مجموعة ٣٠/٨٧(٢) الجزء I "قطر: الامتياز النفطي." [و‎‎٣‎٦‎٥] (١٣١٠/٧٤٨)

The award of arbitration shall be consistent with the legal principles familiar to
civilised nations.
The decision of the majority of arbitrators shall be final, and the place of
arbitration shall be Qatr.
On giving any award, the arbitrators shall fix a sufficient time within which
the party against whom the award is given, should carry out the said award. And
that party shall be considered at fault only when he fails to comply with the award
before the expiry of the aforesaid period and not otherwise.
Article Seventeenth. —-The labourers employed by the Company must be from
amongst the Shaikh’s own subjects or from amongst those approved by the Shaikh,
excepting technical employees and. the managers and clerks whom the Company may
require and whom it cannot find in the country. As the Shaikh prescribes as a
condition the dismissal of any employee whose retention is disapproved by the
Shaikh, if the Shaikh has observed any irregular conduct on his part. And it
naturally follows that the wages which the Company pays to the employees from
amongst Qatr people shall be reasonable.
Article Eighteenth. —The Shaikh and the Company declare that they base action
upon this Agreement on the basis of good faith and pure belief and upon the
interpretation of this Agreement in a manner consistent with reason. And the
Company undertakes to acknowledge the Shaikh’s authority and his rights in his
capacity as the Ruler of the State of Qatr principality and to respect them in every
manner.
Article Nineteenth. —Nothing contained in this Agreement shall prevent the
Shaikh in any manner whatever from granting concessions to other parties for
anything excepting the Substances mentioned in the First Article provided that the
said concessions do not interfere with the rights of the Company or its operations in
accordance with this Agreement.
Article Twentieth. —The Company will pay all the sums due to the Shaikh, in
accordance with this Agreement, into the Shaikh’s account in the Eastern Bank
Limited in Bahrein and the receipt taken from that Bank shall be a full acquittance
of the Company’s liability for the sum mentioned in the Bank’s receipt. The
Shaikh may, from time to time appoint another Bank or other Banks for the
purposes of this Article, and this shall be done in writing.
Article Twenty-First. —-This Agreement shall be binding upon both parties and
their successors and assigns ; and it has been written in Arabic and English and all
due care has been taken to make the two texts identical in meaning. And if any
difference should arise as to the meaning or the interpretation of any article, at
any time, the Arabic version is to be relied upon.
Article Twenty-Second. —The expression year, month and day used in this
Agreement shall mean what is consistent with the English Solar Calendar and not
any other.
IN WITNESS whereof the two parties have hereunto set their hands and seals
on the day and in the year mentioned iu the preamble.
(Signed)
Abdullah Bin Qasim Al Thant,
Ruler of Qatar.
Witness.
Salih bin Sulaiman
al Man i.
For the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Ltd.
C. C. Mylles,
Representative.
H. H. Hilmi.