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File 1855/1904 Pt 10 'Koweit:- Relations with Turkey. Sheikh's properties at Fao and Fadaghia' [‎112v] (224/398)

The record is made up of 199 folios. It was created in 12 Jan 1908-18 Sep 1912. It was written in English and French. 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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of the money, and these receipts will be deductions from the total of the real
sanad written by me to the order of Abdul Wahab Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , as it has been
mentioned above. And certainly the area of the land and the surrounding of
which the quantity has been set forth, as a total, is completely suitable to the
measuremmt which the people of information, appointed and reliable in mv
sight, carried out, and upon it has the agreement been fixed, and the sale is a
true one, and has been completed between the two parties. Then there is no
(room for) talk nor spoiling. And it is certainly necessary that all the ex
penses and the taxes of Government for the performance of the business of
the registration and the freeing return upon me and there is nothing of them
on the sellers. And if there is delay in the progressing of the business aforesaid
that will be no reason of the reasons to injure what has been fixed by this
agreement; and we, the two parties, who have drawn up this agreement have
agreed and promised that if there fell any abstention or contrariety between us
in the matter of this agreement, then we shall be compelled that we shall
settle between us three men of the most excellent Mussulmen for the seitle
ment between us of every kind of contrariety and for the sake of strengthen
ing and the issuing of the matters settled by ihis agreement and the settlement
which is given from them in the agreement, or in the multiplication shall be a
universal settlement upon us without necessity for the reference and wei-hin-
and taat who goes out from it is contrary to his promises contained in this
agreement then be shall be compelled with the punishment of damages and
expenses of the other without necessity for a complaint or lawsuit. On that
also it is left to the opinion of the arbitrators whose appointment has been
made a condition of this agreement as has been mentioned above • and this
agreement nas been written in two parts and each party has received one
counterpart to act according to it. J icuciveu one
'W ritten on the fourth dav of Thi al TTai i TTn'i
there be complete blessing and high congratufation^ ^ ^
ment.
Seal of Sheikh Mubarak as Subah al Jabir as Subah, Accepting the agree-
Verified at Koweit.
The 1st
S. G. KNOX, Major,
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. , Koiceit.
1909.
Witnesses.
KAHAD AL ABDUL RAHMAN AD DAWAIRAJ.
NASIR BIN YUSUF AL BADAR.
MUHAMMAD BIN FAHAD AL KHASHRAM,
fahad al khalid.

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The papers concern relations between Shaikh Mubarak [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], Ruler of Koweit [Kuwait] and the Government of Turkey [the Ottoman Empire]; particularly in regard to the purchase by the Shaikh of date gardens at Fao [Al Fāw] on the Shatt-al-Arab, and property at Fadaghia, near Fao, both of which were in Turkish territory. In both cases, the Turkish authorities insisted that the Shaikh should first register himself as an Ottoman subject before they would allow the legal formalities of ownership to be completed.

The principal correspondents are the 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. (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox); 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. , Kuwait (Major Stuart George Knox; from 1909 Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear); the British Consul at Basrah (also referred to as Bussorah) [Basra] (Francis Edward Crow); the British Ambassador at Constantinople (Sir Gerald Augustus Lowther); Shaikh Mubarak; and senior officials of the 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. , the Government of India, and the Foreign Office.

The papers cover: papers concerning the Fao property, including the Shaikh's appeals for a committee of inquiry and arbitration over the matter, January 1908 - July 1909 (folios 115-199); papers concerning the Fadaghia property, February 1909 - December 1910 (folios 6-114); Foreign Office paper containing a memorandum communicated to the Turkish Ambassador concerning the Bagdad railway question and other matters, July 1911 (folios 4-5); and correspondence concerning a false report in a Turkish newspaper that an allowance had been granted by the Turkish Government to Shaikh Mubarak, May-July 1912 (folios 2-3).

The French language content of the papers is confined to three folios of newspaper extracts (folios 133-135).

The date range gives the covering dates of all the documents contained in the papers; the covering dates of the Secret Department minute papers that enclose them, as given on folio 1, are 1908-1912.

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File 1855/1904 Pt 10 'Koweit:- Relations with Turkey. Sheikh's properties at Fao and Fadaghia' [‎112v] (224/398), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/51/2, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100037401202.0x000022> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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