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'File 2/4 II TAXATION of SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.' [14r] (32/448)
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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out in secrecy and that the emissary should not divulge the
nature of his business to any person other than the two
Shaikhs and Ja’far
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
was told that any publicity would
be likely to have a dama^in^ effect upon the progress of
the negotiations* Jespite this they have _^ven the widest
publicity to the matter, and it is entirely on this account
that the Shaikh is now making difficulties about the
assessment. Secondly, this assessment is bem 0 made with
the object of fixing the liability of the Britxsh Govern
ment, and it seems not unreasonable therefore to ask that
the British Government should be represented on the
assessing committee. In the Shaikh’s eyes it would make
an enormous difference, since the presence cf a British
representative would show the public that the British
Government were still interesting themselves in the matter,
and the Shaikh considera + hat it would make an entirely
different impression on the public mind. I hope therefore
that you will be able to 0 et the ’Iraq, authorities to agree
to this.
I should like you to read through again the letter
addressed by Hamid Beg to the Shaikh, of which a copy was
forwarded to you under my printed letter No.28_T of 8 th
November 1930. The statement contained ~n the first pcrtior
of that letter was not made to Hamid Beg alone, I believe,
but also to other persons who reported the matter to "he
Shaikh. Anyhow unless Nuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
denies the accuracy of
his own emissary’s statement, he has deliberately made a
a
false statement, and it might be/useful argument to use
in getting him to agree to the presence of a British
representative on the assessing committee.
sd/- H. V, Biscoe.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence