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rights or liabilities of either party hereunder, the same shall, failing any agreement
to settle it in any other way, be referred to 2 arbitrators, one of whom shall be
chosen by each party, and a referee who shall be chosen by the arbitrators before
proceeding to arbitration.
(b) Each party shall nominate its own arbitrator within 60 days of delivery
of a request so to do by the other party, failing which its arbitrator may at the
request of the other party be designated by the British Political Resident in the
Persian Gulf. In the event of the arbitrators failing to agree within 60 days after
being chosen or designated the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf may
appoint a referee at the request of the arbitrators or of either of them.
(c) The decision of the arbitrators or in the case of a difference of opinion
between them the decision of the referee shall be final and binding on both parties.
(d) In giving a decision the arbitrators or the referee shall specify an adequate
period of delay during which the party against whom the decision is given shall
conform to the decision and that party shall be in default only if that party has
failed to conform to the decision prior to the expiry of that period and not
otherwise.
(e) The place of arbitration shall be such as may be agreed by the parties
and in default of agreement shall be London.

Article 24
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The Shaikh may select in consultation with the local representative of the
Company a local man, conversant with the English language, to act as a confidential
person as between the Shaikh and the Company’s representative and to assist in
procuring the labour that the Company may require. The salary of the Shaikh’s
confidential person so appointed shall be paid by the Company through the Shaikh
at Kalbah and shall be at the rate of Rs. 400 per month.
And reliance is upon Allah.
General Manager of Petroleum Ruler of Kalbah and its dependencies.
Development (Trucial Coast) Ltd. (Seal of)
Stephen Hemsley Longrigg. Khalid bin Ahmad bin Sultan.
Witness: Witness:
Ali Tajir. Abdullah bin Ahmad bin Sultan.
Witness:
Saqr bin Abdullah bin Ahmad.

(a)

Letter, dated December 29, 1938, from Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast),
Limited to the Regent of Kalba, requesting him to confirm that his signature
of the Concession Agreement includes the Present Ruler of Kalba and any
Future Ruler
(1) In connection with the oil concession Agreement which you signed at
Ajman on the 27th of Shuwal 1357, I beg you to confirm that you signed this
Agreement in your official capacity as Regent of Kalbah, and that your signature
includes the present Ruler of Kalbah who is under your guardianship and any
future Ruler to whom may be entrusted the government of Kalbah:
(2) And in connection with your verbal proposal that the place of Arbitration
provided for in para. (e) of Article 23 should be Baghdad, I have pleasure in
informing Your Excellency that I am agreeable to your proposal.
(3) And in reply to your verbal proposal for the payment by instalments of
Hle annual amount provided in para, (c) of Article 5,1 have pleasure in informing
.our Excellency that I am agreeable to the payment of the amount in four
instalments on condition that you will come to one of the Company’s offices to
ake delivery of each instalment, or send your representative for this purpose.
I beg you to favour me with your reply.
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