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‘File 15/15 Rules & Regulations Nationality Laws of Iraq & Saudi Arabia’ [10r] (19/162)
The record is made up of 1 file (80 folios). It was created in 14 Sep 1926-5 Jan 1943. 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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INDECENT OR OBSCEXE MATTER.
Any Indecent or obscene printing- Photograph,
Lithograph
A lithograph is an image reproduced from a printing plate whose image areas attract ink and non-image areas repel it.
engraving, book or card or any
other indecent or obscene articles any letter, newspaper or packet having on it any words,
marks or designs of an indecent, obscene scurrilous, seditious, threatening or of grossly oft'ensive
nature.
ARTICLES SPECIALLY PROHIBITED FROM EXPORT.
The export out of 'Iraq by the foreign letter post of the undermentioned articles is
specially prohibited: —
1. Feathers or skins of all birds other than domestic birds, except: —
(а) Feathers of ostriches.
(б) Feathers exported bona fide as specimens illustrative of Natural History.
2. Antiquities as defined in Proclamation dated at Baghdad 22nd May, 1917 except
under license to be granted by the Minister of Communications and Works.
3. Russian Rouble Notes.
4. Celluloid and articles made wholly or partly of celluloid, such as cinematograph and
photogTaphic films.
5. Currency Notes except under a license granted by the Director of Customs and Excise,
and the Post Office shall not be held responsible for their loss or destruction.
Article — 2. The following articles etc. should not be transmitted by Foreign Parcel Post: —
1. Obscene or immoral articles.
2. Explosive, inflammable or dangerous substances; arms, live animals or insects unless
properly protected.
3. Opium, Morpia, Cocaine and other narcotics, this prohibition does not apply to paresis
of this kind forwarded for medical purposes to countries which admit them under conditions.
4. Any articles specially prohibited from importation into the particular country or
colony to which it is addressed.
5. Letters or communications which constitute an actual or personal correspondence as well
as letters of any kind bearing an address other than that of the addressee of the parcel.
It is permissible to enclose in any parcel an open invoice confined to the particulars which
constitute an invoice and also a sample copy of the address of the parcel with the addition of
the address of the sender.
ARTICLES SPECIALLY PROHIBITED FROM THE EXPORT BY PARCEL POST.
1. Feathers or skins of all birds other than domestic birds except: —
{a) Feathers of Ostriches.
(6) Feathers exported hona-fide as specimens illustrative of Natural History.
2. Antiquities as defined in Proclamation dated Baghdad 22nd May, 1917 except ander
license to be granted by the Minister of Communications and Works.
3. Russian Rouble ^votes.
4 Specie except under license granted by a Collector of Customs and Excise and the Pofet
Office shall not be held responsible for their '. gss or destruction.
Article 4. This Law shall be brought into force with effect from 1st April, 1924.
The Minister of Communications and Works is charged with the execution of this Law.
Made at Baghdad this 24th Sha'ban, 1342 and the 30th March, 1924.
FAISAL.
Minister of Communication and Works, Frune Minister,
SABIH. , J A'FAR-AL-ASKARI.
LAW FOR THE RATES OF COMMISSION OF INLAND MONEY ORDERS.
We the KING of 'IRAQ.
Pursuant to the proposal of the Minister of Communications and Works, and with tht>
concurrence of the Council of Ministers, oidei <i> follows.
Article 1. .
The Law issued on 19th April, 1922 connected with the Post Office rates on Inland Money
Orders shall be abolished.
Article 2.
The rate of commission on Inland Money Order shall be two annas on every ten
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
or fraction thereof, with effect from L-t April. 1924.
Article 3. .
The Minister of Communications and Works, is charged with the execution of this
Made at Baghdad this 8th day of April, 1924 and the 4th day of Ramadhan, 1342.
FAISAL.
Minister of Communications and Works, Prime Minister,
SABIH. J A'FAR AL ASKART.
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The file contains a public notice and the following correspondence about Iraqi and Iranian nationality laws:
- A circular memorandum dated 1927 from the British High Commissioner for Iraq, Baghdad, about the effect of the Iraq Nationality Law upon foreigners born in Iraq, so that the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain and others could give further publication to the fact that the Iraq Government had provisionally extended up to 31 December 1927, the period during which renunciation of Iraq nationality could be made by persons already of age, who were born in Iraq and whose fathers were born and resident in Iraq;
- A public notice in English and Arabic dated 1927, issued by the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain, advising eligible Iraqis of the extended period during which they might relinquish Iraq nationality;
- A memorandum from the Political Officer, Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , Sharjah dated 1940, enquiring about the liability to conscription of certain travellers from Bahrain to Iraq and Iran, under the Iraq and Iranian nationality laws of 1924 and 1929 respectively;
- A circular letter and despatch from the British Ambassador to Iraq, Baghdad, in 1942, about persuading the Iraqi Government to lower the residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. fees levied on foreigners living in Iraq, under the Iraq Stamp Law, including an exemption for British and British Indian subjects;
- A letter from the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain dated 1943, enquiring about subjects from the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Sheikdoms living in Iraq, also being exempted from Iraq residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. fees.
The file also contains English translations of the following laws and regulations:
- Compilation of laws and regulations issued between 1st January 1924 and 31st December, 1925 , published by the Government of Iraq, Ministry of Justice, Baghdad, 1926;
- The Hijaz (Hejaz) Nationality Law, 1926;
- The Saudi Arabian Nationality Regulation No.3, 1938;
- Iraqi Law No.40 of 1942, amending the Iraq Stamp Law No.30 of 1922.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (80 folios)
- Arrangement
File papers are arranged chronologically. They are followed by file notes (folio 80) which include a list of documents in the file, together with their unique document reference number to help identify them. The list sometimes records the earlier, secondary folio number of the document also, to help locate it in the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: numbered 1-37, 37A, 38-81. The numbering is written in pencil in the top right corner of the folio and encircled. The numbering starts at the front of the file, on the file cover (f 1) and ends on the inside cover at the back of the file (f 81). Folio 37A is blank. In an earlier and incomplete secondary foliation sequence, folios 57 to 79 are also numbered 6 to 29 in pencil in the top right corner.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/2/1457
- Title
- ‘File 15/15 Rules & Regulations Nationality Laws of Iraq & Saudi Arabia’
- Pages
- 2r:37v, 37r:37v, 38r:57v
- Author
- Government of Iraq
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