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File 2830/1914 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Sponge Fisheries. Sponge Exploration Syndicate.' [34r] (72/488)
The record is made up of 1 volume (240 folios). It was created in 18 May 1905-11 Dec 1916. 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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that His Majesty s Government could not recognise any contract which
would interfere with the established rights of Chiefs under British
protection, lour Highness will agree that any infraction of these
lights, hitherto enjoyed, would inevitably lead to grave complications,
which both Governments wish to avoid, as w r ell as to the increase of the
patrol duties, already sufficiently heavy, of the ships of the two
Governments, and from this point of view I am to inform Your
Highness, in anticipation, that His Majesty’s Government will view
with grave concern any open or tacit amplification of the Sponge
Concession as communicated to His Majesty’s Legation in December
last.
With reference to previous correspondence respecting the conces
sions obtained by the Sponge Exploration Syndicate from the Shah of
Persia and the Sultan of Muscat, I am directed by Secretary SirE. Grey
to transmit herewith a copy of a letter from Messrs. Bussell and
Arnholz containing enquiries on the subject.
Sir E. Grey w r ould propose to reply that His Majesty’s Government
are aware cf the granting of these concessions, hut that the Muscat
Concession is for a duration of 15 years only, and does not grant
exclusive rights of fishing for sponges.
With regard to their enquiry as to whether there vmuld he any
objection to the concessions being financed by clients of theirs, Sir E.
Grey would be glad to he furnished with Mr. Secretary Morley’s views
as to whether, since it appears impossible to do anything towards the
cancelling of the concessions, it would not be desirable to encourage
British capital to take them up in order to obviate the danger of their
falling into the hands of foreigners.
Messrs. Bussell and Arnholz to Foreign Office.
17, Great Winchester Street, London, E.C.,
g[ r 26th April 1907.
We are instructed that, on Tuesday the 29th day of August 1905
(27 Djamadi-es-Sanieh 1823), His Imperial Majesty^the Shah of
Persia granted a concession to the Sponge Exploration Syndicate, Lmn e ,
of the exclusive right to fish for sponges in the wa eis e ongm^
to His Imperial Majesty between certain points therein named.
A 2
Letter No. 4.
Foreign Office to
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.
.
No. 13,603.
Foreign Office,
4th May 1907.
Sir,
I am, &c.,
The Under Secretary of State
for India.
E. A. Campbell.
Annex.
S. 17.
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The volume concerns the attempts of a British company called the Sponge Exploration Syndicate to obtain concessions for the fishing and exploitation of sponges in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . However, the papers indicate that it was felt by British officials that the real object of the company was to exploit the Gulf's pearl banks, which entailed the risk of infringing Britain's treaty obligations with the Arab states.
The principal correspondents are the Foreign Office; Major Percy Zachariah Cox, acting as Consul-General for Fars, Khuzistan etc., and 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. ; officials of 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. and the Government of India; the Viceroy of India (the Earl of Minto); and the Sponge Exploration Syndicate Limited.
The papers include: letters of application for concession rights from the company; the granting of a concession to the company by the Government of Persia; the granting of a concession to the company by the Sultan of Muscat; a report by the British Museum, on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. as a possible area for successful sponge fisheries (folios 175-176); the involvement of the company with the rulers of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ; and the rights of British-protected Arabs. The volume also contains an Admiralty chart of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. on folio 50.
The French language content of the volume consists of an agreement on folios 129-131.
The date range gives the covering dates of the main items of correspondence. This is mainly dated 1905-09, with one item dated 1916. The correspondence also includes enclosures dated 1892 (folios 214-215).
Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, year the subject file was opened, subject heading, and list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence (folio 1).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (240 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
The subject 2830 ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. : Sponge and Pearl Fisheries) consists of two volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/456-457. The volumes are divided into two parts with each part comprising one volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 242; 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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- File 2830/1914 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Sponge Fisheries. Sponge Exploration Syndicate.'
- Pages
- 19r:19v, 34r:34v, 84r:84v
- Author
- Russell and Arnholz
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