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expense, within three calendar months after the end of each calendar year, deliver to
the Shaikh an abstract of such accounts for such year .and a statement of the amount of
royalty due to the Shaikh for such year. Such accounts shall be treated as confidential
by the Shaikh, with the exception of such figures therein as he may be required by law
to publish. In any event the Shaikh shall have the right to publish particulars of the
total annual output of crude oil and natural gas.
C. 98026/32 fNo. 124].
No. 175.
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. .
(Confidential.)
Sir , Downing Street, 10th November, 1932.
With reference to my Confidential despatch of the 30th of September* 1
have the honour to transmit to you the enclosed copies of a memorandum and com
parative statementf prepared by the Petroleum Department regarding the proposals
of the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company
for an oil concession in Kuwait.
There has not yet been time for the Petroleum Department's comments to be
examined by the other Departments of His Majesty's Government concerned. You
should not therefore broach the matter again with the Shaikh pending the receipt of
a further communication from me.
I have, &c.,
P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER.
C. 98026/32 [No. 1291.
No. 176.
COLONIAL OFFICE to the SECRETARY 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. .
The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies presents his compliments to
the Secretary 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and is directed to request
that the following amendment may be made in the draft memorandum for submission
to the Shaikh of Kuwait which accompanied the Secretary of State's confidential
despatch of the 10th of November'^ sent by yesterday's mail regarding the Kuwait
Oil Concession.
In the note at the head of the memorandum insert in brackets after " first draft "
the words " revised form."
Downing Street,
11th November, 1932.
C. 98026/32 [No. 134].
No. 177..
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. to COLONIAL OFFICE.
[Answered hy No. 184.]
Whitehall,
Sir , London, S.W.I, 12th November, 1932.
I am directed by the Secretary of State for India to say that he has had under
his consideration the papers enclosed in the letter from the Petroleum Department
to the Colonial Office, dated 9th November,§ on the subject of the applications for oil