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'(F 69) File 82/26 A.P.O.C. - Muscat Oil Concession' [48r] (123/163)
The record is made up of 1 file (77 folios). It was created in 11 Sep 1925-20 May 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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Hamidia Mansion,
Motlibai Street, Byculla
Bombay, 4th Pecember 1925 #
From
Mohamed bin Kasir 4l Hamud,
Amir of Jalan,
To
The foreign Secretary,
Government Political Department,
Government of India,
Delhi.
Sir,
I have the honour to draw your attention to my letter
to you of the 8th November last. I have not as yet received
any reply to my said letter, nor even an acknowledgment of
the same, which I take is due to oversight. I shall feel
obliged by your now acknov/1 edging the receipt of my this letter.
r lhe object of again drawing your attention to my letter
of the 8th November last is that I have come to know that
certain British ibgineers have already reached. Muscat with the
object of proceeding into my territory, for object of which I
am not informed, but which 1 take it to be to explore oil
fields in my territory. In order that my state nay not come
into any unforeseen trouble by reason of any injury to these
Engineers by nEtny wild tribes of my State, I respectfully draw
the attention of the British Government to immediately take
steps to notify to these Engineers, that if they go into my
state, they will do so at their personal own risk and responsi
bility and that in the event of any mishap or injury occuring
to them they will not look to my state for the consequences
thereof.
If the British Government or Indian Government desires
to open communication regarding the Oil Fields or other mineral |
resources of my state, I shall be pleased to furnish you with
i
any information that may be required & jio that is within my |
power
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The volume contains correspondence, telegrams and notes of meetings between 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. at Muscat and the 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. at Bahrain and Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives regarding geologic surveys of Dhofar, Massirah and Batinah, Muskat, in Oman, and Gwadar, in Pakistan, carried on by geologists employed by D'Arcy Exploration Company. The volume contains an extract from the account of the expedition to Muscat (folios 44-45) and some letters to and from the Amīr of Ja‘lān, Muḥammad bin Nāṣir Āl Ḥamūdah.
There are some maps within the file:
- Reduction to show Relationships of the Combined Plane Table and Prismatic Compass Sketch Map of the Country between JEBEL RODHAH, SOHAR AND IBRI, OMAN, ARABIA, with the Oman peninsula (f. 18A);
- Sketch map of the Omani and Emirati coast from Muscat northbound (f. 18B);
- Map extracted from Geographical Journal Sep. 1925' showing Oman and Trucial States A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. (f. 18C);
- 'Map showing coast and ports of Oman' (f. 36A), drawn by Mr Bower.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (77 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order.
- Physical characteristics
The foliation is written in pencil and can be found 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.
The numbering commences at the first folio with 1, 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D; 2-3; 4 and 4A; 5-7; 8 and 8A; 9-17; 18, 18A, 18B and 18C; 19-36; 37 and 37A; 38-60; 61 and 61A and then it carries on until 66, which is the last number given to the last folio.
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- IOR/R/15/1/625
- Title
- '(F 69) File 82/26 A.P.O.C. - Muscat Oil Concession'
- Pages
- 39r, 48r:48v
- Author
- Al Hamudah, Shaikh Muhammad bin Nasir
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