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The record is made up of 1 file (217 folios). It was created in 13 Apr 1936-21 Dec 1948. 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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Received under 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. indorsement
No.Sxt. 1445/47 dated 9.7.'W.
Colonial Oifice,
Dormin^ Str’cet,
■78033/47 3.W.1.
4th July, 1^47*
Dear Donaldson,
Will you please refer to your letters Dos. iSxt*326/47 of
25th February to me and ISxt*852/47 of 23rd April to ./hiteley
about the Aden-Huscat boundary?
I aii sorry that I cannot add any information to that given
to Colonel ay in 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. letter No* Rrt*326/47 of 25th
February, 1947, a copy of which was enclosed with your letter
to me of tne same date, i'ho statement given to the Government
of India in 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. letter No.PZ*3643/33 of 29th June,
1933 that Mis Majesty's Government agreed that the claim of the
Sultan of iiuacat that Has Dharbat All was the boundary of his
territory might be admitted vras based upon information given to
rae personally by the then Sultan of Qishn and Socotra when I
visited Socotra at about that time. / ie people of. the Sultan's
mainland territory of Qisim are Mahras, and lie ooe^lained to me
that mar^r Maiiras also live to the east of Has Dharbat Ali, but
that he nevertneless did not claim ajqy sovereignty beyond that
point* I was rather surprised by this, but the Sultdn observed:
*1 understand that raary Gnglism people live in the south of
France, bat that the British Government nevertheless does not
claim that territory."
^ The Sultan was unable to tell me how tlie boundary ran
inland from Ras Dharbat ;\li* Ingrams' infom tion on this x>oiut
that the 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. gave to Colonel Hey was based upon
subsequent enquiries made by him on the mainland.
Yours sincerely,
(Sgd./ 13. REILLY*
E.F* Donaldson, Esq*, C*M*G.

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The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to oil concessions in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman:

Topics discussed include:

Use of airfields by Petroleum Concessions Limited
Explorations in Oman by the Iraq Petroleum Company
A map of concession areas in the Middle East
Demarcation of the Muscat/Aden boundary
Explorations for oil in Hadhramaut, Mahra, and Dhofar.

Included in the file is a copy (folio 83) of the letter in 1929 from Sultan Taymūr bin Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īd to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Muscat (Gerald Patrick Murphy concerning the boundaries of Dhofar province.

Also included (ff 94-95) are the 'Instructions to Field Party for Geological Reconnaissance of Southeastern Hadramhaut, the Mahra and Dhofar'.

The file features the following principal correspondents: the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Muscat (Ralph Ingham Hollows); the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (William Rupert Hay); the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain; Iraq Petroleum Company (Stephen Hemsley Longrigg); the Manager, Petroleum Concessions ( Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ) Limited, (Basil Henry le Riolet Lermitte); and Representative for Petroleum Concessions ( Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ) Limited (Richard Bird).

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1 file (217 folios)

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 219; these numbers are written in pencil 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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English in Latin script

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Reference: IOR/R/15/6/428
Title: 'File 14/1- Vol 6 OIL CONCESSIONS MUSCAT'
Pages: front, front-i, 2r:11r, 12r:26v, 28r:44v, 47r:47v, 49r:50v, 52r:59v, 61r:62v, 64r:71v, 75r:82v, 84r:86v, 88r:99v, 103r:110v, 112r:114v, 115v, 117r:120v, 123r:137v, 140r:141v, 144r:145v, 147r:151v, 153r:155v, 161r:163v, 165r:168v, 170r:179v, 181r:183v, 186r:190v, 192r:192v, 194r:194v, 196r:196v, 202r:206v, 208r:218v, back-i, back
Author: East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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