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Coll 15/4 'Internal Affairs: financial situation' [‎18r] (35/246)

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The record is made up of 1 file (121 folios). It was created in 6 Oct 1937-18 Oct 1944. 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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465/1/38.
(J 2192/42/16)
BRITISH EMBASSY,
CAIRO.
16th May, 1938.
Dear Bill,
In paragraph 32 (f) of my despatch No. 491
of the 2nd May, 1958, transmitting the text of three new
draft fiscal laws, the words "ground rent" were used as
a translation of "hekr". On reconsideration of the
matter I am not quite happy about this translation.
"Hekr" is a term applied to land owned by the Ministry
of akfs (pious endowments) and leased to private
individuals for building or other purposes. A clause in
the contract stipulates that after a given period of time
the Ministry of bakfs has the right to reclaim possession
of the land and to demand the demolition of any buildings
on it.
Will you, therefore, be good enough to have the
words "ground rent" replaced by the words "hekr right"
in the three places where they occur in the paragraph
in question.
Yours &c.,
(Signed) Miles W. Lampson.
V. Cavendish-Bentinck, Lsq. ,
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.l.

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The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and a booklet relating to the financial situation of the Egyptian Government and the process of fiscal reform.

Included in the file is:

  • a copy (ff 20-90) of the booklet 'Projet de reforme du regime fiscal' published by the Egyptian Government, Ministry of Finance, Fiscal Commission
  • a letter (ff 104-110) from the Financial Secretary of the Sudan Government on the impact of a reduction in subsidy by the Egyptian Government

The file features the following principal correspondents: HM Ambassador to Egypt and the Sudan (Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson); the Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs; the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Viscount Halifax); and the Financial Secretary, Sudan Government.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 file (121 folios)
Arrangement

The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 123; 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. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence between ff 20-97.

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