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'File 22/16 I (A 41) GWADUR, Oil, Proposed Cession and Ownership' [71r] (148/322)
The record is made up of 1 volume (159 folios). It was created in 22 May 1913-8 Aug 1928. It was written in English. 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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No. 7552—7581—121.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT
I
GEOLOGY AND MINERALS.
Simla, 15th September /p/j.
RESOLUTION.
In supersession of the rules published with Resolution Nos. 18—17—2, dated
the 20th May 1899, the Governor-General in Council is pleased to prescribe the
following rules for regulating the grant by Local Governments of licenses to pros
pect for minerals and the grant of mining leases in British India :—
Rules for the grant by Local Governments of Licenses to prospect for Minerals
and of Mining Leases in British India.
The following rules regulating the grant by Local Governments of licenses
to prospect for minerals and the grant of leases of mines and minerals have been
made by the Governor-General in Council, and sanctioned by the Secretary of
State for India in Council.
Part I. —General.
1. No license to prospect for minerals or lease of mines and minerals can
be granted by any Local Government otherwise than in accordance with these
rules, except with the previous sanction of the Secretary of State for India in
Council, or with that of the Governor-General in Council under any general or
special authority which he may have received in this behalf from the Secretary
of State in Council.
2. In these rules :—
Collector" means the Revenue Officer in charge of the district ;
" Local Government " includes a Chief Commissioner; and
"Person" includes, besides individuals, a public company registered in
India or in the United Kingdom, having a duly empowered agent
resident in India, or a syndicate, partnership or private firm of
which one or more of the members reside in India, or which has
a duly authorised agent resident in India.
3. A license or lease under these rules may be granted to any person ; in
case of the death of the person or any of the persons to whom it is granted, it
shall inure for the benefit of his legal representatives.
4. For the purposes of these rules the Local Government may, in Provinces
where there is a Board of Revenue or Financial Co.nmissioner, delegate to
such authority all or any of the powers conferred on Local Government by
these rules.
5. Nothing in these rules shall apply to minor minerals such as slate, build
ing stone, limestone and clay, the extraction of which will continue to be
regulated by such separate rules as the Local Government may lay down in
accordance with local circumstances and requirements.
320CID
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The file relates to proposals to prospect for oil at Gwadar (mainly referred to in the papers as 'Gwadur'), and discussions over the ownership and proposed cession of the area, which was in the territory of the Sultan of Muscat.
The file includes the following papers:
- correspondence concerning demarcation of the boundary between Gwadar and Kalat, 1913-1915
- papers relating to the Sultan of Muscat's sovereignty over Gwadar and the claims of the Khan of Kalat to Gwadar, 1913-1928, including correspondence between Lieutenant Colonel R A E Benn, 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 Muscat, Major Stuart George Knox, Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Bushire, and D de S Bray, Quetta, dated April-June 1914, discussing the possible cession of Gwadar by the Sultan of Muscat and noting possible objections on the part of the French; trade statistics for Gwadar and Muscat for a period of three years, June 1914; letter from R E L Wingate, 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. , Muscat, to Lieutenant Colonel A P Trevor, Deputy Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , Bushire setting out reasons for a possible cession of Gwadar by the Sultan of Muscat, 27 April 1920; papers discussing the history and relative strength of the claims to Gwadar by the Sultan of Muscat on the one hand, and the Khan of Kalat and the Gitchkis on the other, 1926-1928
- proposals by the Burmah Oil Company Limited to prospect for oil in Gwadar, 1914, including a map of territories (scale one inch = four miles) over which a prospecting licence was required by the company (folio 33), with description (folio 34)
- statistics of trade for the years 1910-1913 relating to Chahbar, 1914
- rules for the grant of mineral leases, 1914
- details of trade statistics relating to Gwadar, 1914
- report on oil on the Makran coast by Lieutenant Colonel Keyes, 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. , Kalat, 28 January 1928.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (159 folios)
- Arrangement
Contains an index of six topics at the front of the volume.
Arranged chronologically from the front to the rear of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation system in use is the sequence of numbers appearing in a circle in the top right-hand corner of each folio. An original foliation sequence (not circled) links the folio numbers in the index at the front of the volume.
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- 'File 22/16 I (A 41) GWADUR, Oil, Proposed Cession and Ownership'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1br:1bv, 2r:30v, 35r:64v, 66r:76v, 78r:79v, 80ar:80bv, 81r:83v, 86r:96v, 97ar:97bv, 98r:155v, back-i
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