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File 4613/1919 Pt 5 'Mesopotamia: Land Policy. Land for Civil Cantonment.' [195r] (29/56)
The record is made up of 1 item (22 folios). It was created in 12 Oct 1919-7 May 1920. It was written in English. 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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and third olass, aooording to size, aituaticn , ato
Most of those sites shown on the plan are reserved for
Sovernaent Houses, Offlees, eto., but a certain number
of each class will be available for private individuals
Aoout 30 sites for houses have already been applied for.
18 sio&ll houses have been built since the work
was started last July, on plots Uo.62,63, 64,65,66,76,
80,81,82,83,84,65, and a large olub house is under
o on at motion at plot Iio.5, and should be completed about
the end of April#
It is the intention to make the olub a residential
one, and it has been designed on suoh lines* I am
at present designing quarters for bachelor and married
officers, which will be erected on sites kos* 12,13
during next building season*
I also intend to prepare designs for about 25
bungalows which I will endeavour to erect next year# I
will submit at a later date a definite building programme
•several new roads must also be cut and the
matters of irrigation, water supply and electric lighting
gardens, avenues, drainage, etc; all require consider-
ation as a large amount of this work must be put in hand
soon#
These plans I now send you are not complete#
I am at present working up a complete plan which I wish
to have reproduced but I wish to give several matters
more consideration and dont want to "rush" them#
As soon as I possibly can, I will let you have
the complete scheme* I think however that the plans I
now send you, will show roughly , what has been done
and the lines on which I wish to work#
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This item consists of part five 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 proposed construction by the British authorities.
The part contains correspondence discussing a proposed new civil station and military cantonment, which would be located in the southern vicinity of Baghdad. Correspondents include the Acting Civil Commissioner in Baghdad (Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson), the Officiating Commander-in-Chief of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force (Major-General George Fletcher MacMunn), and officials 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. and the War Office.
Included with this part are several plans showing the layout of the proposed sites, as well as the layout of a proposed Baghdad railway.
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- File 4613/1919 Pt 5 'Mesopotamia: Land Policy. Land for Civil Cantonment.'
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- 183r:188v, 188ar:188bv, 189r:199v, 199ar:199av, 200r:205v, 205ar:205bv
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