"ضمانات، وتعهدات، واتفاقيات، وغيرها. عُقدت بين بعض زعماء وخانات [حكام] جنوب بلاد فارس مع الحكومة البريطانية وبعض شركات التجارة البريطانية" [‎٣‎٣] (١٠٤/٤٣)

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF D'AECY OIL CONCESSION.
The following has by these presents been agreed on and arranged, viz. *—
Article 1. -The Government of His Imperial Majesty the Shah grants to the
Concessionnaire by these presents a special and exclusive privilege to search
for, obtain, exploit, develop, render suitable for trade, carry away and sell natural gas,
petroleum, asphalte and ozokerite throusrhout the whole extent of the Persian
Empire for a term of 60 years as from the date of these presents.
Article -This privilege shall comprise the exclusive right of laying the pipe
lines necessary from the deposits where they may be found one or several of the
said products up to the Persian Gulf as also the necessary distributing branches.
It shall also comprise the right of constructing and maintaining all and any
wells, reservoirs, stations and pump services, accumulation services and distribution
services, workshops and other works of arrangement that may be necessary.
Article 3. —The Imperial Persian Government grants gratuitously to the
Concessionnaire all uncultivated lands belonging to the State which the Con-
cessionnaire's engineers may deem necessary for the construction of the whole or
any part of the above-mentioned works. As for cultivated lands belonging to the
State, the Concessionnaire must purchase them at the fair and current price of
the province.
The Government also grants to the Concessionnaire the right of acquiring all
and any other lands or building necessary for the said purpose with the consent
of the proprietors on such conditions as may be arranged between him and them
without their being allowed to make demands of a nature to surcharge the prices
ordinarily current for lands situated in their respective localities. Holy places
with all their dependencies within a radius of 200 Persian archives are formally
excluded.
Article 4. —As three petroleum mines situate at Schouster Kassre-Chirine in
the province of Kermanshah and Daleki near Bouchir are at present let to private
persons and produce an annual revenue of two thousand tomans for the benefit of
the Government it has been agreed that the three aforesaid mines shall be com -
prised in the Deed of Concession in conformity with Article 1 on condition
that over and above the 16 per »cent. mentioned in Article 10 the Con
cessionnaire shall pay every year the fixed sum of 2,000 (two thousand) tomans to
the Imperial Government.
Article 5. —The course of the pipe-lines shall be fixed by the Concessionnaire
and his engineers.
Article 6. —Notwithstanding what is above set forth the privilege granted by
the^e presents shall not extend to the Provinces of Azerbaijan, Gilan,
Mazandaran, Astrabad and Khorassan but on the express condition that the Persian
Imperial Government shall not grant to any other person the right of constructing
a pipe-line to the southern rivers or on the south coast of Persia.
Article 7. —All lands granted by these presents to the Concessionnaire or that
may be acquired by him in the manner provided for in Articles 3 and 4 of these
presents as also all products exported shall be free of all imposts and taxes during
the term of the present concession. All material and apparatuses necessary for the
exploration working and development of the deposit and for the construction and
development of the pipe-lines shall enter Persia free of all taxes and Custom House
duties.
Article 8. —The Concessionnaire shall immediately send out to Persia and at his
own cost one or several experts with a view to their exploring the region in which
there exist as he believes the said products and in the event of the report of the
expert being in the opinion of the Concessionnaire of a satisfactory nature the
latter shall immediately send to Persia and at his own cost all the technical staff
necessary with the working plant and machinery required for boring and sinking
wells and ascertaining the value of the property.