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‘File 15/15 Rules & Regulations Nationality Laws of Iraq & Saudi Arabia’ [‎14r] (27/162)

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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ROYAL IRADAH RATIFYING THE AGREEMENT CONCLUDED
BETWEEN BRITISH-INDIA AND 'IRAQ OF THE ONE PART AND
PERSIA OF THE OTHER PART FOR THE CLOSING OF FOREIGN
POST OFFICES EXISTING ON PERSIAN TERRITORY.
We, have issued this OUR ROYAL 1RADA.
Pursuant to the proposal of the Minister of Communications and Works and with thp-
concurrence of the Council of Ministers.
(1) For the ratification of the agreement concluded at Bushire on the 9th December,
1922 between Our Government and the Government of India and the Government of His
Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia for the closing 1 of Foreign Post Offices existing on
Persian Territory.
(2) For the ratification of the following agreements executed in pursuance of Article III
of the said agreement :
A. Agreement dated 9th December, 1922 concerning the exchange of Parcels between
Persia and 'Iraq.
B. Agreement dated 9th December, 1922 concerning the exchange of Value-payable
Parcels between Persia and 'Iraq.
C. Agreement dated 9th December, 1922 concerning the exchange of Money Orders
between Persia and 'Iraq.
The Minister of Communications and Works is charged with the execution of this Irada.
Made at Baghdad, the Capital of Our Kingdom, in duplicate, sealed with Our seal and
signed with Our name and the name of Our Prime Minister and the Minister of Communica
tions and Works on the twenty-forth day of Eamadhan, 1342, the twenty-eighth day of April,
1924; one copy to be kept in the records of Our Government and the other copy to be delivered
to the Exalted Government of Persia.
(Signed) FAISAL.
(Sealed) FAISAL ibn HUSAIN.
Minister of Commns. $ Works, Prime Minister,
(Signed) SABIH. (Signed) JA'FAE AL 'ASKARI.
AGREEMENT.
■Concluded between Brtish India and 'Iraq of the one part and Persia of the other part for the
closing of Foreign Post Offices existing on Persian Territory.
With a view to making the reciprocal position of British India, 'Iraq and Persia coa-
fonn to the provisions of the Principal Convention of Madrid (1920) and to the regulations
thereunder, in the matter of postal relations between Persia and the first mentioned countries,
the undersigned, acting in virtue of the powers with which they are furnished and which they
have communicated to each other.
After confirmation by the representative of the Imperial Persian Government of the assur
ances given by this Government on the subject of the maintenance and development of
adequate postal services in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and in Arabistan have concluded the following
agreement: —
Article 1.
The offices maintained in the Port^ of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. by the Postal Administration ot
British India, and in Arabistan by the Postal Administration of 'Iraq will be closed from
31st March 1923, and will in consequence have ceased all public or private postal operations
from the 1st April following.
Article 11.
From 1st April 1923, the Persian Postal Administration will charge itself exclusively
with the care of and responsibility for the maintenance and development of regular postal
services in the Persian Ports of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and in Arabistan, both those concerning the
relations of Persia with foreign countries and those which concern internal postal communica
tions!.
Article 111.
In order to give effect to the provisions of Article 2 above the Persian Postal Administra
tion will organise and maintain from 1st April next the special postal exchange services agreed
upon with British India and 'Iraq in the following arrangements, concluded by the under
signed on the date of the present agreement: —
1. Arrangements concerning the exchange of Money Orders between the two countries.
2. Arrangements concerning the exchange of Value Payable artides of all kinds, with
British India, and of non-insured value Payable Parcels with 'Iraq.

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The file contains a public notice and the following correspondence about Iraqi and Iranian nationality laws:

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.
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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
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