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'File 36/3 Lease of Bander Shweikh' [181r] (361/556)
The record is made up of 1 file (277 folios). It was created in 26 Apr 1905-24 Aug 1923. 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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Secret.
From
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.
, Koweit.
To First Assistant in charge current duties, Bushire.
Demi official dated 14th August 1907.
Turn that Bunder Shweikh negotiations are taking is better than
I expected. Sheikh Mubarek has taken the pearl out of the oyster
for himself by reserving the coal house recently erected with
surrounding compound 150 yards square, coal house occupying the
centre of the North west or seaside. Apart from thfct reservation
he grants us rectangular plot of ground 3750 yards X 300 yards
at a perpetual rent of If 60,000 per annum paid in advance. The
North west boundary 3750 yards long in a direct line and roughly
parallel to foreshore but must contain coal house or compound.
Subject to these two conditions, position is at our option.
Rent gives right without further demand to all foreshore to depth
of 3 fathoms at lowest spring tide between N.E. and S.W. bound
aries produced to N.W. except immediately in front of Mobarek^
reservation^ and full liberty to erect buildings of any kind,
to sublet to British, British Indian and Koweit subjects, to put
down buoys and carry out all work necessary to ease passage of
steamers from open sea to harbour Shweikh. As area of land now
granted is more than 12 times that originally asked for, rent is
proportionally one third of Cox limit and I strongly recommend I
should be empowered to accept at once without further question.
Koweit subjects right of preemption or prior lease is stronger
than ours to the land surrounding present concession to distance
of 1000 yards from any point of our boundary but otherwise
Government has precedence over all comers with regard to such land.
Government has absolute right of preemption or prior lease to
entire island of Shweikh and its foreshore (also called on chart
Karaim).
Government has absolute right of preemption or prior
Ras Kathama
lease to HKkixexiBixRdxBfxShwBikh and its foreshore to limit of 2
nautical miles in any direction but Sheikh reserves to himself land
for house within boundaries of total linear length of 600 (six
hundred
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The file includes letters (drafts, originals, and copies), telegrams, and notes relating to secret negotiations over the lease of Bander Shweikh [Ash Shuwaykh] from the Shaikh of Kuwait. The correspondence is mostly 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. , Kuwait, 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. (or his assistant) in Bushire, and the Foreign Department of the Government of India, but also includes communications from the Ambassador in Constantinople, Admiralty, 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. , Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Marine Department of the Government of India, Foreign Office, Shaikh Mobarek of Kuwait [Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ], and Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ]. Following the First World War 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. communicated with the Civil (later High) Commissioner in Iraq rather than the Government of India.
The papers cover the following matters:
- the secret negotiations over the terms of the lease agreement 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. , Kuwait and Shaikh Mobarek, such as customs rates and the inclusion of the island of Warba
- concern about how the Turks might view the agreement
- use of the site as the terminus of the Baghdad Railway
- arrangements for the annual payments to the Shaikh
- construction of buildings such as coal sheds and structures such as moorings
- the precise delimitations of the plot to be leased
- termination of the lease and the question of whether to replace it with a subsidy for the Shaikh
- future use of the buildings
- arrangements for a refund following an overpayment
The file includes the following documents:
- Captain Heming's report on the position and requirements for the proposed plot (folios 3-6)
- the final agreement, signed in October 1907, in English and Arabic (folios 118-36)
- a sketch plan of the Bander Shweikh foreshore (folio 185)
- Extent and format
- 1 file (277 folios)
- Arrangement
The file is arranged in chronological order, from the front of the file to the back.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 278; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-218; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/R/15/5/92
- Title
- 'File 36/3 Lease of Bander Shweikh'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:80r, 81r, 84r, 87r:117v, 137r:271v, 272v:277v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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