'File 5/1 VIII Kuwait Oil Company' [‎98r] (200/558)

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x’he second document, printed in English and Arabic, is
the draft of a concession of seventy years duration , to be granted
jointly by Ibn Sa'ud and the Sheykh of Kuwait to enable the
Syndicate to prospect for and exploit pei^oleum and gognate
products, but not other minerai/Tls/ in the neutr^ , Z.nne . ^he
proposed agreement consists of a preAmble and thirty five articles
fhe first defines the scope of the concession* Provision is made
for an initial payment within ninety days of signature, a subsequent
annual rental and a royalty per ton, to Replace the rental, as soon
as oil is discovered in commercial quantities* All sums under
these heads are left to be filled in adater* The Syndicate seeks in
draft very extensive Fights in regard to the construction of roads
the establishment of means of communicating by tekegrapfe, telephone
and wireless, and the construction of harbours, pipe lined etc®
5* The area to be conceded is to be the whole of the Keutral
Zone having an approximate are of 1,700 square miles, bounded as
follows, in accordance with a Sketch map attached to the draft
On the north by the souther>1 boundary of the territory of Kuwait
laying approximately between Ibek longitude 47 •lb* east and
longitude 48 .SO* east and ending at Ras-al Q,ualiyah on the coast
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on the south by a^Line running due west along Parrallel 28.20* xzJufci
north as far as its intersection with longitude 47.45* east; on the
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by the coast between the points already indicated; and on the west
by a line running south from the north-west is o LI Tit
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comes of the territory (approximately Longitude
47.45* east. I think I have Reproduced this defiuation accurately,
but I am not clear as to how far it agrees with that in the Kuwait
Lejd Boundary convention of December 2nd, 1922.
6. You will see by the ^closed record that iwayni stated
categorically to me tha& Mr. Philby v/as working in the interests
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of standard Oil of California. Mr Ph|ilby 1 s contacts v/ith all
concerned have teen numerous but I have no reason to accept thiB
j^tdcular statement and I should be very sorry^to take Awayni f s
unsupported woifilfor it. It is perhaps more important to know
bo v/hat, if any, American interests the Eastern and General Syndicate
Zone
is now committed in -respect of the Keutral jdanand what is the role
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