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Coll 28/85 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Anglo-Persian Oil Company.’ [155r] (313/380)
The record is made up of 1 file (187 folios). It was created in 22 Dec 1934-21 Mar 1947. 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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3
Translation.
ARTICLE 3.
The Company shall have the non-exclusive right to construct
and to own pipe-lines. The Company may determine the position
of its pipe-lines and operate them.
ARTICLE 4.
(A) Any unutilised lands belonging to the Government, which
the Company shall deem necessary for its operations in Persia and
which the Government shall not require for purposes of public utility,
shall be handed over gratuitously to the Company.
The manner of acquiring such lands shall be the following :
whenever any land becomes necessary to the Company, it is bound
to send to the Ministry of Finance a map or maps on which the
land which the Company needs shall be shewn in colour. The
Government undertakes, if it has no objection to make, to give its
approval within a period of three months after receipt of the
Company's request.
(B) Lands belonging to the Government, of w r hich use is being
made, and which the Company shall need, shall be requested of the
Government in the manner prescribed in the preceding paragraph,
and the Government, in case it should not itself need these lands and
should have no objection to make, shall give, within a period of three
months, its approval to the sale asked for by the Company.
The price of these lands shall be paid by the Company ; such
price must be reasonable and not exceed the current price of lands
of the same kind and utilised in the same manner in the district.
(C) In the absence of a reply from the Government to requests
under paragraphs (A) and (B) above, after the expiry of two months
from the date of receipt of the said requests, a reminder shall be
sent by the Company to the Government ; should the Government
fail to reply to such reminder within a period of one month, its
silence shall be regarded as approval.
(D) Lands which do not belong to the Government and which
are necessary to the Company shall be acquired by the Company,
by agreement with the parties interested, and through the medium
of the Government.
In case agreement should not be reached as to the prices, the
Government shall not allow the owners of such lands to demand a
price higher than the prices commonly current for neighbouring
lands of the same nature. In valuing such lands, no regard
shall be paid to the use to wLich the Company may wish to put them.
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Correspondence concerning diplomatic relations between the British and Persian Governments over the concession and operations of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited (from 1935, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited), referred to as APOC hereafter. The file includes: correspondence dated 1933 to 1935 from the British Consul at Kermanshah, reporting progress of the construction of APOC’s oil refining facilities at Kermanshah; correspondence dated 1939 and 1940 reporting on the Shah of Persia [Reza Shah Pahlavi] and his Government’s efforts to renegotiate the terms of the APOC concession, in light of the heightened strategic importance of APOC’s oil production to Britain during wartime conditions; correspondence dated 1941 reporting on wartime developments, the likelihood of German occupation of Iran, and the threat to APOC oil production in the country. The file also includes: two bound and printed copies of the APOC Concession 1933-1993, printed in French and English, and accompanied by a fold-out map of the concession area (ff 127-149, ff 150-172); an illustrated brochure, published by APOC in 1924 to commemorate the company’s stand at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924 (ff 109-126).
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- 1 file (187 folios)
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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 inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 188; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Coll 28/85 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Anglo-Persian Oil Company.’
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- 150r:172v, 127r:149v
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