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'File 2/5 VII SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.' [‎24r] (52/494)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (243 folios). It was created in 5 Jun 1932-15 Jul 1936. 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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in the wheels of inconvenient litigants, they have not the
slightest intention of taking any overt action that might be
politically embarrassing to them. If therefore we are to
wait for a comprehensive settlement, all open and above board,
it looks as if we shall wait indefinitely. If it were
possible to keep the Sheikh of Koweit waiting indefinitely
for his money, we should have nothing to say; but assuming
that sooner or later we shall have to pay him, whether the
possession difficulty has been tidied up or not, we had better
pay him sooner, for the reason mentioned in my letter of the
17th January.
5. Clearly we cannot pay him without getting from the
Iraqis a formal assurance with regard to provisos (a) and (b)
referred to above. We think, however, that the Iraqis might
be willing to give assurances on these points, since to do so
would not involve any overt action that might be made the
subject of criticism in Iraq. The suggestion we put forward
is therefore that the Ambassador might again approach the
Iraqi Government on the following lines.
6 . Referring to the note of the 28th January, he might
say that it is now evident that a final sdution of the
possession question cannot be looked for at an early date.
Since the Sheikhs remain in effective possession of their
gardens, (apart from the Bashiyah section) and since we know
that we can rely on the promise made by King Feisal and
solemnly renewed by King Ghazi, delay does not in practice
involve any grave consequences so far as possession is
concerned. On the other hand, settlement of the taxation
question does not brook delay, as the Sheikhs are paying
annually considerable sums in taxation from which they have
been promised exemption. His Majesty 1 s Government are
prepared to settle this question, but before doing so they
must have formal assurances on points (a) and (b). If they
can/

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The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, in southern Iraq. In particular, the correspondence concerns the service of judicial documents emanating from the Iraqi Government on the Shaikh of Kuwait in connection with his ownership of the gardens. 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. in Kuwait and the British Ambassador in Baghdad mediate the talks between the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Iraqi Government in order to resolve the issue. The correspondence also concerns the action of the Basra Port Authorities in regards to the stakes they have driven into the strip of land which is part of the Shaikh’s Faw property, the suggestion made by British Officials to the Shaikh to give as a gift a piece of his land at Faw to the Government of Iraq, and the Shaikh’s complaints against the Iraqi Government for putting obstacles in the way of his agents and officials administrating his properties.

The volume includes records of meetings held at the Foreign Office, London, to discuss the questions of possession and title of the Shaikh of Kuwait, the liability of the Shaikhs’ properties to Iraqi taxation, and the British Government’s proposals for a comprehensive settlement of the date gardens issue.

The volume’s core correspondence covers March- July 1936. The earlier start date given to the volume is a result of correspondence by the British Embassy Baghdad, which includes the English text of the Iraqi Land Settlement Law of 1932 (ff 145-155), which is dated 5 June 1932.

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1 volume (243 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 245; 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 additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 6-240, and ff 66-240; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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