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Coll 29/73 'Ahwaz: grant of compensation to the Shaikh of Mohammerah on account of money he advanced towards the building of a consulate at Ahwaz' [37r] (75/331)
The record is made up of 1 file (164 folios). It was created in 3 Aug 1933-4 Sep 1936. It was written in English. 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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property »fidl evicting thea from lt f or otherwise disturbing
their possession of it, after they had bought it in good
faith. It ia for this reason, and for this reason alone,
that His Majesty’s Government wish to have an undertaking
from the Sheikh with regard to his claim to ownership of
the site and, unless® he is able to give this limited
undertaking His Majesty 9 s Government regret that they will he
unable to pay him anything whatever in respect of the site
either now or later, except his share of the trifling proceeds
of the sale of the unused materials which were lying on it.
As Sheikh Khaaal is aware, Hia Majesty’s Government in the
United Kingdom and the Oovemmen of India do not admit that
they are under any legal obligation to pay him anything at all.
The Sheikh’e signing the suggested undertaking which would
not be published to anybody except officials of His f'ajesty’a
Government, would not preclude hie taking any action he might
think fit to establish his claim to the property before it
had been bought by His Majesty’s Government, nor would it
afterwards preclude hie suing the vendor for damages. It
would only preclude his acting against His Majesty’s
Government - a contingency which would be most unlikely to
arise *md probably could not in any event do so under Persian
law.
5. The precise fora of the undertaking must, of course,
depend on local law but should be in general accordance with
the following draft end should not depart from it in any
materiel particular unless you are satisfied that the essential
alms of His jeety’s Government in the United Kingdom end
of the Government of India can be attained by the altered fora.
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The file concerns the British Consulate site and buildings at Ahwaz, rented from the Shaikh of Mohammerah.
The file covers:
- affairs of Shaikh of Mohammerah with the Persian Government, 1933
- payment of compensation to Shaikh of Mohammerah for the loss of a sum of money advanced by him in 1924 for the construction of the new Ahwaz Consulate buildings, 1934
- disposal of Consulate building materials at Ahwaz, 1933
- death of Shaikh of Mohammerah, 1936
- late Sheikh of Mohammerah's property in Kuwait, 1936.
The file is composed of correspondence between the Shaikh of Mohammerah, the British Legation at Tehran, the Foreign Office, 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 Treasury, the Office of Works, and 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. at Kuwait.
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- 1 file (164 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 166; 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.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/3649
- Title
- Coll 29/73 'Ahwaz: grant of compensation to the Shaikh of Mohammerah on account of money he advanced towards the building of a consulate at Ahwaz'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r, back-i, back, 2v:159v, 162r:165r
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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