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'File 10/1 X Bahrain Oil Concession' [135r] (284/578)
The record is made up of 1 volume (287 folios). It was created in 26 Oct 1934-23 Dec 1934. It was written in English 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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Palace at Sakhir with its mosque, outbuildings
and fenced-in garden as well as hunting boxes
at Amr, Rumaitha, and Om-at-tala which consist
of groups of small buildings. Title deeds do
not exist fbr these properties.
4. His Excellency also claims the owner
ship of a strip of ground approximately half
mile wide and three miles in length along the
main road from Sakhir to Amr which he uses for
exercising his horses. Ho title deed exists.
5. The water ?/ell of the Bahrain Petro
leum Company north of Zellaq and a portion of
the pipe conveying the water to the Bahrain
Petroleum Company Camp is inside the area des
cribed in my paragraph E. The well and pipe
line were installed with the knowledge of His
Excellency Shaikh Hamad who did not raise any
objection to its being built.
6. In July 1931, the Company applied
to the Bahrain Government for a plot of land
measuring 15 - 20 acres east of Zellaq around
their first water well, (which was afterwards
abandoned). The Bahrain Government granted
to the Company ten acres of this site.
7. The Company in the following year
drilled a second water well closer to the sea.
In June 1932, the Company requested the grant
of 18.4 acres adjacent to the second well,
extending from the well to the sea. This
ground was to be used for a garden and a re
creation ground.
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The volume contains minutes of meetings at Office of the Secretary of State for India in London; and correspondence and telegrams 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. in Bahrain, 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. in Bushire, the Financial Adviser to the Government in Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, and representatives of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) on the draft Mining Lease contract between the Sheikh of Bahrain, Hamad Bin Issa Al-Khalifah, and BAPCO.
The volume also includes: letter enclosing copy of the Power of Attorney given by BAPCO to Mr. F.A. Davies and other American citizens, to execute the Mining Lease in Bahrain on behalf of the Company (folios 146-152); 'Plan Showing Open Land Near Zallāk, Bahrain' (folio 136E) and a sketch in pencil representing 'Sakhir' (folio 246B and photocopy on folio 246C).
There are documents in Arabic, including a translation of the draft Lease (folios 227A-S).
There is an index and some notes at the end of the volume (folios 233-250).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (287 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are arranged in chronological order. There is an index at the end of the volume (folios 233-250). The index is arranged chronologically and refers to documents within the volume; it gives brief description of the correspondence with a reference number, which refers back to that correspondence in the volume.
- Physical characteristics
The foliation is in pencil, encircled, in the top right corner of recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. . The numbering starts on the first page of writing (5th folio) of the volume and carries on until 135; then 136, 136A-E; 137-226; 227, 227A-S; 228-245; 246, 246A-C and then carries on until 250, which is the last number given on the last page of writing. Folio 136E is kept in an envelope on folio 136D; folios 227B-227S are kept in an envelope on folio 227A. Folios 246B-C are kept in an envelope on folio 246A. An additional foliation sequence, since crossed out, starts with 93 (on folio 97).
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- IOR/R/15/2/397
- Title
- 'File 10/1 X Bahrain Oil Concession'
- Pages
- 134r:136r, 176r, 184r:185r
- Author
- Belgrave, Sir Charles Dalrymple
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