Palestine <3a3ette publisbeb by Hutborit^ No. 897 THURSDAY, 22ND JUNE, 1939 601 CONTENTS Page BILL PUBLISHED FOR INFORMATION Iraq Petroleum Company Conventions and Agreements Bill, 1939 - - 603 GOVERNMENT NOTICES ־ Appointment of Consul of the United States at Jerusalem - - 623 ־ - Obituary - - - - 623 ־ Appointments, etc. - - - - - 623 ־ - - - ־ Land Valuer's Licence granted 624 Medical Licence cancelled ----- 624 ־ Imperial Reply Coupons - - - - 624 Loss of Government Receipt Books by the Assistant District Commissioner's Offices, Acre 624 Loss of Unused Receipts, Licences and Certificates by the Custom Houses of Khan Yunis and Gaza - 624 Tender and Adjudication of Contracts - 624 ־ - ־ - - - Citation Orders 625 ־ - - Notices of the Execution Offices, Tel Aviv and Haifa - 620 RETURNS Quarantine and Infectious Diseases Summary - 631 Sale of Unclaimed Goods - - - - • - 631 Persons changing their Names - 632 REGISTRATION OF COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES, COMPANIES AND PARTNERSHIPS, NOTICES REGARDING BANKRUPTCIES, ETC. - - - - - - 636 ־ ־ ' - CORRIGENDA - - - - 643 SUPPLEMENT No. 2. The following subsidiary legislation is published in Supplement No. 2 which forms part of this Gazette: — Orders under the Emergency Regulations, 1936, prohibiting Jewish Traffic into Tel Aviv or out of Tel Aviv for certain Periods - - - 445 Exclusion of Foreign Newspapers (No. 18) Order in Council, 1939, under the Press ־ ־ Ordinance - - - - 446 (Continued) PRICE : 30 MILS, CONTENTS {Continued) Page ־ Notice of Grant of a Permit to publish a Newspaper, under the Press Ordinance 446 Order No. 89 of 1939, under the Urban Property Tax Ordinance, appointing four Appeal Commissions in the Urban Area of Jerusalem - 447 Notice of Posting of Valuation Lists in the Urban Area of Haifa, under the Urban Property Tax Ordinance - - - - - 447 Notices under the Town Planning Ordinance, 1936, provisionally approving certain Town Planning Schemes within the Town Planning Area of Tel Aviv - 448 Notice under the Town Planning Ordinance, 1936, provisionally approving a Parcella- tion Scheme within the Town Planning Area of Jaffa - - - 450 Notices under the Town Planning Ordinance, 1936, approving certain Parcellation Schemes within the Town Planning Areas of Tel Aviv, Petah Tiqva and Sarona 450 Notification of Commencement of Settlement of Rights to Land in the Qira wa Qamun Village, under the Land (Settlement of Title) Ordinance - - 452 Notices of Posting of Schedules of Rights to Land in certain Villages, under the Land (Settlement of Title) Ordinance - 453 Customs Tariff and Exemption Order (No. 4), 1939, under the Customs Tariff and Exemption Ordinance, 1937 - 454 Order under the Magistrates' Courts Jurisdiction, 1935, directing that all Civil Actions and Criminal Proceedings triable in the Magistrate's Court, Majdal, to be tried by the Magistrate sitting at Majdal - 456 Notice of Grant of Oil Prospecting Licences, under the Oil Mining Ordinance, 1938 - 456 22nd June, 1939 THE PALESTINE GAZETTE NOTICE. The following DRAFT ORDINANCE is made public prior to enactment in accordance with Article 17 (1) (d) of the Palestine Order in Council, 1922, as amended by Article 3 of the Palestine (Amendment) Order in Council, 1923. ROBERT SCOTT 15th June, 1939. Clerk to the Advisory Council. (Q/5/32) DRAFT. AN ORDINANCE TO VALIDATE THE CONVENTION REGULATING THE TRANSIT OF MINERAL OILS OF IRAQ PETROLEUM COMPANY LIMITED, TUROCC II PALESTINE AND THE SUP• PLEMENTAL CONVENTION TO THAT CONVENTION AND CERTAIN AGREEMENTS REGULATING THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN OIL DOCK IN II ALL• A HARBOUR AND THE USE AND CONTROL THEREOF BY THE SAID COMPANY. RE IT ENACTED by the High Commissioner for Palestine, with the advice of the Advisory Council thereof :— 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Iraq Petroleum Com• Short title. pany Conventions and Agreements Ordinance, 1939. 2. The Conventions set out in the First Schedule and in the Convention and Agreements in Third Schedule to this Ordinance, and the Agreements set out in Schedules the Second Schedule to this Ordinance, shall be deemed to be and validated. always to have been valid for all their purposes, and the High Com• missioner is hereby vested, and shall be deemed to have been vested as from the respective dates of the said Conventions and Agreements, with all powers necessary for carrying out his part thereunder. FIRST SCHEDULE. CONVENTION REGULATING THE TRANSIT OF MINERAL OILS OF IRAQ PETROLEUM COMPANY LIMITED THROUGH THE TERRITORY OF PALESTINE. THIS CONVENTION made the fifth day of January, 1931, between the High Com• missioner for Palestine (hereinafter called "the Pligh Commissioner") of the one part and IRAQ PETROLEUM COMPANY LIMITED a company incorporated in England whose registered office in England is situate at King William Street House, Arthur Street, in the city of London (hereinafter called "the Company") which expression wherever used shall be deemed to include its assigns or any duly con• stituted subsidiary or associated company or any other company which may be recognised under