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File 2794/1921 Pt 6 'Persian Gulf: Oil: Bahrain' [267r] (534/794)
The record is made up of 1 file (395 folios). It was created in Nov 1934-Jun 1936. 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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9
a
immediately before and so as to qualify the sentence beginning with the words “ they
shall not be liable to pay any further sums.”
1 he following shall be substituted for the existing Article IX of the Second
Schedule to the said Agreement that is to say:—
IX. I he right to win up to one hundred tons of oil free of payment and
further quantities of oil on payment of a royalty of Us. 3 . 8 . 0 per ton of net
crude oil got and saved (i.e. after deducting water and foreign substances and
oil required for the customary operations of the Company’s installations in the
Shaikh’s Territories).”
3. There shall be inserted in Schedule 2 of the said Agreement immediately after
Article IX two new Articles as follows :—
“ IXa. For the purposes of such royalty payments the Company shall measure
by a method customarily used in good oilfield practice all crude oil won and
saved and the Shaikh by his Representative duly authorised by the Political
Resident in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
shall have the right to examine such measuring
and to examine and test whatever appliances may be used for such measuring.
If upon such examination or testing any such appliance shall be found to be out
of order the Shaikh may require that the same be put in order by and at the
expense of the Company and if such requisition be not complied with in a
reasonable time the Shaikh may cause the said appliance to be put in order and
may recover the expense of so doing from the Company and if upon any such
examination as aforesaid any error shall be discovered in any such appliance
such error shall if the Shaikh so decide after hearing the Company’s explanation
be considered to have existed for three calendar months previous to the discovery
thereof or from the last occasion of examining the same in case such occasion
shall be within such period of three calendar months and the royalty shall be
adjusted accordingly. If the Company desire to alter any measuring appliance
it shall give reasonable notice to the Shaikh or his representative to enable a
representative of the Shaikh to be present during such alteration.”
“ IXb. The Company shall keep full and correct accounts of all crude oil
measured as aforesaid and the said representative of the Shaikh shall have access
at all reasonable times to the books of the Company containing such accounts
and shall be at liberty to make extracts therefrom and the Company shall at its
own expense within three calendar months after the end of each calendar year
deliver to the Shaikh an abstract of such accounts for such year and a statement
of the amount of royalty due to the Shaikh for such year. Such accounts shall
be treated as confidential by the Shaikh with the exception of such figures
therein as he may be required by law to publish.”
Dated 15th February 1933.
(Seal of Shaikh of Bahrain.)
Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited.
By (Signed) Frank Holmes,
Its Attorney-in-Fact.
Before me,
(Signed) G. Loch,
(Seal of 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.)
PZ. 6821/33.
IY.—Resignation of Major Holmes.
(English Text only.)
No. C/446-10/1 (IV).
Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
, Bahrein,
(After Compliments.) 24th September 1933.
His Majesty’s Government have been informed that on the 14th September 1933
(24th Jamad-i-Awwal 1352) Major Holmes resigned his appointment as Chief Local
Representative of the Bahrain Petroleum Company, Limited.
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The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the precise terms of the oil concession in Bahrain and in particular issues regarding the translation of the lease from English to Arabic. Also included are some article cuttings (ff 51-62) from petroleum industry newspapers.
Included in the file is a copy (ff 226-241) of the Arabic translation of the Bahrain Mining Lease and a note from the Assistant Librarian (Arthur J Arberry), 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. , on the Arabic translation of the Bahrein Mining Lease and the English version (ff 242-244). The final lease with agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. seal and supporting diagram is to be found on folios 365-392.
The discussion in the file relates to the wording and legal interpretation of the Bahrain Mining lease. The principal correspondents in the file are: 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; 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. ; the Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office; the Petroleum Department (Frank Gregory Starling); the solicitor for the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (Hamilton R Ballantyne); the Ruler of Bahrain (Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah); the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave).
The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 395; 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 between ff 106-392; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. A previous foliation sequence between ff 2-105, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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