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File 4613/1919 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: Land Policy (Tenure and Acquisition) (General file)' [302r] (43/98)
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Draft Paper.
Department.
Foreigi Office.
No.11700 d.October 2nd
No,12141 d.October 12th
(69265) Wt. P210/17 Gp.163 5000 5-19 W B & L
(70076) P715/29 „ 5000 8-19
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Sir,
1. In forwarding jto be laid before rU
Earl Curzon of Kedleston copy of the
marginally noted telegrams which have
been received from the Acting Civil
Commissioner in Mesopotamia relative
to the grant of commercial facilities
to approved firms, I am directed by
the Secretary of State for India to
invite attention to your letter No,
128145/M.E.44, dated September 19th on
the subject of the sale or lease of
agricultural lands.
2. Mr.Secretary Montagu does not
propose in this letter to discuss in
detail tie various projects to which
Col.Wilson refers, out there are certair]
questions of broad principle which
arise from them regarding which he
would be glad to be favoured with the
advice of Lord Curzon.
3. The schemes under reference appear
to contemplate, inter alia, the lease
or sale of Government and possibly of
private lards to commercial firms for
business sites in town areas.
4. Mr.Secretary Montagu is disposed
to suggest that a distinction might
be drawn between realty of this nature
and the agricultural property which he
had particularly in mind in his letter
to which your communication of Sept.
19th was a reply. It would seem that
! r.
there
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This item consists of part one of the subject file 4613/1919 Iraq: Land Tenure. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq] and particularly relates to the sale, leasing or granting of land to persons other than domiciled inhabitants of the territories (e.g. British, British Indian, and European subjects). The part mostly consists of correspondence but also includes notifications, minutes and proclamations, including a copy of the Land Settlement Proclamation (1920). The notifications relate to restrictions imposed by the British on the alienation of immoveable property within the occupied territories to persons other than Arabs of the occupied territories.
The principal correspondents are the Acting Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, (Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson), the Secretary of State for India (Edwin Samuel Montagu), 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 Foreign Office.
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