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PZ 5191/38 'Iraq Petroleum Co's. oil agreement with Iraqi Govt' [21r] (41/64)
The record is made up of 1 file (30 folios). It was created in 19 Jul 1938-17 Aug 1939. 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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698
of the Government but placed free of charge at the
disposal of the Company during the period of this
Convention.
(7Z) The Government undertakes that in expropriation
proceedings the Government will so far as the law
permits act in accordance with the requirements of
the Company as if the Government were the agent of
the Company.
(c) Privately owned land acquired by agreement between
the Company and persons concerned under paragraph
(c) above may be registered in the Company’s name,
and shall not be disposed of without in the first instance
the Government being offered the option of acquiring
such land (including all buildings and materials
abandoned therein or thereon by the Company) at the
price which the Company paid for the land. The
decision of the Government to exercise or forgo the
option shall not be delayed more than thirty days. The
disposal of such land shall be governed by the
exigencies of the Company’s operations and shall not
be effected for the express purpose of depriving the
Government of the benefit of its right of succeeding
thereto under Article 2 of this Convention.
The Company shall be entitled within ‘Iraq to place and
maintain over under and along land belonging to the Government
free of any charge for such land any pipelines required for its
operations hereunder and any telegraphic or telephonic apparatus
erected with the licence of the Government under the provisions
of Article 21 hereof but it shall repair or pay compensation for
an} r damage done by such pipelines or apparatus oi by theii
placing or maintenance. The Government also undertake to
empower the Company to place and maintain such telegraphic
and telephonic apparatus within ‘Iraq over under and along land
not belonging to the Government free of any charge ioi such land
on condition that it does as little damage as possible and shall be
liable to pay compensation for damage done by such apparatus or
by its placing or maintenance. The Government shall prohibit
anchorage near the Company’s pipelines submerged at river
crossings.
Government to make or maintain upon under or along or in the
vicinity of land in the possession of the Company within ‘Iraq
such roads railways aerodromes canals protective bunds flood
protection works police posts military works pipe telegraph and
telephone lines or other works of public utility as shall be
expedient and to pass at all times over and along such works
provided always that such right shall be exercised in such manner
ARTICLE 24.
ARTICLE 25.
Nothing in this Convention shall limit the light of the
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The file consists of correspondence and official agreements relating to the Iraq Petroleum Company's oil conventions with the Iraq Government.
Correspondents include the HM Representative, Baghdad, and the British Embassy in Baghdad.
Also includes:
- the convention published in the official Iraq Government Gazette , No. 49 (4 December 1938) between the Iraq Government and the Basrah [Basra] Petroleum Company Limited (subsidiary of the Iraq Petroleum Company) concluded on 29 July 1938; with published letters exchanged between the Iraq Government and the Basrah Petroleum Company, and the law ratifying the convention.
- the agreement between the Iraq Government and Iraq Petroleum Company, BOD [British Oil Development] Company, and Basra Petroleum Company, dated 25 May 1939.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (30 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 32; 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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- PZ 5191/38 'Iraq Petroleum Co's. oil agreement with Iraqi Govt'
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- 11r, 14r:25v
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