Other (i.e Huleh & Dead Sea) Concessions in Palestine before 1948 (Nakba), British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 974. Chapter XXV: Concessions and Mining : Section 1: Concessions : (c)

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Corporation concession (a) to prevent any person or company from generating electrical energy to be used by them exclusively for the sole purposes of lighting or heating their own premises or for the supply of energy to the machinery on such premises," provided that no such electrical energy is sold or disposed of for the benefit of third parties or for public purposes; and (b) to prevent the High Commissioner from generating electrical energy and supplying it for Government offices or works or to a Government servant. Somewhat similar conditions apply to the Jerusalem concession.

(c) Other concessions

10. The Huleh. Concession. The terms of this concession, granted in June, 1914, by the Turkish Government to Mohammed Etiendi Omar Beyhoun and Michael Effendi Sursock for the drainage of Lake Huleh and the adjacent marshes and subsequently transferred in 1918 to the Syro-Ottoman Agricultural Company and in 1934 to the Palestine Development Company, and the problem of the development of the concession are discussed on pp. 257-9 of the Royal Commission's report and also in section 3 of chapter X of this survey. The boundaries of the areas reserved for cultivators and of those not so reserved within the concession area were determined by the Huleh Concession (Boundaries) Ordinance, 1938*.

11. The Dead Sea concessions. On 1st January, 1930 a concession was granted by the High Commissioner for Palestine and Trans-Jordan to Palestine Potash Limited for the extraction of salts and minerals in the Dead Sea. The authorised share capital of the Company is £P.l,000,000. The concession grants to the Company certain concession lands and the right to obtain by evaporation or otherwise the mineral salts, minerals and chemicals in and beneath the waters of the Sea or left exposed by recession of the water from its limits at the date of the concession. The concession also gives the Company the right to navigate vessels on the Dead Sea for purposes of the Company's business and to bore for fresh water or obtain fresh water from the Jordan (except for the purpose of generating electricity and subject to existing rights of user). The period of the concession is 75 years. Under clause 25 of the concession the Government shall, if required, grant permission to the Company to construct an aerial ropeway from the Dead Sea either to the railway outside Jerusalem or to
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* Laws of 1938, Vol. I, page 9.

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