"ملف 82/27 VIII F 91 نفط قطر" [و‎‎١‎٩‎٩] (٤٦٨/٤١٠)

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this
AGREEMENT
dated th\ ^ * day
.. . , - • ■ of February One thousand
nine hundred and thirty seven is made BETWEEN HIS MAJESTY'S
GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (hereinafter called "His Majesty's
Government") of the one part and PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT (QATAR) LIMITED
(hereinafter called the "transferee company" which expression shall -where
the context so admits be deemed to include its successors and/or assignees)
of the other part
WHEREAS an oil concession was granted by the Shaikh of Qatar to
the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited under an agreement in writing dated
the Seventeenth day of May One thousand nine hundred and thirty five
AND WHEREAS the said Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited in relation
thereto upon the Fifth day of June One thousand nine hundred and thirty
five entered into an agreement in writing with His Majesty's Government
AND WHEREAS by special resolution dated the Twenty eighth day of June
One thousand nine hundred and thirty five the said Anglo-Persian Oil Company
Limited changed its name to the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited
AND WHEREAS it is proposed with the prior consent of His Majesty's
Government that the said oil concession should be transferred by the said
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company to the transferee company
AND WHEREAS under the said agreement of the Fifth day of June One
thousand nine hundred and thirty five such transfer shall not be made
without the prior consent in writing of His Majesty's Government
AND WHEREAS His Majesty's Government has so consented in considera
tion that the transferee company will from the date of such transfer carry
out the terms of the said agreement of the Fifth day of June One thousand nine
hundred and thirty five and otherwise upon the terms hereunder set forth
NOW THEREFORE with effect from the dat^ of such transfer IT IS HEREBY
AGREED as follows:-
THE Transferee Company shall be and remain a British Company registered
in Great Britain and shall have its principal place of business in Great
Britain and its Chairman shall at all times be a British subject.
THE terms of the above recited agreement dated the Fifth day of June
One thousand nine hundred and thirty five including the Schedule thereto
shall be binding between His Majesty's Government and the transferee company
as if the said agreement were expressed to be .made between His Majesty's
Government and the transferee company.
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THE arrangements embodied in the letter dated the Fifth day of June One
thousand nine hundred and thirty five from the Political Resident in the
Persian Gulf to the Shaikh of Qatar shall bind the transferee company and
the said letter shall be read as if in the place of "the Company" the
transferee company were mentioned
IN WITNESS whereof John Charles Walton C.B.
on behalf of His Majesty's Government has hereunto set his hand and seal
and the Company has hereunto caused its Common Seal to be affixed the day
and year first above written
I SEALED AND DELIVERED by)
said John Charles )
I on behalf of )
Ijesty's Government in )
ftsence of:- )
ft. S. PAINTER
India Office.
COMMON SEAL of Petroleum )
Jopment (Qatar) Limited )
ireunto affixed in the )
ice of:- )
J. C. WALTON
(L.S.)
JOHN CADMAN
Eo J. BROWN
Director
Secretary.
(SEAL)
BUSH^RF- RESIDENCY. ?
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