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'File 73/7 II (D 22) Status of Koweit [Kuwait] - Baghdad railway, Anglo Turkish negotiations' [115v] (236/540)
The record is made up of 1 volume (268 folios). It was created in 24 Oct 1911-26 Dec 1912. It was written in English, French 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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10. Any sums which it may become necessary for the -Commission to
borrow for the purpose of carrying out the duties imposed upon it shall be ad
vanced by the high contracting parties at a rate of interest not exceeding 5
per cent, per annum, in such proportions and upon such terms as to repayment
as they may arrange.
11. The control of all funds raised and expended by the Commission shall be
vested exclusively in the Commission.
12. The Commission shall publish annually complete and accurate accounts^
showing the amounts received and expended by it.
13. If the receipts of the Commission are insufficient to cover its expenditure
the deficit shall be made good by the Imperial Ottoman Government.
14. In the event of the members of the Commission being unable to agree
as to whether any particular works are or are not necessary for the improve
ment of the Shatt-el-Arab, or as to the way in which particular works should
be carried out, the question shall be referred by them to an engineer of reputej
to be agreed upon by the commissioners, or, failing agreement, to be nominated
by the president of the Institute of Civil Engineers in London, and the decision
of such engineer shall be adopted by the Commission.
15. The Commission shall correspond upon all matters connected with the
duties entrusted to it with the Ministry of Public Works at Constantinople direct,
and not through the local authorities.
16. The local authorities shall not interfere in any way with the houses,
buildings, land, oi other property of the Commission, or with its funds, or with the
discharge of jfcheir duties by the officers of by the police, pilotage, or other services
maintained by the Commission, or with wharfs, jetties, docks, or quays in or on
the banks of the river belonging to private persons.
17. The transfer to the Commission of any buoys or lights in the approach
es to the Shatt-el-Arab shall not be deemed to affect/ the territorial juris
diction in the waters where such buoys or lights are placed, or be made a ground
on the part of the^ Imperial Ottoman Government for claiming that such waters
are within its territorial jurisdiction.
18. The Imperial Ottoman Government will offer no objection to the contin
uance of the custom whereby the war-ships of His Britannic Majesty freely
ascend the Shatt-el-Arab as far as Kurna.
19 This agreement is made for a period of twenty years ; after the expira
tion of that period it shall be open to either of the high contracting parties to
determine the agreement by a year's notice.
. ^ 1 (( nforma % to the Army Department for transmission to the Divi
sion of the Chief of the Staff.)
{Received on 17th June 1912, with Political Secretary's letter No 22 dated the 31st
May 1912.)
[A.]
ASIATIC TURKEY AND ARABIA. [May 16.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
[16000] No. 1.
F
(Confidential.)
am directed by Secretary
;her a comnittee, composed
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The volume contains letters, telegrams, and memorandums pertaining to Anglo-Turkish negotiations brought on by the Baghdad Railway and particularly the extension to Basra. Correspondents include: Percy Cox, 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 Bushire, William Shakespear, 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 Kuwait, Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Louis Mallet, Assistant Under-secretary of State for Near and Middle Eastern Affairs, Charles Marling, British Ambassador to Persia, Gerard Lowther, British Ambassador to Constantinople, George Buchanan, British Ambassador to Russia, Admiral Edmond Slade, the Board of Trade, the Government of India, the 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. , and several private companies, including Trans-Atlantic Trust Company, Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Imperial Ottoman Bank, and Imperial Persian Bank.
The form of the negotiations was a series of memorandums containing proposals and counter-proposals. The issues and subjects discussed are:
- ownership and control of the line;
- custom duty increases in the region;
- navigation of the Shatt al-Arab, including the establishment of a commission to oversee this;
- transport of railway materials by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers;
- delimitation of the Turkish-Persian border;
- status and territorial limit of Kuwait;
- other Gulf matters, including the statuses of Bahrain and Qatar, the suppression of arms traffic, piracy, and slavery, and the protection of pearl fisheries.
Folios 261-262 are a map showing the proposed territorial limits of Kuwait.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (268 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged chronologically. At the beginning (ff. 3-4) is a subject index, in no particular order but grouped under several broad headings. The numbers refer to folio numbers from the secondary, earlier sequence.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The volume is foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover, using circled pencil numbers positioned in the top-right corner of each recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. . There are two earlier foliation systems running through parts of the volume. The first uses uncircled pencil numbers in the top-right corner of recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. pages, and the top-left corner of verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. pages. This foliation system numbers pages if they have content on them, which is the case for all rectos and some versos. This foliation system appears intermittently through most of the volume. The other foliation system uses circled blue pencil numbers in the top-right corner of recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. pages, and appears from folios 5 to 42. Numerous printed materials contained in the volume have their own internal pagination systems. The following foliation irregularities occur: 1a, 34a, 51B, 219B, 250B.
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- Title
- 'File 73/7 II (D 22) Status of Koweit [Kuwait] - Baghdad railway, Anglo Turkish negotiations'
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- front, front-i, 1ar:1av, 2r:5v, 16r:22v, 24r:34v, 34ar:34av, 35r:42v, 44r:49v, 51r:51v, 51br:51bv, 52r:54v, 56r:63v, 66r:67v, 72r:112r, 113r:134v, 136r:168v, 170r:182v, 184r:204r, 205v:213v, 215v, 219br:219bv, 222r:225v, 227r:236v, 238r:250v, 250br:250bv, 251r:261v, 262v:264v, back-i, back
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