Article XXVI as being formed or employed by the Company for the purpose of constructing, maintaining or operating pipe-lines, refineries or works ancillary thereto which form the subject of this Convention, of the other part. WHEREAS the Company was incorporated on the 31st day of January, 1911, under the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, under the style of i\frican and Eastern Concessions Limited, which style with effect from the 23rd October, 1912, was changed to Turkish Petroleum Company Limited, which style •with effect from the 8th June, 1929, was changed to Iraq Petroleum Company Limited. AND WHEREAS on the 14th day of March, 1925, a Convention (hereinafter called* "the Iraq Concession", which expression shall include any extension or modifica• tion thereof) was entered into between the Government of Iraq of the one part, and the Company of the other part, whereby the said Government granted to the Company the exclusive right to explore, prospect, drill for, extract and render 604 THE PALESTINE GAZETTE •22nd June, 1939 suitable for trade petroleum, naphtha, natural gases, ozokerite, and the derivatives thereof, upon the terms, and subject to the conditions and provisions in the Iraq Concession described or contained. AND WHEREAS the Company, in connection with the exploitation of the Iraq Concession, is desirous of laying a pipe-line or pipe-lines from Iraq to a terminal port on the Mediterranean coast, the said pipe-line traversing the territory of Pal• estine, and for the purposes of this Convention of erecting and maintaining within that territory ónices, pumping stations, workshops, stores, storage tanks for oil and water, bridges, residences for employees, rail and tram lines, aerial ropeways or tel- ferage, roads, rolling stock, overhead or underground cable lines, ferries, road, water and aerial transport, aerodromes, electric cables, (whether overhead or under• ground), telegraph and telephone lines, wireless installations, refineries, tank farms, hospitals, power schemes, oil, gas arid water lines, either exposed, buried, or sub• merged, and other works (whether of the kind aforesaid or not) appertaining or auxiliary thereto, (all of which works are hereinafter collectively included in the expression "the undertaking"). AND WHEREAS the High Commissioner, in consideration of the benefits which the country will derive from the undertaking, is desirous of facilitating the under• taking by the means prescribed in this Convention. Now IT is HEREBY AGREED between the High Commissioner and the Company in the manner following :— ARTICLE I. Rights granted The High Commissioner grants by these presents to the Com• to Company pany the right (hereinafter called "the concession") to construct, maintain, and operate one or more pipe-lines and all the .works ancillary thereto, arid to do all things necessary for the undertaking on the following conditions. ARTICLE II. Duration of The duration of the Concession shall be for seventy years from Concession. the date of signature hereof. Submission Before beginning the laying of the pipe-line the Company shall of plans. submit to the High'Commissioner plans showing the lands in which the pipe-line is to be laid and the lands on or over which any pumping station, refineries or other works of the undertaking are to be erected, such plans to be of a character which will enable the Pligh Commissioner to cause the ownership of the said lands to be ascertained. Pipe-line to The pipe-line shall terminate in Acre Bay, provided that if it terminate in be found impracticable for the pipe-line to terminate in the locality Acre Bay. aforesaid it shall terminate at such point on the coast of Palestine as may be agreed between the High Commissioner and the Com• pany. Pipe-lines to If the Company desire to lay more than one pipe-line, the pipe• be contiguous. lines laid by the Company shall be contiguous, provided that the Company may, if it be found necessary to lay pipe-lines which are not contiguous, lay such pipe-lines after having first submitted such plans as aforesaid and obtained the consent of the High Commis• sioner to lay pipe-lines in accordance with the said plans, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, or delayed. Surrender of At the expiration of the Concession the rights granted to the property at Company under this Convention shall determine and all the im• expiration of movable property of the Company and all fixtures in Palestine, Concesssion. which property and fixtures are part of the undertaking, shall be• come the property of the High Commissioner free of charge, pro- d June, 1939 THE PALESTINE GAZETTE vided that on or before the expiration of the Concession, should the Company so desire, the High Commissioner undertakes to consider sympathetically an extension or renewal of the Concession on terms to be agreed, and provided further that the High Commissioner may require the Company to remove on the expiration of the Con­ cession any of the said fixtures, other than the pipe-line or pipe­ lines, which the High Commissioner may reasonably require the Company to remove.