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'File 6/28 IV Saudi Arabia - Muscat Boundary' [‎43r] (85/106)

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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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Sir R. Hay r s letter
i57/90/1?9 or July
1949 to Mr.
Burrows (?.0.)
(?)
Sila (spring)
(e)
Sufuk
(h)
Battha
(1)
Jebel ’Odaid
(d)
Ras Jaliya
OO
Mirfa
(i)
Radaim
( E i)
Ras al Kahaf.
(ii)
The area west
was surveyed by Petroleum Concessions Limited
geologists in 1933. Their representative
there at the time being Mr. 0. Dixon. Vehi-
fi 37/161/49)
Letter from Mr.
Longrigg (p. c. L. )
Mo.opd of August
26th 1949 to" Mr.
Hogans (F.0.)
Mr. Polly’s letter
476/47/300 Sept.
14th 1930 to Mr.
Rogers (F.O, )
cles for this survey were landed between Rhor
al ’Odaid and Sabhi:ut Matti.
(iii) Petroleum Concessions Limited have
carried out field surveys southwards and east
wards from the south-east corner of Qatar
territory and no objection was ever raised
against them. They carried out similar sur
veys as far as the Sabhliut Matti, and east of
that detailed geophysical survey along the coa
st, and as far south as Badiya. They have sur
veyed and travelled in all parts of the coas
tal belt in addition to mailing isolated jour
neys inland. During all this work they never
cane into contact with representatives of
His Majesty King Ibn Sand.
(iv) The whole of the Abu Dhabi coast
line from khor al ’Qdaid to Abu Dhabi itself
was surveyed in April 1949 by Petroleum
Concessions Limited. I'o objection to this was
Enclosure to Sir
R. Hay's letter
1081/4/6G of Jan.
26th 1931 to Mr.
Fry (F. 0. >.
made by anyone.
(v) Petroleum Concessions Limited have
surveyed Abu Dhabi territory from the base of
the Qatar peninsula to the Abu Dhabi town
/itself

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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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