Show OIL ml EXCLUSION FOR AMERICANS HElD State Department Publishes Publishes Pub Pub- lishes British Annoe ement e- e ment Queen Victoria Proclamation Invalid WASHINGTON March tj 26 The The tato department has accepted the Assurance 5 of ot the British government govern govern- P. P ment t that th a proclamation alleged to z be been D signed In 1884 by Queen t and an agreement purport ito to have been rondo mado by Great a year car later In relation to In Burma Durma are spurious two documents In n a report d three years eara ago to the enate nate b by the state department verc vr declared to have e expressly ox- ox American oil companies I Burma Secretary Hughes In Identical to Secretary Work tr Interior department Secre- Secre It tty Hoover Hoo of ar the commerce de- de and the federal trado made public today aid that tho the British government n oV stated that these documents m re spurious and this statement ns een accepted by the state slate de- de Ir 11 Irn t n report to the senate In larch farch 1920 tho state department tho the proclamation as Inu Inc The secretary of or state expressed ic 10 e belief that although the VIc VIc- proclamation was spurious they her r statements made in the de- de nent's 1920 report to the sen- sen lente te Ic w were re substantially correct They ras reas ns follows In India no prospecting license licenser r p lea lease so can be granted otherwise ian tan according to the rules sum- sum below except with the pr pre pre- lous bus sanction of ot the the secretary of ot I state for India in council or with general under I that of ot tho the governor authority delegated to him by the I secretary of ot state for India In coun coun- cil cli A certificate of approval or a a. prospecting license or a a. mining lease leano shall be granted only to a a. British subject or to a 4 British controlled controlled con con- con I trolled company It would seem scent that the tho regulations preclude the the sale of ot concessions or leases to foreigners foreigners for tor eigners although this Is not specifically ape ape- stated ted Mr Hughes said that In a memorandum memorandum memo memo- on the petroleum situation published by the British Gov govern government rn- rn I ment and submitted to the American Amerlean Amer Amer- lean ican government on July 27 1921 j jIt it was stated with respect to India that prospecting or mining leases have been In practice granted only I Ito I to British subjects or to companies controlled by British subjects On I August 30 last he added the state department was informed by the British foreign office that there was no foundation for the tho report that Great Britain Intended to remove such restrictions I I |