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'File 5/2 VI Kuwait Neutral Zone' [105r] (209/702)
The record is made up of 1 file (348 folios). It was created in 23 Oct 1948-16 Dec 1949. 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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and ores such as gold, silver, copper, lead, potash, sulphur, precious
stones, mineral waters, salt or any other minerals or gases, other
than those which are the subject of this concession, which it may have
discovered, and the Government has the absolute right to grant special
- concessions for the same to any party it desires, giving to the Company
a preferential right thereto upon the same terms and conditions which
are offered in the highest bid acceptable to the Government.
(e) The Company shall protect most carefully any antiquities,
graveyards, cemetries, ramparts, monuments and treasures discovered
by it in the course of its explorations and researches and shall
inform the Government thereof at the earliest possible moment so that
the matter may be properly dealt with. Such antiquities and other
treasures shall be property of the Government.
(f) The Company shall, moreover, give the necessary instructions
to its geologists to report to it any area or location which appears
likely to yield sweet water by boring and shall order them to mark
any such locations with a flag to indicate such likelihood. The
Company undertakes to keep the Government informed of all reports of
this nature and as to the land or lands therein referred to. The
Company will provide hand pumps or wells where water is found in
sufficient quantities and where it is practicable to do s* in the
light of the Company’s operations.
ARTICLE 37. The Company shall fly the flag of Saudi Arabia within
the Neutral Zone.
ARTICLE 38. The Company may use, without charge therefor, other than
the normal fees paid by all other users of such harbors, any and all
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This file contains correspondence relating to the operations of oil companies in the Neutral Zone between Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq. The correspondence is primarily between British officials, but also includes letters to and from the American Independent Oil Company, and the Kuwait Oil Company. Of note are several agreements, and drafts of agreements relating to the operations of the oil industry in the Neutral Zone and in Kuwait.
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- 1 file (348 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 351; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- IOR/R/15/5/257
- Title
- 'File 5/2 VI Kuwait Neutral Zone'
- Pages
- 76r:116v, 150r:166v, 202r:202v, 302r:306v, 313r:329v
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