File 2794/1921 Pt 8 'Persian Gulf: oil; Bahrain: Installation of radio-telephone by Bahrain Petroleum Company' [‎219v] (322/436)

o
O
SECOND SCHEDULE.
Privileges to be enjoyed by the Company under the Prospecting Licence.
I. Free access for their agents and servants necessarily employed by the latter
^ to all parts of the territory under the control of the Shaikh whether private or public
property, saving only sacred buildings, shrines, and graveyards.
II. The right to carry out in anv part of the said territory such works as may be
necessary for the purpose of prospecting. If this^work is carried out on uncultivated
land the Company shall not be bound to make any payment to the owner of the land,
but shall restore the land as far as possible to its previous state unless it is covered
by a mining lease subsequently granted. If it is carried out on cultivated land the
Company shall pay a rent for the land occupied.
All borings abandoned by the Company which have produced water in valuable
quantity shall be left intact with the casing in position, and shall be sealed with a
suitable valve.
III. Free use of water for their agents and servants.
IV. Free use of fuel lying on land the property of the Shaikh for the same.
V. The right to purchase fuel and food supplies of every kind for man and
beast, being the private property of the Shaikh’s subjects, at current market rates,
which rate in default of agreement between the parties shall be fixed by the Shaikh
or his agents, subject to the right of the Company to appeal to the British Political
Agent at Bahrein if they find it necessary.
VI. Free importation of all material, apparatus, and machinery, of every kind
necessary for the work carried out by the Company, including office requirements, but
not including the personal requirements of employees.
VII. All protection in the Shaikh’s power from theft, highway robbery, assault,
wilful damage, and destruction, but all guards required by the Company shall be
paid for by the Company.
VIII. An extension of the period of the licence if the Company are prevented by
causes beyond their control from carrying out the work of prospecting, the length of
such extension to be fixed by agreement between the parties or failing such agreement
by the Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
IX. -The fight to wm up te 100 teas ef eil free ef payuteth aaO AmheF quaut-hiea
ef eO e» payweftt ef tke feyahy pef tea provided ia the uFiaiag lease, hat ea eeaditiea
that the Geukpaay shall apply for a miatag lease ia respeet ef eaeh area ia wkieh work
is ppeeeediag as seea as a)ere thaa 100 teas ef eil are *vea Aefa eae siagle here hole
wathio it.
IX. The right to win up to 100 tons of oil free of payment and further quantities
of oil on payment of a royalty of Rs. 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).'"'
t IXa. For the purposes of such royalty payments the Company shall measure
bv a method customarily used in good oilfield practice all crude od won and saved
and the Shaikh by his Representative duly authorised by 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. shall have the right to examine such measuring and to examine and
test whatever appliances may be used for such measuring. Ji 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 aloiesaid
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 lor
three calendar mouths previous to the discovery thereof or from the last occasion of
examining the same in case such occasion shall be within such period oi 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 bhaikh
* Substituted for original Article IX under terms of Indenture of 15th February 1933 (reproduced as
111 t Aa'led tmder prOTisi<,n S of Indenture of 15th February 1933 (No. HI on page 8 below).