مجموعة ٣٠/ ١٣٩ "النفط: امتياز دبي التجاري وتبادل مذكرات." [ظ‎‎١‎٠] (٣٦٥/٢٠)

Annexure.
To His Excellency,
Shaikh Said Bin Maktum Al-Hashar,
Ruler of Dubai.
Your Excellency, Dubai, 22nd May 1937.
Greetings : I am authorised by my Company to inform Your Excellency that
should Your Excellency see fit to appoint a London Representative after discovery
of oil in commercial quantities such Representative will have access to the
management of the Company at any reasonable time for the purposes of making
representations which Your Excellency may wish him to make regarding the
working of the Concession Agreement that Your Excellency graciously granted to
this Company on 22nd May 1937 corresponding to 11th Rabi-Awwal 1356.
The Company s officials will be pleased to supply all information to such
Representative pertaining to oil production and the Company s operations generally
in Dubai at any reasonable time.
With expressions of deep respect and regard for the person of \our Excellency.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your Excellency’s obedient Servant,
FRANK HOLMES,
For and on behalf of
Petroleum Concessions, Limited.
No. 3
C!opy of letter from Captain Hickinbotham, Political Agent, Bahrain, dated the
22nd May 1937, No. T/l of 1937, to Shaikh Sa’id Bin Maktum, O.B.E.,
Ruler of Dubai.
After compliments,
His Majesty’s Government have been furnished with a copy of the Agreement
[No. 2] signed by you on the 22nd May 1937 granting to Petroleum Development
(Trucial Coast), Limited, which is a subsidiary Company of Petroleum Concessions
Limited, an oil concession in respect of your territory on the understanding that the
Agreement is subject to the approval of His Majesty’s Government.
2. Under instructions from His Majesty’s Government I now enclose a copy of
an Agreement (No. 1) which has been concluded between His Majesty’s Government
and Petroleum Concessions, Limited, in London on 5th February 1937.
3. It is desirable that there should be a clear understanding as to the position
which would arise in certain eventualities in connection with these two Agreements,
and I am to inform you that in these circumstances the understanding described
below has been reached with the Company:—
(a) Should any of the terms of the Agreement between you and the Company
be inconsistent or in conflict with the terms of the Agreement between the
Company and His Majesty’s Government signed in London on 5th February 1937
the Agreement between you and the Company will to the extent of any such
inconsistency or conflict be subordinate to and be controlled by the terms
of the Agreement between the Company and His Majesty’s Government.
(b) If the Company should fail to observe any of the terms of the Agreement
between the Company and His Majesty’s Government signed in London on
5th February 1937, or if the alleged failure having been disputed by the
Company the matter has been referred to arbitration under Article 24 of
the Company’s Agreement with you (which is made applicable to the case
by Article 11 of the Agreement between the Company and His Majesty’s
Government) and the Company should not remedy such failure within the
reasonable time which should be fixed by the arbitrators for so doing then
in these cases, as in the cases mentioned in Article 19 of the Company’s
Agreement with you, but in no other, the Company agrees that you will be
entitled to terminate the Agreement between the Company and yourself, and