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'File 19/109 VIII (C 68) Bahrain Relations with other Foreign Powers' [‎190r] (390/438)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (211 folios). It was created in 1 May 1935-20 Jun 1937. 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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Droit o ttoman. Vol.VI, p.45 ff.), which defined the quasi-
proprietorial rights of private occupants of land, the
fundamental ownership of which was vested in the State, It
dealt, inter alia, with the nature of the titles, which
occupants could acquire. I do not know whether that legislation
was ever applied in the Hejaz, but there is certainly no
machinery now in existence in this country which could give
effect to its principles, even if the position as regards the
legal character of all titles were not, as Fuad Bey confessed
to me, hopelessly confused.
3, I have embodied a short general account of my
conversation with Fuad Bey in paragraph 7 of the enclosed
memorandum, which I have thought it advisable to circulate to
the posts indicated in it, in view of the repercussions of this
question in various directions.
4. As the enclosed memorandum brings the whole situation
up to date, and as the special question of Eashimite properties
is now the subject of separate telegraphic correspondence, I am
not sending copies of this covering despatch to any other
British authority.
I have, &c.
a M)EEV< ETAlu
Enclosure in No.l
4 "Pircm nn ^tp1 cm Ov.nerS.
hy Sir A ndrew iQ on inicj. ^ ^
TTopert y in the Hena^.
THE Saudi regulationson real property, which w
mentioned in paragraph 841 of the Jedda report for October and
have been referred to in later reports, have proved to be of
wider interest than was anticipated. I au thereiore
of the above posts, although some of them are already fully
or partly aware of the facts.

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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the drafting of a Bahrain nationality law and a law regarding the ownership of property by foreigners in Bahrain. Draft copies of both of the proposed laws are included in the file.

The file also contains documents concerning an RAF intelligence report that stated an Iraq Trade Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. was to be established in Bahrain, a discussion concerning whether or not individuals born in Iraq to Bahraini parents were liable to serve in the Iraqi military and correspondence regarding the ownership of property by foreigners in the Hejaz.

The file also contains correspondence regarding Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa's desire to visit Persia for a hawking trip.

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1 volume (211 folios)
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File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.

There is an index of topics contained in the file on folio 2. The index uses numbers from the uncircled pencil foliation system.

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Formerly a bound correspondence volume, the file's sheets have been unbound and are now loose. Pagination starts on first page of writing in top right-hand corner and continues to last page of writing. Two blank pages at front and two at back. There is another pencilled, uncircled system that begins on folio 3.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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