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Coll 28/55 ‘Persia. Anglo-Persian Oil Company. Relations with Persian Govt.’ [‎30v] (71/1090)

The record is made up of 1 volume (541 folios). It was created in 8 Aug 1932-14 Sep 1933. It was written in English, French and German. 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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Article 27
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et nromuWfe par le decret de Sa Majeste impdriale le Chah. Le Gouvernement
s’engage a soumettre cette Convention, le plus tot possible, k la i a i c a ion du^
Medjlesse.
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Pour le Gouvernement imperial de la Perse:
S. H. TAQIZADEH.
For and on behalf of the Anglo-Persian Oil
Company (Limited):
JOHN CABMAN, Chairman.
W. FRASER, Deputy Chairman.
(Translation.)
Preamble.
FOR the purpose of establishing a new Concession to replace that which
was granted in 1901 to William Knox D’Arcy, the present Concession is
granted by the Persian Government and accepted by the Anglo-Persian Oil
Company (Limited).
This Concession shall regulate in the future the relations between the two
parties above mentioned.
Definitions.
The following definitions of certain terms used in the present Agreement are
applicable for the purposes hereof without regard to any different meaning which
may or might be attributed to those terms for other purposes :—
“ The Government ” means the Imperial Government of Persia.
“ The Company ” means the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (Limited) and all
its subordinate companies.
£ ‘ The Anglo-Persian Oil Company (Limited) ’ ’ means the Anglo-Persian Oil
Company (Limited) or any other body corporate to which, with the consent of
“the Government'' (article 26), this Concession might be transferred.
“ Subordinate Company ” means any company for which “ the Company ” has
the right to nominate directly or indirectly more than one-half of the directors,
or in which “the Company" holds, directly or indirectly, a number of shares
sufficient to assure it more than 50 per cent, of all voting rights at the general
meetings of such a company.
“ Petroleum ” means crude oil, natural gases, asphalt, ozokerite, as well as
all products obtained either from these substances or by mixing these substances
with other substances.
“ Operations of the Company in Persia ” means all industrial, commercial
and technical operations carried on by “the Company” exclusively for the
purposes of this Concession.
Article 1.
The Government grants to the Company, on the terms of this Concession,
the exclusive right, within the territory of the Concession, to search for and
extract petroleum, as well as to refine or treat in any other manner and render
suitable for commerce the petroleum obtained by it.
The Government also grants to the Company, throughout Persia, the
non-exclusive right to transport petroleum, to refine or treat it in any other
manner and to render it suitable for commerce, as well as to sell it in Persia and
to export it.

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Correspondence and other papers relating to the Persian Government’s annulment of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) concession in December 1932, and the ensuing diplomatic crisis between the two countries. The papers include: diplomatic exchanges between the British and Persian Governments and APOC, as reported by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. in Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare; correspondence between the Foreign Office and 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. ; parliamentary notices reporting questions on the crisis raised in the House of Commons; the response of the British press to the annulment, with a large number of newspaper cuttings from British newspapers (chiefly The Times , The Daily Herald , The Morning Post ); the British Government’s referral of the dispute to the Council of the League of Nations; the British Government’s despatch of Royal Naval vessels to Abadan; papers from the Council of the League of Nations reporting on negotiations towards a settlement, including notes, session minutes, and correspondence from the Czech representative to the League, Edvard Beneš, who acted as mediator between the two parties; the settlement of the dispute, culminating in a new agreement between the Persian Government and APOC, dated 29 April 1933 (ff 26-35).

The volume includes numerous items in French (Persian Government correspondence and some press cuttings from the Persian Press) and a single item in German (a transcript of an article originally appearing the Deutsche Bergwerks Zeitung ).

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1 volume (541 folios)
Arrangement

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

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 537; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

A number of pages have been bound into the volume upside down (ff 345-358).

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English, French and German in Latin script
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