File 537/1921 Part 2 'Persia: Oil - A.P.O. Co's development of new oil-fields; Oil Boring at Dasht-i-Qil; A.P.O. Co's agreement with Kashkuli Khans' [‎290v] (252/254)

themselves the Company would not wish to compete with them and would
welcome any measures calculated to bring population to .the. fields and
nrosperity to the tribes, e.g., by encouraging the tribes to bring in charcoal,
etc, for sale : the Company would further give facilities so far as possible for
the’ despatch of tribal goods to outside markets via, Genawah by native
merchants.
10. It was explained to the Khans in reply to these enquiries that should
minerals other than those enumerated in the agreement be found, their exploita
tion would be a matter for separate arrangement, and that in the case of
sulphur, etc., the Company only claimed the right under the agreement
to mine what was actually needed for the operation of the Company in
Persia.
11 . Lieutenant Amrullah Khan Kashkuli, late of the South Persia Kifles,
2nd Cavalry, was given a letter of appointment as head of the guards at Dasht-
i-Qil in which his pay and that of his men was laid down and the Khans made
no objection to his being given this appointment.
12. After the meeting Abul Path Khan referred to the deduction from
Hadi Khan’s share and from his own on account of Hasan Quli Beg and
Hamza Beg saying that Hasan Quli Beg in particular was capable of giving
the Company considerable assistance and that theoretically both Hasan Quli
Be°* and Hamza Beg were entitled to more than they had been allotted.
Abul Path Khan’s object in making this representation was that the Company
should relieve him (and Hadi Khan) of their financial obligation in regard
to these two men. His Majesty’s Consul, Shiraz, said that the agreement
could not now be altered but that if the Company should find Hasan Quli Beg
could and did do useful work and if he remained at their request in the
vicinity of the fields during the summer as Abul Path Khan suggested, they
would consider the possibility of giving him some remuneration.
13. Abul Path Khan endeavoured to obtain a cash present for Mirza
Parajullah his confidential clerk who was not in fact present. It was suggested
to him that he should revert to the question when the Resident Director visited
Dasht-i-Qil.
14. After dinner just before the Resident Director left Chihil Chasmah for
Dashtarjin the Khans succeeded in obtaining from the Resident Director,
with the concurrence of His Majesty’s Consul, Shiraz, three months , advance of
subsidy.
These were made by draft on the Imperial Bank of Persia, Shiraz, as
follows:—
\ '
Krans.
Abul Fath Khan Kashkuli , .
4,165
Hadi » ...
4,165
Fafchullah „
.7 • . .
4,165
Ilyas
4,165
Ghulam Husain Khan Kashkuli
5,000
Muhammad Quli Khan Kashkuli
• • • 5,000
Kalantar of Fathullah Khan Kashkuli •
1,250
Total . 27,910
Chihil Chasmah;
The 14th October 1921,
H. G. CHICK.
A. T. WILSON.