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'File 2/5 V SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.' [‎297r] (598/626)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (309 folios). It was created in 30 Aug 1933-30 Apr 1935. 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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him in connection with the Tie it of the IRAq Oust was
launch into Khor aubiyeh and the shooting up of Kuwait
wood-cut'cers* boats.
(e) On the other hand, he did not seem quite able
to appreciate the independent nature of Kuwait, nor
the 11 gun ttalute of the Shaikh.
(f) Nor could he see why the Shaikh would not
settle the garden question, by selling his gardens to
the government.
From Stafford .
(a) He appeared much more sympathetic towards
Kuwait and the Shaikh generally than his Chief, and
admitted that this was perhaps because it had fallen
to his lot to deal with the gardens questions from
the first.
(b) He mentioned in regard to smuggling question
the interesting fact that the Basra Customs were
i
forcing all ship Captains on arrival at Basra to
disclose exactly what proportion of cargo they had
landed at Kuwait.
(o) He admitted also that the £ 60,000 smuggling
figure, fixed on Kuwait by Sievwright was purely
guess work, and not in any way reliable.
8. Lastly Ogilvie Forbes reputed the recent theft
from the Basra Court archives, of the now famous Power of
Attorney given by "AWAsHa" wife of Ahmad Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. al Luhair
in Turkish times, authorizing him to sell her Paddaghlyeh
property to Shaikh Mubarak.
You recollect, no doubt, that this document was
got with much trouble from the Istambul "Somerset House"
Just before the latter was burnt to the ground, and was
later handed over by Gabriel, the Shaikh’s lawyer for safe
keeping to the Basra Court. The document me apparently
was cut up with a scissors - and its loss only accidentally
discovered

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The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Ahmad Al-Jabir Al-Sabah, in southern Iraq. The correspondence concerns the Iraqi Ministry of Justice’s refusal to recognise the Power of Attorney presented to them by the Shaikh of Kuwait’s lawyer in Basra, Jacob Gabriel. It also concerns the following: the Shaikh of Kuwait's ownership of the gardens, the Tapu papers (land deeds) which prove his rights to the date gardens, smuggling, fellaheen Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour. riots at Faw, and tax payments. In the papers, the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs raised their concerns to the British Government that unless the Shaikh accepts the service of judicial documents emanating from the Iraqi Government all cases instituted against him would remain pending.

In the volume, British Officials circulate full lists of the Shaikh’s garden properties in Iraq. They also discuss the Iraqi Government’s request for the Shaikh to appear at the Court in Iraq, and how this could compromise his position as an independent ruler.

The volume also includes correspondence related to the ‘Ujairawiyeh Estate, which had been purchased by Shaikh Mubarak in 1912, and was registered in the name of his daughter Sharifa. The estate later became a shared property between the heirs. Such shared properties raised questions among British officials regarding the Arab custom of holding property in common.

The volume’s core correspondence covers October 1934- April 1935. The earlier start date given to the volume is a result of correspondence by 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. Trenchard Craven William Fowle (f 303), which is dated 30 August 1933. The correspondence is a drawing of a plan showing lands adjacent to Faw depot.

The main correspondence in the volume is between 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. , Bushire, 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, the British Ambassador, Baghdad, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iraq, the Ruler of Kuwait and his Basra lawyer Jacob Gabriel.

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1 volume (309 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 311; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Two previous foliation sequences, one circled and one uncircled, have been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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