مجموعة ٣٠/٨٧(٢) الجزء I "قطر: الامتياز النفطي." [و‎‎٣‎٠‎٥] (١٣١٠/٦٣٠)

in default of S " Ch " ^ agr6ed by the partieS and
01 19.—rhe Company shall make all payments that become due to the
Shaikh under this Agreement into the Shaikh’s account at the Ottoman Bank in
Basrah and the Bank s receipt shall be a full discharge for the Company in respect
to the payment of the sum stated m the Bank’s receipt. The Shaikh may from
time to time designate m writing another Bank or Banks for the purpose of this
Article 20.—For the purpose of royalty payments the Company shall measure by
a. met tod customaiily used m good technical practice all petroleum on which. ro 3 T alty
is payable and the Shaikh by his representative duly authorised by him shall have
the right to observe such measuring and to examine and test whatever appliances
may be used for such measuring. Such representative shall comply with all
necessary and usual safeguards for the prevention of fire or other accident; and
shall make all examinations and tests at such times and in such manner as will
cause the minimum of interference with the Company’s operations. If upon such
examination or testing any such appliance shall be found to be out of order the
Company will cause the same to be put in order at its own expense within a
reasonable time, and if upon any such examination as aforesaid any error shall be
discovered in any such appliance, such error shall if the Shaikh so decide after hearing
the Company’s explanation be considered to have existed for three (3) calendar
months previous^to the discovery thereof or from the last occasion of examining the
same in case such occasion shall be within such period of three (3) calendar months
and the royalty shall be adjusted accordingly. If the Company should find it
necessary to alter repair or replace any measuring appliance it shall give reasonable
notice to the Shaikh or his representative to enable a representative of the Shaikh to
be present during such alteration, repair or replacement
The Company shall keep full and correct records of all measurements as
aforesaid and the said representative of the Shaikh shall have access at all
reasonable times to such records and shall be at liberty to make extracts from
them. Such records shall be treated as confidential by the Shaikh and his
representatives with the exception of such figures therein as the Shaikh may be
required by law to publish.
Article 21.—This Agreement is written in English and translated into Arabic.
If there should at any time be disagreement as to the meaning or interpretation of
any clause in this Agreement the English text shall prevail.
IN WITNESS whereof the parties to this Agreement have set their hands the
day and year first above written.
On behalf of the Kuwait Oil Com
pany Limited.
(Signed) Frank Holmes.
A. Chisholm.
In the presence of—
H. R. P. Dickson, Lt.-Col.,
23rd December 1931.
Shaikh of Kuwait.
(Signed)
(Signature of Shaikh of Kuwait.)
In the presence of—-
H. R. P. Dickson, Lt.-Col.,
23rd December 1934.