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File 1250/1917 ‘Turkey:– The Ottoman Public Debt. Salif Salt Quarries.’ [27r] (60/455)
The record is made up of 1 volume (221 folios). It was created in 26 Jan 1917-9 Jul 1929. 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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M MOHANDUM Qif A OKEluI^HT £ B IV i- JL3-E c Oivu^i^Ek CHAHL3S
SBIVARD JERW,m CBAUMJKD of 4 The Crescent Hayling Island
Hants England (hereinafter called n Comiiiander wranftird )
of the first part ALBERT COLLIUSQH HESEIELD of ihe Eopse
West Drayton in the County of Middlesex England (hereinafter
called "Mr. Hesfield") of the secondpart and STEEL BROTHERS
Aiiu CQMPaEY LIMITS (hereinafter called "The Company")
whose registered office is at 6 Eenehurch Avenue in the
City of London of the third part
WHEREAS Commander Craufurd has represented to the
Company that he hopjes to he in a position to obtain in
favour of the Company or to obtain in his favour and trans
fer to the Company a valid concession covering the right to
search for and obtain Salt from the Salif Mines and territory
adjacent thereto from the Imam of Yemen
MOW IT IS HEREBY ACREED as follows:-
THE Company agrees forthwith on the signing hereof
to pay to Commander Craufurd the sum of One thousand live
hundred pounds in cash and to open a credit* in nis favour
with the Rational Bank of India Limited at Aden for the
sum of Two thousand five hundred pounds in respect of
the expense of Commander Craufurd proceeding bo Yemen &.nd
negotiating for and obtaining the Concession hereinafter
mentioned
IN consideration of the said payment Commander Craufurd
undertakes forthwith to proceed to Yemen and uo -Ms
best efforts to secure free of any further expense to the
Company and at the earliest possible date from bne Imam
of Yemen a Valid Concession in the name of the Company or
in the name of the new Company hereinafter mentioned or in
the
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Correspondence and other papers relating to rock salt extraction at Salif [As Salif] in Yemen. The correspondence chiefly concerns various efforts on the part of British interests to agree a concession for the extraction of rock salt at Salif, a concession operated prior to the First World War by the Ottoman Public Debt Administration (also referred to in the volume by its French name, Administration de la Dette Publique Ottomane). The volume includes: correspondence from the British company Balmer Lawrie & Company, and Adam Samuel James Block, Representative for British Bondholders in Turkey, enquiring after the rock salt concession, 1917; the sale of Salif rock salt by the Government of India, and the investment of the proceeds in Exchequer Bonds, 1917; arrangements for the repayment of bonds back to the Ottoman Public Debt Administration, facilitated by the Imperial Ottoman Bank, 1920-24; papers and draft agreements relating to a new concession for the extraction of rock salt at Salif, negotiated between the British company Steel Brothers & Company Limited and the Imam of Yemen, and brokered by Commander Charles Edward Vereker Crauford, 1929.
The volume contains several items written in French.
The volume 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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- 1 volume (221 folios)
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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 inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 223; 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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