مراسلات بشأن الامتيازات في البحرين والكويت وغيرها بين ١٩٣٢-يوليو ١٩٣٣ (مطبوع سري رقم ٤٩ للمكتب الاستعماري في الشرق الأوسط) [ظ‎‎٧‎٧] (٢٨٤/١٥٦)

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first five years after the assignee company starts to operate m Kuwait or.for such
lesser period as the assignee company may operate in that territory, their Chier
Local Representative shall be Major Frank Holmes, provided the arrangement
between The Company and Major Frank Holmes continues to be mutually satis
factory to them during such five years, or such lesser period above mentioned,
provided also that any sooner determination of the appointment of Major Frank
Holmes shall be subject to the consent of His British Majesty's Government, which
shall not be unreasonably withheld. It is understood that a reasonable time shall
be allowed for the replacement of the Chief Local Representative in the e\ ent of
this post falling vacant.
(d) That as many of the employees of the assignee company in Kuwait as is
consistent with the efficient carrying on of the undertaking shall at all times be
British subjects or subjects of the Shaikh of Kuwait .
And if by any other ways or means the Concession is transferred or sold to
a Third Party, this Concession will then become null and void, and The Company
shall leave all the immovable property and wells intact and they will be the property
of the Shaikh.
(9) The Company's representatives in Kuwait territory shall be immune from local
interference except with the leave of The Company and (in matters concerning them
selves but not where the subjects of The Shaikh are concerned) shall be responsible for
their conduct to The Company's Board of Directors.
(10) If after commencing its operations in the Conceded Territory, The Company
for any reason other than the Act of God, or war, fire, flood, or lightning or some other
thing beyond human control, should discontinue the same for a continuous period of
two calendar years (2 years) The Shaikh shall have the right to cancel the Agreement
and no responsibility shall attach 10 either party.
(11) The Company or its employees shall not interfere in any manner or way with
the politics of The Shaikh's dominions or with his subjects.
(12) The Company shall employ only native labour {i .e., countrymen) under the
supervision of The Company's European or other appointed officials and The Shaikh
agrees to assist with the help of his Amirs and other local Agents to procure and provide
The Company such native labour as The Company may require, and The Company on
its part undertakes to make the fullest use of the local unskilled labour, in its judgment
capable of performing the work, to the extent of the suitable supply for its require
ment ; but The Company has the right to import unskilled labour should the local supply
prove insufficient or unsuitable to the extent of its requirements and The Company has
the right at all times to import skilled workmen of every kind—all subject to para
graph (d) of Article 8 above.
(13) The Company shall pay to the native workmen it employs a fair wage, such
wage to be decided and stated by The Company's representative at the time the workman
is engaged. The Company shall provide where possible medical attention and medicines
free of charge, to its native workmen during the time they are in the employ of The
Company.
(14) The Shaikh shall always afford the officials and employees of The Company
every facility, assistance, and protection in carrying out their plans and projects as far
as lies in his power, and shall allow them to excavate, dig, quarry, or drill the soil in
the Conceded Territory (saving only sacred buildings, shrines, graveyards, and the
area within the present existing town wall of Kuwait, wherever they shall have reason
able prospects of discovering and winning petroleum or kindred products, and The
Company by its officials shall be at liberty to abandon any excavation, pit, or well
wherever and whenever they shall deem' it expedient to ^do, provided always that
nothing in this Article shall be presumed to give The Company or its Assigns or Agents
right of entry into, or on, to private properties without prior sanction of The Shaikh
or his duly appointed representative.
(15) Within sixty days (60 days) from the signature of this Agreement, The Com
pany in consideration of The Shaikh's granting this Concession'and the assistance to
be afforded to their employees, shall pay to The Shaikh the sum of Rupees Thirty
Thousand (Rs. o0,000) . But if the payment of this sum of Rupees Thirty Thousand
(Rs. 30,000) is not made by The Company within 60 days specified, then this Aareement
will become null and void.
And after fjist payment of Rupees Thirty Thousand (Rs. 30,000) as specified
abo\e in this Article on each anniversary of the date of the signature of this Agreement,
The Company shall pay to The Shaikh the sum of Rupees Twenty Thousand
(