'File 14/115 VII Annex (B 9) Abu Musa oxide: collected background material on the case' [‎20v] (51/1904)

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A nnex (12).
Note hy Khan Bahadur Abdul Latif with Hides
Partnership >'purporting to he dated 26th
on which HasanSamaiyeh bases Ms tit
(Dated 25th
The history of the paper purporting to be the Rules of Partnership is as
follows:—
The drawing up of the original draft was done by me, the reason being that the
oxide mining work had been in operation for nearly a year without any definite
plan of operations having been arrived at, I was anxious to put the work on a
more businesslike footing and therefore drew up some rules and sent them to
Hasan. The latter made certain additions and had five documents drawn up
including the additions and signed by himself, Abdullah and Nakhuda Ali, and he
forwarded them all to me for completion by the attachment of the signatures of
Shaikh Sagar and myself. When completed, I was to return three of them to him,
one for himself, one for Abdullah, and one for Nakhuda Ali. Of the remaining
two I was to give one to Shaikh Sagar and keep one myself. 1 dia not, however,
care about the extra condition which he had inserted and wrote back and said so.
There the matter ended. These deeds were never completed nor were any revised
documents drawn up. I never showed them to Shaikh Sagar and produce them
now in the state in which I received them. These rules never having become
operative Esa and I always considered and presumed that the document
on which the concern was carried on was that of Zilhijieh 1315, in which Isakhuda
Ali was admitted to partnership and in which it is laid down that the sale, loading
and shipping should be carried out with the knowledge of all the partners. By
reason of Hasan's neglect to consult us properly and his failure to render any
accounts, we became dissatisfied with his conduct of affairs.