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'File 53/11 XIX (D 163) Kuwait Date Gardens' [178r] (380/494)
The record is made up of 1 volume (238 folios). It was created in 4 Apr 1940-10 Oct 1942. 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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the Embassy and had an interview with Major Holt and we
explainea the matter to him and told him that the Lawyer Yusuf
al Kabeer was not willing to act as our Lawyer, because his
he<uluh does not help him to ta^e up such a difficult case and he,
being our legal La.^er, agreed to asK the Court to postpone the
case ana uhcxt he, lusuf al Kabeer, advised us to appoint the
Lawyer Nasrat al Faresi, and that we have orders from His
Highness the father, to appoint no any other Lawyer besides
Yusuf al r^abeer, unless we consult you first. We asiced him if
he agrees upon the appointment of the Lawyer Nasrat al Faresi,
ue said, yes, I do agree to appoint the Lawyer Nasrat al Faresi,
So we wished him goodbye and went to meet the Lawyer Nasrat al
Faresi, but we aid not see him that time. On "Che second day we
met him and asked him if he was prepared to be our Lawyer, He
agreed in the begiming provided that there would be no legal
obstacles in his way. He said,"Sulaiman Shawaf had sometime
back, asked me to communicate with the Ministry of Finance
regarding the declaration of the Settlement at Fao and I don f t
remember whether I referred to the Ministry of Finance or not".
He asked us to see him to-morrow morning and so we went to him
on the next day and reached an agreement regarding his charges
which are to be ID,150/-, He told us that he was not prepared
to accept neither money nor the documents, being afraid that he
had any reference to this case, but he was going to s^udy the
case carefully and will let us Know of the result on 9th June,
when he will have finished studying the case, I, therefore,
wrote a letter to Major Holt explaining to him how far we went
with the case, as you can make out from the enclosure.
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding date gardens in southern Iraq owned by Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, the ruler of Kuwait. In particular, the correspondence concerns the Government of Iraq's decision to end the immunity from taxation (on the gardens) that had been granted by the British Government to the former ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ in return for his military support against the Ottoman Empire in World War 1.
The file contains translations of correspondence between Shaikh Aḥmad and his son (and representative in Iraq) Shaikh Mohamed [Muḥammad] as well as correspondence between British officials and the Iraqi government regarding the ongoing legal dispute concerning ownership of the gardens.
The file contains a letter (ff. 7-13) from Charles Geoffrey Prior, the British Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. to Shaikh Aḥmad which includes details of the British government's settlement offer to him as compensation for loss of earnings since the Iraqi government ended his immunity from taxation in 1932. The letter asks for him to a sign a form that formally discharges the British government from liability for taxation losses and contains a draft copy of such a form.
The file also contains correspondence about a forthcoming change in the Iraqi land settlement law concerning the ownership of land by foreigners as well as correspondence regarding a court summons issued by Iraq against a number of members of the Al Sabah family including Shaikh Aḥmad (ff. 89-91).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (238 folios)
- Arrangement
File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.
An index of the topics discussed in the file is contained on folio 1A.
- Physical characteristics
A bound correspondence volume.
The file has an incomplete pagination sequence and a complete foliation sequence. The complete foliation sequence is written in pencil in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins with the index of topics contained in the file, on number 1 and ends on number 230, on the last folio of writing.
The file contains the following foliation errors: 1 and 1A.
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- IOR/R/15/1/501
- Title
- 'File 53/11 XIX (D 163) Kuwait Date Gardens'
- Pages
- 177r:178r
- Author
- āl-Ṣabāḥ, Shaikh Muḥammad bin Aḥmad
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