'File II. IRAQ (3) Vol. 1 Shaikh of Kuwait's Date Gardens on the Shatt-al Arab. (Kuwait's relations with Turkish Govt. and Turkish demand that Kuwaitis should take out Turkish Nationality Certificates)' [‎106r] (223/636)

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the greatest strictnes ha.3 beerx observed <ind i
l nsisted
upon in a. matters which the l.^ws reqniro that nationali-
in
-ty should be proved • In the case of land transfers
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this(is the erson^ desiring the tran
to h!s name prodtidn? his certificate of Txirkis
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- i ty * This law which i :.ndv.rstand iv notrane
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sfer
h Nationa' —
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any means used to be freely evaded under the o3d regime
and with com arativv. case* UiCv~ttyC<eu- Uu—
^. 7^ transfer of the Fadha^iya property tiHerv^h
originally prevented for political reasons, these have
now bt.cn sufficiently explained by the present
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not to exist , in so far that he has satisfied himself
that the purchase was/xrot effected with British sold •
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Accordinglythe/asked the authorities in Gonttantino..c
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and 'this Y^pU&t/'
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to rescind thejr previous order of suspensinn ,
hao been dwrc—r. It was to this that lette ^j
it No C-26 dated the 11th May 1910 referred. The crux of
the position now is that the law does not allow of a legil
transfer without the admis ion of Turkish nationality
and the Wali would sc^m to be perfectly correct in h*s
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attitude when he infr.m. IM barak that he may effect the
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transfer to-morrow if he wishes but that ih£. l*,w requires
the production of a "teskereh" Of Turkish nationality
. to
by the person £« whose name the transfer is to lx made.
His Majesty’s Consul at Basra may b*. able to verify if
thi s view is substantial, y correct*
on the transfer bein^ made
With regard to the Wali insisting Vimii///
•fi the names of Sheikh Mubarak’s four oons I am informed
fry the Sheikh’s oecrotary that thi / — pi-SSimk ,h ^h
the fact that when the property was first purchased,
the sheikh desired it to be registered in the name* of hla
°ns and the c : ^j£ry ar angemnotsj w
made accordingly until the whole matter was stojpped
by the orders of suspension from Constantinople * Since
then the Sheikh has cnanged hie mind and wishes! the proper //
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