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'Dhofar [oil concession agreement]' [‎4r] (7/24)

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The record is made up of 1 file (12 folios). It was created in 24 Jun 1937. 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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3 .
ARTICLE 11• (a) The Company shall have the right to
import water, the Substances, fuel machinery, motor-cars and
lorries, aircraft, equipment, plant, timber, utensils, iron
work, building materials, food supplies, medicines, medical
supplies, office equipment and household furniture, and other
materials, equipment and goods of whatsoever nature required
by the Company and its employees for the purpose of its
operations hereunder and to export the Eubstances and articles
previously imported by the Company free of customs or export
duty and taxes or other charges, but it shall pay on all
personal goods, clothing and general merchandise imported by
the Company for the personal use of its employees or for
resale to them the ordinary duty in force for the time being
in the Leased Area. Saving as in Article 6 and in this
Article provided, the Company, its personnel, its operations,
income, profits and property including the Substances shall
be exempt and free during the period of this Agreement from
all present or future harbour duties, import duties, export
duties, taxes, imposts and charges of any kind whether State
or local, tolls and land surface rent of whatever nature.
In consideration of the right herein granted the
Company shall, after signature of the declaration referred to
in Article 6, pay to die Sultan within (3) three months after
the close of each calendar year the sum of (4) four annas per
English ton of 2,240 lbs. in respect of the Substances won
and saved during the said calendar year.
This payment of annas four (4) per ton is in
addition to the Royalty of Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. three (3) and annas (2) two
for natural gas sold provided in Article 6 hereof.
(b) The importation by the Company of firearms and other
weapons is prohibited, except with the written permission of
the Sultan.
ARTICLE 12 . The Company recognises that certain parts
of the Sultan’s Territory are not at present safe for its
operations. The Sultan undertakes on his part to use his
good offices with a view to making it possible for
representatives of the Company to enter such parts and will
inform the Company as soon as such parts become safe.
ARTICLE 13 . (a) For the purpose of its operations
hereunder the Company shall have the right without hindrance
to construct, maintain and operate power stations, refineries,
pipelines and storage tanks, facilities for water supply
including boring for water telegraph and telephone lines and
installations and wireless installations, roads, railways,
tramways, buildings, ports, harbours, harbour works, aircraft,
buildings and landing places for aircraft, wharves and
jetties, oil and coaling stations, with such lighting as may
be requisite and any other facilities or works v/hich the
Company may consider necessary and for such purposes to use
free of all payments any stone, sand, gravel, gypsum, lime,
clay or similar material or water which may be available
provided always that the inhabitants of the Leased Area are
not prevented from taking their usual requirements of these
materials and that the water supply of the local inhabitants
and nomad population who may be dependent on the same is not
endangered. The Company at its discretion may select the
position of any such works. The Company may likewise

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This document relates to the Dhofar oil concession agreed between the Sultan Saiyid Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Sultan of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, and Petroleum Concessions Limited.

The agreement was signed by the Sultan; Ralph Ponsonby Watts, Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. and HBM's Consul at Muscat; and Basil Henry Lermitte on behalf of Petroleum Concessions Limited; on the 24 June 1937. Two sets of amendments are included on the last two folios of the document.

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The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 12; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

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