'File 10/1 XIV Bahrain Oil Concession'

The volume contains minutes of meetings at Office of the Secretary of State for India in London, correspondence and telegrams between the Political Agent in Bahrain, the Political Resident in Bushire, the Financial Adviser to the Government in Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, and representatives of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) on the acquisition by Texas Corporation and Standard Oil Company of California of the share control of BAPCO. The volume includes:. abstracts of accounts of oil measured during 1936 and 'Statement on Royalty' for 1936 (ff. 21, 188); copy in English and Arabic of the deed of modification of the 1934 Lease, agreed on 3 June 1936 between Sheikh of Bahrain 'Isa al Khalifah and BAPCO, on the opening of a refinery and on the exemption from State, Municipal and custom taxes for BAPCO (ff. 38c- 38f); '1936 Annual Report' including 'Status of Bahrein [sic] Wells as of December 31, 1936' (ff. 173-184); There are newspaper cuttings on oil in the Gulf and several maps within the volume:. 'Proposed Reservation for Refinery, Water Wells and Lines to Sitra' (3 copies, ff. 54, 85,146); Area Map Refinery to Ship's anchorage Bahrain (f. 207); 'General Map of Bahrein [sic] Island' (f. 241b); There are some letters and documents in Arabic. There is an index at the end of the volume (folios 227-240).

The documents in the volume are arranged in chronological order. There is an index at the end of the volume, (folios 227-240). The index is arranged chronologically and refers to documents within the volume; it gives brief description of the correspondence with a reference number, which refers back to that correspondence in the volume.

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