ملف ١٩١٦//٢٩٠٢ "المعاهدات والاتفاقيات بين الحكومة البريطانية وحُكام الساحل العربي للخليج الفارسي" [و‎‎٥‎٦] (٤٤٨/١٢٢)

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t APPENDIX II.
Translation from the French.
BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY
THE SHAH OF PERSIA OF THE ONE PART AND WILLIAM
KNOX D’ARCT, OF INDEPENDENT MEANS, RESIDING IN
LONDON AT No. 42, GROSVENOR SQUARE (HEREINAFTER
CALLED THE CONCESSIONNAIRE), OF THE OTHER PART.
The following has by these presents been agreed on and arranged, viz. • —
Article 1.
The Government of His Imperial Majesty the Shah grants to the
Concessionnaire by these presents a special and exclusive privilege to search
for, obtain, exploit, develop, render suitable for trade carry away and sell
natural gas, petroleum, asphalte and ozokerit throughout the whole extent of
the Persian Empire for a term of 60 years as from the date of these presents.
Article 2.
This privilege shall comprise the exclusive right of laying the pipe lines
necessary from the deposits wTiere they may be found one or several of the
said products up to the Persian Gulf as also the necessary distributing
blanches. It shall also comprise the right of constructing and maintaining all
and any wells, reservoirs, stations, and pump services, accumulation services and
distribution services, workshops and other works of arrangement that may be
necessary. J
Article 3.
. Tlie Imperial Persian Government grants gratuitously to the Concession
naire all uncultivated lands belonging to the State which the Concessionnaire’s
engineers may deem necessary for the construction of the whole or any part of
the abovementioned works. As for cultivated lands belonging to the State
the Concessionnaire must purchase them at the fair and current price of the
Province. r
The Government also grants to the Concessionnaire the right of acquiring
all and any other lands or buildings necessary for the said purpose with the
consent of the proprietors on such conditions as may be arranged between him
and them without their being allowed to make demands of a nature to sur
charge the prices ordinarily current for lands situate in their respective locali
ties. Holy places with all their dependencies within a radius of 200 Persian
archines are formally excluded.
Article 4.
As three petroleum mines situate at Shushtar, Qasr-i-Shirin in the
province of Kermanshah and Dalaki near Bushire are at present let to private
persons and produce an annual revenue of two thousand tomans for the benefit
of the Government it has been agreed that the three aforesaid mines shall be
comprised in the Deed of Concession in conformity with Article 1 on condition
that over and above the 16 per cent, mentioned in Article 10 the Concession-
naire shall pay every year the fixed sum of 2,000 (two thousand) tomans to the
Imperial Government.
Article 5.
The course of the pipe lines shall be fixed by the Concessionnaire and his
Engineers.
Article 6.
Notwithstanding what is above set forth the privilege granted by these
presents shall not extend to the Provinces of Azerbaijan, Ghilan, Mazandaran,
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