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File 4613/1919 Pt 8 'MESOPOTAMIA: ADMINISTRATION: LAND ACQUISITION OF LAND AT MAGIL: INCIDENCE OF COST' [6r] (11/192)
The record is made up of 1 item (93 folios). It was created in 31 Aug 1917-7 Jun 1920. 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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Comptroller of Lands.
?ile herewith 1 21/ 3/1044 .
Purchase o f Land at Magil in Mesopotamia.
As you are aware I have deferred dealing with this
question until I had had an opportunity of going into it with
the
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.
which, for various causes, has not "been
possible until recently. I have now discussed the question
at considerable length with a representative of the
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.
(Mr. C. C. G-arbet t) .
The position is, as I understand it, that a considerable
amount of land at Magil has for some years past been in the
occupation of the de facto Administration of Mesopotamia acting
under the authority of the G.O.C. in C. of the British Forces,
that the original owners have been dispossessed and that no
formal transfer of their land has been taken.
I do not know whether they have or have not up to
the present received any compensation or other payment for ^he
land in question.
I understand that for financial reasons it is desired
to purchase the land outright by the payment of a lump sum to
cover the whole of the owner's claim and not to make any
separate payment in respect of compensation for user of the
land.
These transactions all took place some considerable
time before the question was referred to me.
Owing to the anomalous position of sovereignty in
Mesopotamia it is difficult to advise with any confidence on
the question of the party to whom the land should be tran=ferrou
here seem to be three possible courses;-
!. to transfer the land to the new Mesopotamian State.
The objection to this course is that no such State is
t present in existence, the present Administration of
esopotamia being that of an enemy force in occupation of
ttoman territory.
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This item consists of part eight of the subject file 4613/1919 Iraq: Land Tenure. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq], particularly in relation to the acquisition of land by the British for military purposes.
The part is largely concerned with the acquisition of land in Magil [Al Ma‘qil]. Included in the correspondence is a copy of a set of enclosures, sent from the Government of India's Army Department to the Secretary of State for India, which features correspondence between the General Officer Commanding, Force D, and the Chief of General Staff, Simla; in addition to correspondence, the enclosures contain a number of appendices comprised of tables of figures relating to rights and land holdings in Magil.
The correspondence discusses the legality of the acquisition under Ottoman law, as well as expenditure matters, such as whether the cost of acquisition should be debited to local revenues or military funds.
Correspondents include the Civil Commissioner in Baghdad (Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson) the Viceroy of India (Frederic John Napier Thesiger, or Lord Chelmsford), and various officials of the Foreign Office, the 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. , the War Office, and the Treasury.
Included with the part is a plan of land at Magil and a plan of a proposed site generating station in Basra.
The French language material consists of one enclosure to an item of correspondence.
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- 1r:22v, 24r:65v, 65ar:65av, 66r:93v, 93ar:93av, 94r:94v
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