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'File 2/4 II TAXATION of SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.' [13r] (30/448)
The record is made up of 1 volume (220 folios). It was created in 1 Jan 1931-19 Dec 1932. 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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^ina-ily, Nuri Pac. .. • i announced publicly in Basrah
that it was the intention of the ’Iraq Government to end
this exemptibn, and had no•mated a committee of fxve
persons to carry out an assessment of the properties. I
believe that, as a matter of fact, some of the persons whom
TJuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
nominated refused to act. yho-.v the Wx.ole
matter was one of common knowledge and gossip in Basrah,
and everyone knew the efforts that ’Iraq were making, and
was n.iso aware that up to the present T Tis Majesty’s Govern
ment had intervened on tie Shaikh’s behalf. If now it was
known, as it would be, that His Majesty’s Government
had authorised an assessment, then, everyone would at once
jump to the conclusion that the British authorities have
yielded and Hurl
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
had won the day and the Shaikh felt
that his personal "izzat” was involved in the issue.
The Shaikh admitted frnakly that it was a
question of what he regarded as his personal prestige, and
I cannot help feeling a good deal of sympathy w±th him
in the matter. The action of the ’Iraq authorities has
been not merely tactless, but offensive. Hurl Himself
admitted that he had threatened the Shaikh with forcible
expropriation in order to bring him to a suitable frame
of mind. However, I finally got the Shaikh to agree
to an assessment if a representative of yours or a
British officer of some sort, preferably an official from
Bagndad, was associated wiit. Do you think it would
be feasible to arrange this? It seems to rae that Nuri
might oe reminded that in Young’s letter flo.P,0.197 of
the 2nd September 1930 to Ja’far
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, we particularly
asked that the negotiations should jsxfc be carried out in
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The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, and the Shaikh of Mohammerah, Khaz'al al-Ka'bi, in southern Iraq. In particular, the correspondence concerns the Government of Iraq's intention to end the immunity from taxation (on the gardens) that had been granted to the former ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ, and the Shaikh of Mohammerah by the British Government in return for their military support against the Ottoman Empire in the First World War.
The correspondence is mainly between British officials discussing the possible solutions to the gardens taxation issue. Among the suggested solutions was the selling of the property. British officials report that the Shaikh of Kuwait is entirely flexible in regards to the selling of certain estates but not the ones in Al-Faw. But they also suggested that it would be rather useless for the Iraq Government to attempt to purchase the gardens as they belong to more than a hundred relatives of the Shaikh who depend on the produce for their maintenance.
The volume includes statements of an estimated value of the Shaikh of Kuwait’s estates on Shatt al-Arab. It also contains economic reports on the proposed new basis of taxation on agricultural produce in Iraq, and copies of the Government of Iraq’s new laws for the collection of consumption ( Istihlak ) tax and for the collection of land rent and water rent (ff 79-101). The correspondence also includes records of meetings held in London in regard to the question of the taxations as well as the new system of land revenue collections in Iraq.
The main correspondence is between the British Resident, 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 High Commissioner, Baghdad, and the Colonial Office, Downing Street, London.
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- 1 volume (220 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 222; 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 present in parallel; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. One of these additional sequences has been crossed out.
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- IOR/R/15/5/136
- Title
- 'File 2/4 II TAXATION of SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:65v, 69r:123v, 125r:145v, 147r:188v, 190r:214v, 217r:221v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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