'File 36/3 Lease of Bander Shweikh'

Title:

'File 36/3 Lease of Bander Shweikh'

Date:

1905/1923

Description:

Abstract: The file includes letters (drafts, originals, and copies), telegrams, and notes relating to secret negotiations over the lease of Bander Shweikh [Ash Shuwaykh] from the Shaikh of Kuwait. The correspondence is mostly between the Political Agent, Kuwait, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (or his assistant) in Bushire, and the Foreign Department of the Government of India, but also includes communications from the Ambassador in Constantinople, Admiralty, India Office, Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf, Marine Department of the Government of India, Foreign Office, Shaikh Mobarek of Kuwait [Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ], and Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ]. Following the First World War the Political Resident communicated with the Civil (later High) Commissioner in Iraq rather than the Government of India.The papers cover the following matters:the secret negotiations over the terms of the lease agreement between the Political Agent, Kuwait and Shaikh Mobarek, such as customs rates and the inclusion of the island of Warbaconcern about how the Turks might view the agreementuse of the site as the terminus of the Baghdad Railwayarrangements for the annual payments to the Shaikhconstruction of buildings such as coal sheds and structures such as mooringsthe precise delimitations of the plot to be leasedtermination of the lease and the question of whether to replace it with a subsidy for the Shaikhfuture use of the buildingsarrangements for a refund following an overpaymentThe file includes the following documents:Captain Heming's report on the position and requirements for the proposed plot (folios 3-6)the final agreement, signed in October 1907, in English and Arabic (folios 118-36)a sketch plan of the Bander Shweikh foreshore (folio 185)Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 278; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-218; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Harbours

Geographic region:

Bander Shweikh

Rights:

المُلكية العامة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000831.0x000027_ar
81055/vdc_100000000831.0x000027_en
IOR/R/15/5/92
IOR/R/15/5/92

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