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'File 53/75 (D 156) Shaikh Khazal's Claim against Kuwaiti Merchants' [48r] (104/140)
The record is made up of 1 volume (65 folios). It was created in 26 Apr 1930-20 Aug 1931. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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■D I
Basra ^
m July 9 1931 pt.)
I tainK it necessary to report the result of my recent visit
l .0 Kuwait. I went there a few days ago,end the first thing I
did was to refer to Mullah Salih,the Sheikhas secretary,to
demand the payment of a claim amounting to Rs 24482,8. due
by Mohammad al Marzuq,a merchant of Kuwait,who resides at
Karachi while his son represents him at Kuwait. I have heen
pursuing this debtor up hill and down dale during the last
two years,"but he has successfully evaded me. One cannot take
| any e - f ective measures in Kuwait such cases because there is
no law in Kuwait.When I refer to Sheikh Ahmed on such questions
he is extremely profuse in his assurances of his co -operation,
out these do not appear to mean anything. The debtor's son
will contend that he has no instructions from his father and
Sheikh Ahmed cannot or will not bring pressure to bear upon the
son to make payment or impose attachment on the available
assets of the debtor with 9 view to compelling him to make a
sd i- leiuent. One has therefore to bow down tc the inevitable
&nd suomit to the existing conditions.In connection with this
particular case Sheikh Ahmed had written to me in April last
that the debtor had promised to pay at the end of Dhilhijjah
or during Koharram and assured me that payment would be jisde
in due course "as the man was very reliable". Mullah Salih
at my instance sent a wire to the debtor to send the amount
and received the following reply:—
"Informed Ahmed (his son & representative) paying
six thousand.Particulars posted'.'
This reply was received after my return to Basra and I wrote
to Mullah Salih to receive Rs 6,000 and to remit to me by
draft on a local merchant.I have also written to both Sheikh
Ahmed and Mullah Salih begging them to take action towards
recovering the balance due by the debtor.I now await a reply
from them but this case illustrates the difficulties one has
to face in such matters.
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding debts owed by a number of Kuwaiti merchants to Shaikh Khaz‘al bin Jābir al-Ka‘bī, the former ruler of Mohammerah [Khorramshahr].
The file also contains correspondence between British officials and the ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ and Mirza Mohammad, Khaz'al's agent in Basra which discusses this issue.
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- 1 volume (65 folios)
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File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.
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Condition: A bound correspondence volume.
Foliation: The file's foliation sequence commences at the title page and terminates at the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and can be found in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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