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File 2249/1915 Pt 3 ‘OIL – PERSIA & MESOPOTAMIA; ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL COMPANY'S AFFAIRS; Royalties paid to Persian Govt’ [257r] (29/174)
The record is made up of 1 item (86 folios). It was created in 18 Jun 1915-27 May 1920. It was written in English and French. 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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' Britannic House,
23,Great Winchester street, E.C.2.
July 3Gth 1919.
Your Excellency,
four j-etter of the 20th instant was placed before my
Board at this week's Meeting and I am requested to express
their extreme surprise at the suggestion that the Conpany
is unwilling to pay to your Government the Royalties now
xn arrear,since they and you are both well aware that we
are both willing and anxious to pay op these Royalties and
Wion this object in view have in fact had a special repre
sentative waiting in Teheran for more than 6 months en
deavouring to come to an arrangement with your Government
by failing to deal with the questions which are corollary
to ilie payment of the Royalties,are themselves alone
responsible for the delay in payment,
Xv has been suggested that we should pay up the
Royalties and ai.t.cw the other Questions to remain open for
settlement at some future time by arbitration or otherwise.
We iegret,however that we cannot agree to this course as
the counter claims which we have against your Government
viz:
(1) for the loss sustained by us in respect of the damage
done to our Pipelines by Persian tribesmen in contravention
of Article 14 of the Concession Agreement, and
(2) for the 3% Royalty which we have been compelled to pay
to the Bakhtiari Khans notwithstanding the guarantees given
in Articles 3 and 4 of the said Agreement,
His Excellency, - both ,
Farid-e s-Sultaneh,
St,James Club,
Piccadilly,W,l.
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The item contains correspondence and other papers relating to: the payment of royalties due to the Persian Government from the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), 1915; a dispute between the British and Persian Governments relating to British troops inside Persian territory, and damage inflicted to APOC oil pipelines close to the Mesopotamia [Iraq]-Persia [Iran] border, in the wake of the British invasion of Mesopotamia in 1914/1915; APOC’s withholding of oil royalties owed to the Persian Government, in compensation for damage inflicted to its pipelines in Persia; and negotiations between APOC and the Persian Government over the terms of a new agreement for royalty payments, 1919.
The item’s principal correspondents are: APOC; the Persian Government; HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. in Tehran, Charles Murray Marling. One note from the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs is written in French (f 329).
The item includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 257r:257v
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- Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited (xx Anglo-Persian)
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