Coll 30/110(2) 'Oil: Oil concessions on the Trucial Coast. Negotiations with Sheikhs. Ras-al-Khaimah Agreement. Abu Dhabi.' [‎29r] (57/917)

(a) for the import of the Substances into the State from any adjoining
territory by pipe-lines or otherwise for the purpose of operating
any refinery which the Company may decide to erect within the
State, and
(b) for the transport of the Substances by pip© lines or otherwise over
and across the State from and to any adjoining territory to any
point suitable for the refining or shipping of the Substances,
And no duties, taxes, charges or dues of any nature whatsoever
shall be levied in respect of such import or transport.
ARTICLE 13. (a) The Company shall have free of cost the unrestricted
use and occupation of and surface rights over all uncultivated lands of the
State which the Company may need for the purpose of its operations and in
particular the Company shall have the right to select an area or areas of
land chosen by the Company with exclusive surface rights upon which to erect
drilling rigs, pump-stations, oil-refineries, storage, terminal, shipping
and aircraft facilities and any other works required for the Company^
operations; and the Company may buy or lease for such purposes any lands,
houses or buildings with the consent of and on conditions to be arranged
with the proprietors thereof, tut the terms of such purchase or lease shall
not be in excess of those ordinarily current in their respective localities.
(b) The Company shall acquire only such lands, houses and buildings
as are necessary for its operations under this Agreement, The Company shall
inform the Shaikh from time to time of the land, houses and buildings which
it requires to occupy for its operations; and land, houses and buildings
previously acquired by the Company from the Shaikh but found no longer
necessary for its operations shall be returned by the Company to the Shaikh
free of cost.
ARTICLE 14. (a) The Company shall have the right to purchase at
current market rates fuel, water, food, building and constructional materials
and other supplies of every kind in connection with its operations hereunder;
further the Shaikh grants to the Company the right to construct new roads for
motor and general traffic, and to make use of all existing roads or tracks
free of charge, or taxes of any kind whatever,
(b) The Company shall employ Subjects of the Shaikh as far as possible
for all work for which they are suited under the supervision of the Company's
skilled employees, but if the local supply of labour should in the judgment of
the Company be inadequate or unsuitable the Company shall have the right to
import labour, preference being given to labourers from neighbouring Arab
countries who will obey the local laws. The Company shall also have the
right to import skilled and technical employees. The Company shall pay to
the workmen it employs a fair wage, such wage to be decided and stated by
the Company at the time the workmen are engaged.
Further, the fact of the Company employing Subjects of the Shaikh shall
not in any way whatever alter the Status of such employees in respect of their
rights, privileges and duties as Subjects of the Shaikh, and such employees
will remain in all ways subject to the jurisdiction of the laws and under
the legal authority of the Shaikh in his capacity as the Ruler of the State
of Ras-al-Khaimah.
ARTICLE 15. The Shaikh shall give to the Company and its employees
and property all protection in his power from theft, highway robbery, assault,
wilful damage and destruction, and the Company may appoint in consultation
with the Shaikh and itself pay trustworthy guards who shall at all times be
subjects of the Shaikh unless the Shaikh permits otherwise to assist in
protecting the property of the Company ahd its employees. The Company
shall erect at its own expense suitable buildings for the accommodation
of such guards at such places as the Company shall decide.