period. 1 he company would attach to the party a young European engineer now in
ifw- 1° ^V' 1 416 t0 P°g ra Phy hhder the supervision of Mr. Scott, so that the native
establishment accompanying the latter should be as small as possible.
, , " as add ® d ‘hat, if Mr. Scott accepted these terms, it was important that he
should proceed to Persia immediately.
I am, &c.
LOUIS MALLET.
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