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O. 98035/32 [No. 86].
No. 42.
COLONIAL OFFICE to PETROLEUM DEPARTMENT.
[Answered by No. 46.]
^ IR - ^ Downing Street, 30th August, 1932.
With reference to your letter of the 20th .June,* and previous correspondence
on the subject of the Bahrein Oil Concession, I am directed to transmit to you, to be
laid before the Secretary for Mines, the enclosed copy of a semi-official letterf from the
Bahrein Petroleum Company submitting a revised draft of the suggested provisions for
measuring crude oil won at Bahrein.
2. It will be observed that the Company are of opinion that the suggested modi
fications should be added to (%use VIII of the third Schedule to the Agreement (the
mining lease) rather than to Clause IX of the second Schedule, and that the Company
do not anticipate that any difficulty need be occasioned in connexion with the ascer
tainment of the royalty payable to the Shaikh under the provisions of the ^second
Schedule. It would appear, however, advisable that some provision should be inserted
m Clause IX of the second Schedule or in some other place, as may be considered most
com enient. A suitable formula would appear to be to add to the first sentence of the
proposed new Clause IX the words £c on payment of the royalty per ton provided for
in Article 8 of the mining lease and calculated in the manner laid down in that Article."
3. I am to request that the Secretary for Mines will be good enough to furnish
his observations on the Company's proposal.
4. Copies of this letter are being sent to 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. , the Foreign Office and
Admiralty. &
I am, &c.,
J. E. W. FLOOD.
C. 98035/32 [No. 87].
No. 43.
The SECRETARY OF STATE to 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. .
[Answered by No. 14.]
(Confidential.)
Sir
' T ^ I . t Downing Street, 30th August, 1932
I iia\e the honour to refer to my telegram No. 6 Confidential of the StI, , f
August J and to your Confidential despatch No. J 8 of the 16th of Mav 8 anr" t ' f
you that there is no objection to the proposal that the prospecting S "teV toZ
a hi em Peti oleum Company shall be extended for a period of one vear
2. 1 now enclose for your information a copy of a letterll finm n
from which you will observe that they are now awaitina a S I mXr nf^ 0mpany '
o intimation of the Shaikh of Bahrein's consent. I Resume that the SI, fit?' ^
communicate his agreement to the Company in due course
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year. The interested Departments are being consulted and n fm-il another
will be sent to you on this point in due course CQnS " ltefl anrt a f " rther communication
I have, &c.
(for the Secretary of State),
R- W. HAMILTON.
* No. 28.
f No. 36.
j No. 32.
§ No. 26.
No. 35.