مجموعة ١٦٤/٣٠ "النفط: امتيازات النفط في الساحل المتصالح: - كلباء." [و‎‎٧‎١] (٢٤٤/١٤٤)

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DUBAI
TRUCIAL COAST
December 20th, 1938.
Petroleum Concessions I.td.
London.
After a number of conversations between the under
signed and Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed of Kalbah, all held at
Ajman where the Shaikh is staying, an Agreement was signed
today between him and the Company.
This Agreement is forwarded to you herewith in the
Arabic original, with an English translation, An Arabic
original remains with the Shaikh, and translations are
being sent to our Bahrain office and to the Political
Agent, Bahrain.
The necessary funds for the payments specified are
being xrai; obtained from the Eastern Bank, Karachi, by Air,
as in the case of the recent Ras al Khaimah agreement.
It will be observed that the now Agreement follows
closely the lines of previous Concessions on the Trucial
Coast. A quantity of unessential matter has been omitted,
and the wording simplified in certain places. Efforts were
made to ensure that the Shaikh understood what he was signing,
but large parts did not appear to interest him. He was
resolute only about obtaining f, the same as Sharjah and Dubai".
This, generally speaking, he has done.
Article 4 is new, and emphasises that the Shaikh is a
man of outstanding personality, and likely to be of real value
to the Company in its future efforts to obtain access to dif
ficult areas. He is the oldest, and the most personally
influential, of the tTuwasim rulers, although his own terri
tory is small. It extends from the boundary between the
Muscat territories at Murair and the Shumaliyah, to a point
near Dibah at the north end of the Shumaliyah, omitting cer
tain villages which have an independent status. He claims
to be paramount over a good part of the mountain country
behind/-