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File 4030/1913 Pt 2 'Baghdad Railway: Negotiations; Navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates' [60r] (115/192)
The record is made up of 1 file (95 folios). It was created in 9 Dec 1913-21 Jul 1914. It was written in English and French. 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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ANNEX.
Draft of Memorandum to be exchanged by Lord Inchcape and Mr. J. Lynch.
^° n ^HEREAS it is desirable that the proposed Ottoman Navigation Company and
the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company shall work together for the
mutual advantage of both concerns and that it is contemplated to have a Management
Company to work both concerns as one so as to save expense in administration and
management, it is agreed that until the proposed Ottoman Company is formed there
will be no redaction of rates made by Lord Inchcape, except with regard to allowances
required under clause 29 of the concession signed by the said Lord Inchcape and His
Highness Hakki
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
on behalf of the Imperial Ottoman Government on the 12th
December, 1913, with the view of deflecting the trade from the Euphrates and Tigris
Companv ’and that as soon as the proposed Ottoman Company is formed Lord Inchcape
will use his best endeavours and voting powers to arrange that the Euphrates and
Tigris Company’s fleet of steamers and barges shall be chartered by the proposed Ottoman
Company for the whole period of the concession granted to Lord Inchcape, on a oasis to
give the Euphrates and Tigris Company a return per annum equivalent to the net
earnings of its fleet, after paying working expenses, on the average ot the last hve years,
subiect to the charter rate being reduced in the event of the trade falling away from
any cause, subject always to the fleet being maintained by the Euphrates and Iigris
Company up to its present carrying capacity of barges and power and speed of steamers
and m good order and up to date, and in a state to perform its services economically
and efficiently, vessels and barges being replaced as necessary by new ones of modern
type to the satisfaction of the proposed Ottoman Company, and divergence of opinion
on these questions being subject to arbitration.
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This part contains correspondence that relates to a concession that was granted to the shipping magnate, Lord Inchcape (James Lyle Mackay), by the Ottoman Empire for the formation of a company to facilitate the transportation of goods on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for the construction of the Baghdad Railway.
Much of the correspondence relates to negotiations between Lord Inchcape and John Finnis Lynch of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company to ensure that their respective interests did not conflict with one another.
On folios 15-38, a copy of the Articles of Association and Certificate of Incorporation of Mackay, Lynch and Company Limited (from 31 March 1914) is enclosed.
The principal correspondents are Lord Inchcape; the Ottoman representative in negotiations regarding the concession, Ibrahim Hakki Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. ; the Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey and the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Sir Louis du Pan Mallet. A limited amount of this correspondence is in French.
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- 3r:49v, 52r:67v, 69r:69v, 71r:76v, 78r:79v, 82r:91v, 94r:96v, 98r:98v
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