'File 19/116 VIII (C 34) Bahrain Miscellaneous' [‎21r] (43/124)

includinp; ^aqf aud property of daceaaed psraors socotinas
held in trust for nir ^ors.
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The Bahrein Covermnent inforia me that no intereference
i3 rade by then in "-aqf" property. It is registered by the
Land Department so that in case of dispute or logs of
documents the Government may have some documents to which
they m»^ refer. The administration of ^Taqfs" is, as it
has
s I t/ays kasz beer, in the hands of the Qatihis or und -r
:Jie supervision of those persons in whose favour the TTT a jf
has been made.
The Bahrein Government remark that under other
rusulman Governments ^aqfs are manage* by a special
department of the Government. In Bahrein it ia found that
many^aqfs* which are interred for the upkeep of mosques or
the feeclinf: of the poor, benefit neither the mosques nor the
roor.
w ith r®p:«r«l to the registra of the est,at9 3 of
rtsoeaseil persons th® Bahrein State inforn. ne that gross
abBBesabst, abuses existed fornerly in th- atinim strati on of
eststes of deoessetl persons. The Governiaent now require^
deaths to be reported, but. if the deceased leaves a will
the heir, carry out the division of the property, if no will
exists the Government gupervisejf the division aooording to
3Mra law, and whera the heirs ere ninors they i. 9 Governrent
en oavour to saferujt.rd the interests of the nlnors. -any
cases existed formerly in which persons die« and left no wills
or left minor heirs and in which the estates were scandalously
nisapnropriated by those who ware supposed to look after the
interests o- the ntoiore. It was found that suds of noney in
the bands of person purpoting to be holding nonies for ninors
decreased to such an extent that by the tine the ninors becare
of a^e there was no noney left to be divided anongst then.
Bahrein covernrient inforn re that debtor, co ti fined
iK !,rl80n 0n the * Pnll0ati ^ ^ creditors are n a de to
<0 ,,!0 V ' 0rkli " 9 orimlnala. T are neither shackled nor