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'His Excellency SHEIKH HAMAD BIN SHEIKH ISSA AL KHALIFAH SHEIKH of BAHREIN AND THE BAHREIN PETROLEUM COMPANY LIMITED. LEASE [COPY]' [2v] (4/20)
The record is made up of 1 file (10 folios). It was created in 29 Dec 1934. It was written in English. 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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The selection of routes and sites for such
works and the course of the pipe-line shall
rest with the Company.
The Company shall at their own expense
maintain and keep in repair the existing
and all other necessary boundary marks at
the corners of the leased area, according to
the demarcation shown in the plan hereto
annexed, so that the boundaries of the
leased area may at all times throughout
the term of this lease be clearly defined.
Article II.
THE Sheikh grants gratuitously to the
Company all land uncultivated at the date
of this lease in any part of the territory
under his control which may be needed by
the Company for their operations, exclud
ing, however, the land within the municipal
boundaries of Muharraq and Manama (as
defined by a red line on the map attached
and forming the Second Schedule hereto)
and the land within a radius of 300 yards
from the northeast corner of the Sheikh’s
Palace at Sakhir (as defined by a green
circle on such map) PROVIDED ALWAYS
that to the extent and for the period to
and for which the Company shall use any
uncultivated land belonging to the Sheikh
in his private capacity and falling within
the land not excluded in the preceding
provisions of this paragraph (other than
the pieces of land used by the Company
at the date of this lease and shewn on the
map attached hereto and bounded by a
blue line) the Company shall, if so
requested by the Sheikh, pay to the Sheikh
compensation for the use and occupancy of
such land. Any such compensation shall
not exceed a fair and reasonable recom
pense to the Sheikh for the dispossession of
his right to the surface of such land and
having regard to the prices ordinarily
current for similar land situated in the
locality; failing agreement as to the com
pensation payable to the Sheikh the matter
shall be referred to and determined by
arbitration in the manner provided by
Article XXII hereof.
In the lands so granted the Company
shall for the period of this lease enjoy full
proprietary rights.
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The file is a copy of a commercial lease between Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, Sheikh of Bahrein, and the Bahrein Petroleum Company, in which the Sheikh grants to the company the exclusive right for fifty-five years to drill for, extract, treat, refine, and deal with petroleum products and natural gas within the portion of Bahrain Island delineated on the accompanying map.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 10; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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