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5. If Platts Oilgram is discontinued or no longer quotes applicable sellers’
posted prices, some other internationally-accepted index of such prices as agreed
between the parties shall be used for the purpose of this Schedule.
In witness whereof the parties to this Agreement have set their hands the day
and year first above written.

(Sgd.) Ali bin Abdulla Al Thani (Sgd.) G. O. Higgins
Ruler of Qatar On behalf of “ Shell ” Overseas
Exploration Company, Limited.

Witness
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Signed before me
(Sgd.) C. T. E. Ewart-Biggs
Her Majesty’s Political Officer, Qatar.

(a)
Letter, dated November 29, 1952, from Shell Overseas Exploration Company to
the Ruler of Qatar giving some Undertakings Additional to the Agreement
(No. 6) above, and Requesting the Ruler’s Written Acceptance of them

I have the honour to refer to the Agreement between Your Exellency and the
Company which I represent, signed today, and am pleased to record below the
understanding reached between us on the following matters: —
1. My Company acknowledges and respects Your Excellency’s authority and
rights as Ruler of Qatar and is pleased to record its understanding
with Your Excellency that both parties have entered into this Agree­
ment in a spirit of understanding and good faith, and with the intention
of interpreting its meaning in a manner consistent therewith.
2. My Company undertakes to warn all its employees that they must give
heed to and respect the general law and religious customs of the State
of Qatar, and that they should not display in public forbidden things
such as intoxicating liquors.
3. My Company will keep Your Excellency informed of any lands or
buildings which it may, from time to time, require to occupy and also
those which it no longer requires to occupy for the purpose of its
operations.
4. When Your Excellency, in consultation with my Company, decides that
the scale of operations and, in particular, the number of labourers
employed by it in the State of Qatar makes desirable the appointment
of an Emir to represent Your Excellency, my Company will adopt the
practice then being followed in this connection by other Oil Companies
operating in Qatar, in regard to the payment of the salary of such Emir
and his assistants. .
5 When my. Company has constructed and is using its own harbour facilities
in Qatar, my Company will, if such harbour facilities are not in an
area where Customs Officers are already stationed, adopt the practice
being followed at the time by other Oil Companies operating in the
State of Qatar in regard to the provision of adequate accommodation
for, and the payment of the salary, at the customary rate, of a Customs
Officer to be appointed by Your Excellency’s Government and to be
stationed in the vicinity of such harbour.