Agreement between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and Parviz Khan Gunduzlu ([1911] 1926)

Agreement between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and Parwiz Khan, Gunduzlu

Translation

It is now agreed between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and Parwiz Khan, Gunduzlu, that 7 guards for Dara Khazina and 3 sowars to accompany the vehicle* be appointed and supplied by the latter and the pay of the guards shall be 70 Krans and of the sowars 120 Krans per man per mensem, all of which pay shall be paid to Parwiz Khan himself and all responsibility for all thefts, etcetera, shall rest with Parwiz Khan and the pay shall be handed over to Parwiz Khan in accordance with the practice of the Company.

Should the Company restrict its operations at Dara Khazina, the Company has the right to decrease the guards, but should the Company require more guards or sowars Parwiz Khan is bound to provide them, and the pay of these (extra) temporary guards and sowars shall be 2 Krans per diem for the former and 5 Krans per diem for the latter.

Should any robbery take place in the lands appertaining to Dara Khazina, half the monthly pay of the guards and sowars shall be detached and deducted till the equivalent value of the stolen goods is recovered.

During such a time as the Company has a Depot at Dara Khazina 2,000 Krans shall remain deposited with them of Parwiz Khan’s money, by way of security; whenever the Company removes its Depot from Dara Khazina, this deposit shall be repaid to Parwiz Khan.

In addition to the above-mentioned guards and sowars Parwiz Khan shall supply two guards for the protection of the telephone line and the pipe-line from Abgunji to Haddam and their pay shall be paid as for the other guards, and the responsibility for these two men rests with Parwiz Khan, to whom their pay shall be paid.

The Company has the right both to discontinue or alter this Agreement, and should Parwiz Khan break or fail to carry out any of the terms of this Agreement, he shall forfeit the right to repayment of his 2,000 Krans security.

Moreover, in addition to the pay of the guards and sowars, 200 Krans per mensem shall be paid to Parwiz Khan monthly in accordance with the practice of the Company.

Further, either Parwiz Khan or one of his brothers must always be present in Dara Khazina to attend to the work of the Company.

Dated 20^th February 1911.

This agreement is correct.

(Signed and sealed) PARWIZ KHAN, GUNDUZLU.

For Strick, Scott & Company,

˶ Anglo-Persian Oil Company,

˶ Bakhtiari Oil Company,

            (Sd.) CHAS. RITCHIE.

            (Sd.) M.Y. YOUNG.

20^th February 1911.

* Translated as “gyrus” in original translation and altered to “vehicle.”

Assurances, Undertakings and Agreements, Etc., Made by Certain Chiefs and Khans of Southern Persia with the British Government and Certain British Trading Companies, Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1926, pp. 59―60.