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'File 38/17 Delimitation of Trucial state boundaries and Petroleum Concession Limited's Concession Areas on the Trucial Coast' [17r] (34/225)
The record is made up of 1 file (111 folios). It was created in 30 Apr 1947-23 Mar 1950. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Confidential
D.O. to the Resident
Draft
Please refer to your confidential
endorsement No.692-S dated the 31st March, 1948.
2• While I shall be glad to discuss
Burrow's letter with you, I feel that such an
important matter should not be the subject of
views in writing^!
3* As far as I am aware there is no active
dispute about the boundaries between Muscat and
Has al Khaimah or Muscat and Kalba. The limit
of Muscat's jurisdiction in the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
el Qaur was
described in the enclosure to my printed letter
No.C/163 dated the 5th February, 1948, and the
boundary between Muscat and Kalba is established
at Khatam Malahah.and is marked by a stone wall.
I enclose copies of two original documents now
in the possession of the present Shaikh of Sharjah,
with translations. You will observe that in
1268 Hijri (99 years ago) Sai'd bin Sultan of
Muscat renounced all intention fce interfere with
the tribes subject to Jawassim influence in the
area from Khatam Malahah westwards and northwards
to the Dhahirah. In 1288 Hijri Turki bin Sai'd
reiterated his father's undertakings to the
Jawassim, but made an exception of Khassab. The
Muscat claim to suzerainty over the Beni Ka'ab and
the Nai'm of Buraimi (including the Al Bu Shamis)
appears to be of more recent origin, because the
present Shaikh of Sharjah claims that in 1268 Hijri
the Jawassim were paramount over all the tribes of
Buraimi. Had Muscat at that time any suzerainty
ovei these tribes presumably it would have been
mentioned in these documents,as Khassab was.
oral discussion only and I am letting you have my
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This file contains correspondence regarding the delimitation of the boundaries of the Trucial states A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. with an emphasis on the boundary between Dubai and Abu Dhabi. On this topic, the file contains a detailed letter by Patrick Desmond Stobart, Political Officer on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. that includes an appendix that gives details of the territorial claims of Dubai and Abu Dhabi (folios 36-51).
The file contains three maps, two identical copies of a hand-drawn sketch map of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. (folios 6 and 9) and a hand-drawn sketch map of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. marking details of the Dubai-Abu Dhabi boundary dispute (folio 33).
The majority of the correspondence in the file is in English, but a limited amount in Arabic is also contained within, including a letter sent from the ruler of Dubai, Shaikh Saʻīd bin Maktūm bin Hasher Āl Maktūm to Cornelius James Pelly, the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Bahrain (folio 75).
The file also contains correspondence between British officials and Petroleum Development ( Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ) Limited, the subsidiary of Petroleum Concessions Limited that operated in the states along the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .
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- 1 file (111 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 111; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-102; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. A previous foliation sequence between ff 1-110, which is circled and located in the top centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Foliation errors: 97a
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- IOR/R/15/2/2015
- Title
- 'File 38/17 Delimitation of Trucial state boundaries and Petroleum Concession Limited's Concession Areas on the Trucial Coast'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:2v, 5r:5v, 8r:8v, 8v, 10r:13v, 15r:32v, 35r:54v, 56r:74v, 76r:83v, 85r:97v, 97ar:97av, 98r:110v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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