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(4) The figure “ 75,000 ” where it respectively appears in Articles IV and
VIII of the Lease shall be deleted and the figure “ 150,000” shall be inserted
in the place thereof. i
(C) The Lease shall henceforth be read and construed as if the modifications
set out in Clause (B)—(1), (2), (3) and (4) of this Deed had been made in the Lease
on the fourteenth day of November one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five
and as so modified the Lease is hereby ratified and confirmed.
Dated this third day of June one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six and
executed in three parts all having equal validity.

The Bahrein Petroleum Company His Excellency The Shaikh of Bahrain.
Limited.
(Seal)
By (Signed) E. A. SKINNER.
Before me (Signed)
By (Signed) G. W. R. SMITH.
T. HICKINBOTHAM.
3/6/36.
H. B. M’s. Political Agent, Bahrain.
(Stamp)

(b)

Deed of Further Modification dated June 19, 1940, made between the Bahrein
Petroleum Company and the Ruler of Bahrain whereby the Mining Lease
is extended to cover all “ the Shaikh's present and future Dominions ”
known as the “ Additional Area ”

Made between His Highness Shaikh Sir Hamad Bin Shaikh 'Isa A1 Khalifah,
K.C.I.E., C.S.I., Shaikh of Bahrein, of the one part (in this Deed called “ the
Shaikh ”) (acting on the advice of the British Political Resident in the Persian
Gulf) and The Bahrein Petroleum Company Limited of the other part (in this Deed
called “ the Company ”) And being supplemental to a Lease dated the 29th da>
of December 1934 (in this Deed called “the Lease”) made between the same
parties as are parties to this Deed whereby certain rights and privileges were
conferred upon the Company in consideration of the payment by the Company
of the royalties and of the observance and performance by the Company of the
other obligations more particularly referred to in the Lease and being also
supplemental to the Deed dated the 3rd day of June 1936 and expressed to be
supplemental to the Lease (in this Deed called “ the First Supplemental Deed ”)
made between the same parties as are parties to this Deed by which the Company
covenanted that it would proceed to establish as soon as practicable a Refinery at
Bahrein and the Lease was altered in the manner and to the extent stated in the
First Supplemental Deed
Witnesses as follows: —
Article 1
The Shaikh on his part and the Company on its part have performed to date
all their agreements and obligations under the Lease as altered by the First
Supplemental Deed.
Article 2
(a) All lands, islands, shoals, reefs, waters and submerged lands over which
the Shaikh now has dominion or which may, after the date of this Deed, come under
the dominion of the Shaikh or his Successors during the period of fifty-five years
from the date of this Deed, or any extension of such period, are in this Deed called
the “ Shaikh’s present and future dominions ”.
(b) Those of the Shaikh's present dominions which were not at the time of
this Deed exclusively leased to the Company by the Lease, together with the
Shaikh’s future dominions, have been called, and are called in this DppH th*.
Additional Area ”. ’ me