ملف رقم ١٤٢١ لسنة ١٩٠٨، جزء ٣، "بلاد فارس: النفط؛ مفاوضات بين شيخ المحمرة وشركة النفط الأنجلو-فارسية" [و‎‎٣‎٥‎٦] (٣٣٨/٢٧٧)

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Tologruii to Sir G. Barclay TEHRAN.
•i'.O, June 24th. 1909, 1-5 p.i.i.
No 312.
Follor/iryj for Co^,:-
Your tel i!o.620 of Juno 19 (loaoo of land by too Anglo-Peroion
Oil Coupony fron tho ShoiMi of I-IohatrjGrah)
Mr Lloyd,tho Company'o a^cnt in Persia,hac full power to oottlo
tno loaoo on tho spot. You should endeavour to arrary-e for his
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precjonco at Mohcmerah during : ; visit*
I df^roo that no option is neededto reversion of buildings
otc # but if Sheikh ref ore to it, you can point out that tho con
ditions of the 1905 Bakhtiari agreemt uoro understood to refer
only to any catcha buildings that night be loft at tho expira
tion oi concession and not,as in the present case to the ocuno
property as is referred to in Art. 15 of tho Agrconont with tho
Persian 0-ovt of 1901. principal difforoncos botv/con tho
two drafts aro:-
(a) Pothing appears in tho new draft as to rovorsion of build
ings and machinery to tho Khans,but I havosincc soon ropreson-
tativo of Conpony who would not object to tho aero otatcaont
in tie- agroonont that the buildings aachinory etc will be left
on the round at tin expiration of tho concession. This my
therefore be inserted. If necessary you my in this connection
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give tho assurance suggested in Sir G-. Barclay’s tel No.460
(of June n) but this oust not appear in the agreement.
(b) The lease from tho Sheikh met be for tho tern of the
T 'oraian Oovt’s concession or for any renewal thereof.