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'File 6/28 IV Saudi Arabia - Muscat Boundary' [‎20r] (39/106)

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The record is made up of 1 file (51 folios). It was created in Sep 1949-Dec 1950. 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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/(ii)
(157/151/490)
Bahrain tel. I To.
54 to Jed&a of
September 3th
1949.
(53/138/50G)
Paragraph 2 of
Mr* Polly’s
letter 33/140/50G
of September 23rd
‘go Mr. Rogers
(foreign Office).
Arabia is clearly defined topographically.
■Qatar is the high land. uric. frontier is
whore the hills core do mi to the sand and the
salt flats at the s out he ini end of the penin
sula at its west side.
5. Bride/ico in category (b):
(i) Muhammad bin Saiyid an illiterate
Beni Eajar tribesman of Qatar was summoned
about 15 years ago br; the Amir of ilasa and. sent
to Riyadh where he was asked, by His Majesty
King Ibn Saud to defi.ie the southern boun
dary of Qatar. this ho did by giving a series
of names describing the boundary from Galwa
to the mouth of the Khor al 'Odaid. He gave
a similar description of the boundary to
Saudi officials and to four foreign Consuls.
(ii) Mansur bin Salim', ShaiJfchi of tbe
Shawawin a section of ‘che Beni Plajar who are
Subjects of the Shaikh of Qatar states that
there is a pretty clear geographical defini-
tion of the boundary. the stony ground is
Qatar and the sandy land is Ibn Saul s. I...
addition any camel r-cr
i.O rj
is on jatar turri--
(rile 61 / 31 -vii
page 255) Briga
dier Longrigg’s
letter of April
19th 1946 to Mr.
Burrows (Foreign
Office). (F. 0.
ref. E 4974/605/91)
oory.
6 . Evidence in category (C):
(i) fhe boundary of „atar as specified
in ehe map attached to the Petroleum Conces
sions Limited concession was parked on the
ground in 1940 by concrete pillars and the
geophysical (seismic) parties who were explo
ring in the 1947 - 4 3 season covered the whole
of the western half (of the peninsula) right
up to the concession boundary.

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This file consists of three copies of the following document:

'A summary of evidence available from the files of the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , Bahrain, in support of the claims of Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Muscat to the areas on their side of the boundary lines with Saudi Arabia as defined by His Majesty's Government in the negotiations commencing with the Riyadh talks in September, 1949'

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1 file (51 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 (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 53; 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.

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