Concessions in Bahrein [Bahrain], Kuwait, &c: correspondence, 1932-Jul 1933 (Colonial Office Secret Print, Middle East No.49) [‎76v] (154/284)

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Within the above-mentioned period of (5) five calendar years The Company will
advise The Shaikh of the Conceded Territory which The Company may select under
this clause, by delivering to The Shaikh for attachment to his copy of this Agreement
a signed map showing in detail the boundaries of the said Conceded Territory.
The term for which this Concession covering the Conceded Territory is granted
unto The Company is of (70) seventy calendar years from the date of the execution of
these presents, The Company yielding and paying, therefore the fees, payments,
royalties, privileges, and rights to The Shaikh and subject to the provisions hereinafter
enumerated.
If The Company unless prevented by The Act of God or from war, fire, flood, or
lightning or some other thing beyond human control, shall not have commenced its
exploratory work of the Kuwait territory through examination and investigations by
geologists and engineers within a period of (9) nine calendar months from the date
hereof, then the provisions of these presents shall lapse and this Deed shall be null
and void and neither party shall have any claim against the other in consequence thereof
and no money already paid to The Shaikh shall be returnable. .
(2) The Shaikh hereby grants to The Company , during the term of this Con
cession, the exclusive right to explore the Conceded Territory for petroleum, natural
gas, asphalte, azokerite, oil and its products and grants to The Company the exclusive
ownership of all said substances won from the Conceded Territory , with the exclusive
right to search for, own, exploit, develop, carry away, export and sell said substances so
won from the Conceded Territory , and for that purpose, and in connexion therewith,
exercise in, over and upon the said lands any or all of the following things :—
(a) To drill, sink, make, erect, set, and construct wells and pits, waterways,
pipelines, engines, machinery, furnaces, brick-kilns, cement ovens, workmen's
cottages, construct railways, bridges, tramways, and other ways of communication,
canals, wharves, dams, erections, and other works, to build dwelling houses for
The Company's agents and workmen and set up stations thereto, to install tele
phone and telegraph lines, and to do generally whatever The Company may deem
expedient for the proper exploitation of the Conceded Territory provided that
does not harm private and general interests.
{b) To exclusively erect oil refineries, oil and water tanks, outside the present
existing town wall of Kuwait, wherever The Company shall deem suitable whether
in proximity to discovered wells or otherwise, provided such action does not in
any way harm the private and general interest.
(c) lo have and use free for any purpose connected with the working of the
said Conceded Territory , stone, sand, cement, lime, and other construction
mateiials, and any water within the territory of The Shaikh , make and construct
water-courses, reservoirs, and ponds for collecting such water, provided no harm
to the general public or individuals is apparent.
The Company shall in peace time throughout the period of The Concession.
accept and transmit, on its telegraph lines. The Shaikh's Government's telegrams
whether in cypher or in clear and likewise allow him the use of its telephone "lines,
and also The Shaikh may use the railways, on special personal services throughout
the period of The Concession during peace time, and have the full use thereof when
his country is at war.
(3) The ports and buildings which The Company require shall be erected outside
the present existing town wall of Kuwait, The Company shall have the riaht within or
wi thout the Conceded Territory to construct oil refineries and appurtenances thereof
and develop the harbours along the coast of Kuwait territorv and to erect and construct
wharves, cranes, employ dredgers, lay down buoys and erect lighthouses and do what
ever may be necessary to make the harbours safe for the navigation of ships and barges,
t if loading ami unloading of oil and its products, machinery and other goods belonamo-
o or sent to The Company, The Shaikh granting free of all charges to The Company^
the necessary and proper surface rights in connexion with such harbours The Customs
Admmistration of the ports developed by The Company shall be under The Shaikh's
ocal Customs Cfficmls and The Company undertakes to erect a convenientlv larae
building for Customs House at each such point and a suitable residence for The
Shaikh s Official Eepresentative Should it be necessary also to maintain a guard for
the protection of The Company's works (wells, &c.) inland or along the pipelines or
other communications to the sea, The Company shall build suitable Lildin^s for suc^
guards at its own expense. & iU1 sucn
Ihe Shaikh s flag and no other shall be used within the Conceded Territory.