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File 2830/1914 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Sponge Fisheries. Sponge Exploration Syndicate.' [215r] (434/488)
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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3rd. —That I will on no account cede, sell, mortgage, or otherwise give
for occupation any part of my territory, save to the British Government.
Dated Shargah, 7th March 1892, corresponding to 8 th Shaaban 1309.
Signature of Saggar bin Khalid, Chief of Shargah.
A. C. Talbot, Lieut.-Col.,
Resident,
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
Lansdowne,
Viceroy and Governor-General of India.
Ratified by His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General of India
at Simla on the twelfth day of May 1892.
H. M. Durand,
Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department.
I. Hamaid bin Abdullah, Chief of Ras-al-Khaimah, in the presence of
Lieutenant-Colonel A. C. Talbot, C.I.E.,
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.
,
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
,
do hereby solemnly bind myself and agree, on behalf of myself, my heirs,
and successors, to the following conditions, viz. :—
Ist .—That I will on no account enter into any agreement or correspondence
with any Power other than the British Government.
2 nc i —That, without the assent of the British Government, I will not
consent to the residence within my territory of the agent of any other
Government.
3 ^.—That I will on no account cede, sell, mortgage or otherwise give
for occupation any part of my territory save to the British Government.
Dated Ras-ul-Khaimah, the 8 th March 1892, corresponding with 9th
Shaaban 1309.
Signature of Hamid bin Abdullah, Chief of Ras-aLKhaimah.
A. C. Talbot, Lieut.-Col.,
Resident,
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
Lansdowne.
Viceroy and Governor-General of India.
Ratified by His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General of India at
Simla on the twelfth day of May 1892.
H. M. Durand,
Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department.
I, Ahmad bin Abdullah, Chief of Umm-al-Kawam, m the presence of
Lieutenant-Colonel A. 0. Talbot, C.I.E.,
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.
,
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, do
hereby solemnly bind myself and^ agree on behalf of myself, my neirs and
successors, to the following conditions, viz. :
That I will on no account enter into any agreement or correspon
dence with any Power other than the British Government. .... ,
2nd. —That* 7 without the assent of the British Government I will not
consent to the residence within my territory of the agent of any other
3 rd' That I will on no account cede, sell, mortgage or otherwise give for
occupation any part of my territory save to the British Government.
Dated Hmm-al-Kawain, 8 th March 1892, corresponding with 9th Shaaban
1309
Signature of Ahmad bin Abdullah, Chief of Umm-al-Kawam.
A. C. Talbot, Lieut.-Col.,
Resident,
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
Lansdowne,
VlWrnv and Governor-General of India.
Ratified by His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General of India at
Simla on the twelfth day ot May 1892.
H. M. Durand,
Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department.
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- Content
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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- Title
- File 2830/1914 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Sponge Fisheries. Sponge Exploration Syndicate.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:9v, 11r:11v, 13r:18v, 21r:33v, 36r:49v, 51r:70v, 73r:83v, 85r:89v, 90v:98v, 99v:128v, 132r:157v, 165r:199v, 203r:209v, 211r:220v, 223r:233v, 236r:238v, 241r:241v, back-i
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