Appendix 7: Lermitte to Ruler of Sharjah 26/9/’45

T/SA.15/4030 26th September, 1945.

His Excellency Sultan bin Saqr al Qassim,

Ruler of Sharjah,

Sharjah.

Your Excellency,

Your Excellency will remember that in the years 1937 (1356) and 1938 (1357) the Company was in correspondence with Your Excellency on the subject of a visit by our company geologists to the Jabel Faiyah area. Your Excellency was unable to arrange the visit at this time. Later in your 161 dated 18th Ramadan ‘57 Your Excellency drew the Company's attention to paragraph ‘C’ of schedule No. 1 to the Company's Oil Concession Agreement of 1937 (by which your Excellency's formal permission in writing is necessary before a company party can visit the Al Faiyah area). In 1939 war broke out and the question of this visit was not followed up.

The war has now ended and plans are being made for geological work on the Trucial Coast. Work is expected to commence about January 1946 (Safar 1365) and will continue up to the end of the cool season. We shall be glad if Your Excellency will make the necessary arrangements for our geologists to visit the Jebel Faiyah area in January 1946 (Safar 1365) and provide the necessary friends and guards to ensure that the party can do their geological work in safety and without hindrance. The party will remain in the Al Faiyah area as long as necessary for them to complete their work. We shall be pleased if Your Excellency will inform us in writing as soon as the visit is arranged with full particulars in order that our geologists will have time to make their programme. Your Excellency's letter should also include the formal permission for the company's party to visit the Al Faiyah area as laid down in para ‘C’ of Schedule No. 1 to the Sharjah Oil Concession Agreement of 1937 between the company and Your Excellency.

We are making this request with the knowledge of the Hon’ble Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent, Bahrain. We shall be grateful if Your Excellency will acknowledge receipt of this letter.