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THIS DOC UMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOYERNMENT
'fin\ * Wl I July 4, 1933.
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Section 4.
[B 3631/17/34] No. 1.
Mr. Mallet to Sir John Simon.—{Received July 4.)
(No. 300.)
kij. Gulhek, June 17, 1933.
' WITH reference to Mr. Hoare's despatch No. 260 of the 3rd June respecting
the ratification of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company's agreement, I have the honour
to report that this agreement was passed by the Majlis on the 28th May in yrofria
persona, so to speak, without any covering Bill.
2. A Persian translation duly appeared in the Proceedings of the Majlis
for the 28th May (issue No. 18) with the following heading :—
" Law (' Qamin ').
" The Grant of an Oil Concession to the Anglo-Persian Oil
Company (Limited).
t£ Concessionary Agreement granted by the Imperial Persian Government to
the Anglo-Persian Oil Company {Limited) on April 29, 1933.
" Preamble.
" With the object of establishing a new concession, &c., &c "
3. At the end of the Persian translation followed an additional clause:—
" This concession, which consists of twenty-seven articles, was
sanctioned by the National Consultative Assembly in its session of the
7th day of the month of Khordad of the solar year 1312 (the 28th May, 1933).
" President of the Majlis :
"DADGEE."
4. Issue No. 18 of the Proceedings of the Majlis actually contains two
Persian translations. The first is that which was read out article by article to
the Deputies and is interspersed with their remarks. The second is the
formal text. > £
5. No text has yet appeared in the Official Gazette of the Ministry of
Justice.
6. It is worth noting that the official French text given to the press on the
16th May by the Ministry of Finance was headed " Convention de Concession.
A French text printed for the Majlis before the first reading was headed Projet
de Concession." The Persian translation in the Proceedings of the Majhs, as
quoted above, is headed c< Concession " in one place, £t Concessionary Agreement
in another. I suggest that cc agreement " is the word which we should use on
all occasions, official and unofficial, as this term is more appropriate than
"concession " in view of the circumstances in which the instrument was signed.
I have, &c.
V. A. L. MALLET.
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