مجموعة ٢٥/ ١٨ "مراسيم ملكية بريطانية: قطر: السلطة القضائية على الأجانب في قطر" [و‎‎٢‎٦‎٧] (٦٣٥/٥٣٣)

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Draft Paper.
POLITICAL
Department.
DRAFT I
The Foreign Secretary to the
Government of India,
Foreign and Political Dept.,
New Delhi.
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2 9 K'J1955
Sir,
I am directed hy the Secretary of
State for India to refer to Bushire
Express Letter No.C/137 of 12th May 1935*
and connected correspondence on the
subject of the Qatar Oil Concession. In
view of the grant of an oil concession
hy the Sheikh of iiovroi^ to the Anglo-
Iranian Oil Company, and the delegation
hy the Sheikh to His Majesty T s
Government of jurisdiction over British
subjects and protected persons and
subjects of non-Nuslim foreign powers,
the Marquess of Zetland, after
consultation with the Foreign Office,
is of the opinion that the position
should now be regularised as soon as
possible by the issue of an Order in
Council under the Foreign Jurisdiction
Act#, defining the extent of His Majesty T s
jurisdiction in Qatar. His Lordship
would therefore suggest that if no
objection is seen, a draft Qatar Order in
Council should now be prepared by the
Government of India, in consultation
with the Political Resident in the
Persian Gulf, and forwarded to the et-
Offircc for final consideration by His
Majesty*s Government. The new Order in
Council would be on the same lines
mutatis mutandis as the Koweit Order in
Council/
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