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                                  plant, and properties (including buildings) whether owned by the
                                  Company or on lease from any other person or persons, and the
                                  Substances before and after their removal from the ground and
                                  upon the technical processes carried out upon or utilised in
                                  connexion with the Substances.”
                       (iv) in Article Eleventh of the existing Convention the words commencing
                             " But the Company shall also ” down to and including the words “ in
                             number and equipment ” shall be deleted and the following words
                             substituted therefore : 4‘ In pursuance of the foregoing the Shaikh or
                             his representative will appoint and provide at his own expense from
                             time to time as may be necessary sufficient regular police of the State
                             of Qatar for this duty. Such police will be trained and administered
                             by the proper officials of the Shaikh's Government. The company will
                             provide free of charge to the Shaik) suitable furnished quarters light
                             and water for such police in the areas occupied by the Company for
                             the purpose of its operations. As from the dale upon which such
                             police are appointed and ready for duty and for so long as they arc duly
                             provided from time to time in accordance with "this Article the
                            Company will make payment to the Shaikh in respect of the provision
                            of such police of a sum at the rale of £20,000 sterling per annum payable
                            quarterly in arrears, or such sum as may hereafter be agreed in the
                            event of any appreciable changes in the Company's requirements for
                            police having occurred or occurring since the 13th October 1951 when
                            a sum of Rs. 250,000 was agreed. Undertaking (4) set out in one of the
                            two letters herinbefore referred to in the definition of “ the Existing
                            Convention ” shall cease to have effect.
                      (b) Save as aforesaid the Existing Convention shall continue in full force and
                  effect.
                                                Article 7
                      Should any dispute occur between the Shaikh and the Company in regard to
                  the interpretation of this Agreement or of any matter arising therefrom or in regard
                  to the engagements obligatory on either of the parties in accordance therewith, such
                  dispute shall if no agreement can be arrived at for settling it by any other method
                  be referred to arbitration in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
                  Sixteenth of the Amended Convention.
                                                 Article 8
                      This Agreement shall be binding upon both the 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 interpretation of any Article, at any time, the Arabic
                  version is to be relied upon.
                      In witness whereof the two parties have hereunto set their hands and seals on
                  the day and in the year mentioned in the preamble.

                    (Sgd.) Ali bin Abdulla Al Thani           (Sgd.) Richard Bird
                            (Ruler of Qatar)                  For and on behalf of
                                                       Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited

                   (Sgd.) Abdulla Derwish Fakhroo          Witness (Sgd.) H. M. Jackson
                      (Sgd.) Ebrahim Al Arrayed              (Sgd.) R. J. Proudfoot
                                                       Signed before me
                                                             (Sgd.) C. Ewart Biggs
                                                        Her Majesty's Poltical Officer, Qatar.






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