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7. We acted according to the agreement; but the Ruler of Qatar did not care
for it; and we made complaints to you in this respect.
We therefore request you to settle this case as soon as you can.

(iii)
(Paragraph 34)

Letter, dated June 24, 1948, from the Ruler of Bahrain to the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs
The following is what I am still prepared to do: —
(a) To define, as is shown on the map herewith, the area of Zubarah. To hold
this land and what is on it in free use by my family, my adherents and my subjects.
(b) To hold the land so defined as in private ownership for ever.
(c) To surrender to the Shaikh of Qatar or otherwise renounce all oil rights
in the Zubara area; in this connexion I would like to point out that I have never
at any time claimed such rights there.
{d) Subject to my seeing the oil concession Agreement between the Shaikh of
Qatar and the Petroleum Concessions Limited to respect the provisions of that
Agreement so that all its benefits, entirely, go to the Shaikh of Qatar.
(e) To obtain the surrender by the Bahrain Petroleum Company of any claims
they have or may have in Zubara under the concession which they hold from me in
my territories.
(/) To continue, as now and as before, to allow Petroleum Concessions Limited
freedom to conduct its business in my country and to buy water from here and
carry it to Qatar. In this connection I hope that ways may be found to provide
enough water for the needs of the Company in Qatar, without exposing my country
to detriment or bad consequences, by pipes from Bahrain.
(g) In return for this fair offer I require to obtain the rights of my family, my
adherents and my subjects at Zubara including freedom and security for their lives
and property similar to the conditions which they enjoyed at Zubara prior to the
dispute in 1936.

APPENDIX E
(Paragraph 43)
Delimitation of the Bahrain-Qatar Sea-bed Boundary—1947

Letter, dated December 23 1947, from the Political Agent, Bahrain, to the Ruler of
Bahrain
I am instructed by the Honourable the Political Resident to inform Your
Highness that His Majesty’s Government has, for some time past, had under
consideration the boundary which should delimit Your Highness’s rights in the bed
of the sea lying between the territory of Your Highness and that of His Excellency
the Shaikh of Qatar. Apart from any other considerations the operations ot tne
Oil Companies in Your Highness’s and His Excellency the Shaikh of Qatar
territory make such a delimitation necessary.
2. I am, therefore, to forward herewith for your Highness’s information a
copy of a map showing the line (from point “ M ” to the “ Bahrain Light vessel;
which His Majesty’s Government considers, divides in accordance with equitaoie
principles the sea-bed aforesaid. This is a median line based generally-on tn
configuration of the coast-line of the Bahrain main island and the peninsula o
Qatar.
3. With the exceptions noted below His Majesty’s Government will, in future,
regard all the sea-bed lying to the west of this line as being under the .sove1*^1? t^e
Your Highness and all the sea-bed lying to the east of it as being under