'File 5/2 I Kuwait Neutral Zone' [‎127r] (258/474)

Rulers and Sovereigns of their Dominions for themselves,
Successors and Subjects hereby grant unto the Company
exclusively throughout the NEUTRAL ZONE, (the boundaries of
which are defined below) under the rights, privileges and
interests enumerated in this Concession: and THE GOVERNMENT
AND THE SHAIKH hereby grant free access to all the Agents,
successors and servants of THE COMPANY necessarily employed
by the latter to all parts of the Neutral Zone under the
control of THE GOVERNMENT AND THE SHAIKH, saving only sacred
buildings, shrines and graveyards.
The term for which this Concession is granted unto The
Company is of Seventy (70) calendar years from the date of
the execution of these presents. The Company yielding and
paying therefor the fees, payments, royalties, privileges and
rights to The Government and the Shaikh and subject to the
provisions hereinafter enumerated.
The Government and the Shaikh as Rulers and Sovereigns
of their Dominions for Themselves, Successors and Subjects
hereby grant unto The COMPANY exclusively:-
THE ENTIRE CONCESSION of all the Oil and Petroleum
wells and Ozokerite, Natural Gas and kindred Mineral d«posits
whether in a discovered or undiscovered state, existing in
that Tract of Territory known as the NEUTRAL ZONE, the
boundaries of which have been agreed and defined between the
Government and the Shaikh, having an area of approximately
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty (1720) Square Miles.
Having as its Northern boundary the Southern fiontier of the
Territory of His Excellency The Shaikh of Kuwait which lies
approximately between Long*47 15 1 East and Long.48 c,0 Eas
and ends at Ras A1 Qualiyah on the coast of t he Persian Gu
Having as its Southern boundary a line running due West along
the parallel of Lat.28°20' North until it intersects Long.