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File 4613/1919 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: Land Policy (Tenure and Acquisition) (General file)' [302v] (44/98)
The record is made up of 1 item (48 folios). It was created in 20 Nov 1917-16 Apr 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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there is some small misunderstanding
as to the powers of the Civil
administration as hitherto defined.
Under Ottoman Law it was competent for
the nationals of any country to acquire
real estate in Turkey provided that in
so doing they agreed to abandon any
special privileges which migjit accrue
to them from the capitulations.
Sir Percy Cox (vide notification bo.4
of 1917, copy of which is attached for
ready reference) restricted this
competency to the extent of requiring
persons other than Mesopotamians
desirous of acquiring land to obtain
the previous consent of the Chief civil
authority; and on at least one occasion
(vide correspondence forwarded to you
under cover of my endorsement No.P.4707
dated August 21st) Col.Wilson has
exercised this authority. By notificatipn
No.58 dated July 30th 1919 enclosed
herewith, (the precise effect of which
in certain particulars is under enquiry
these provisions have been affirmed aid
extended,/to all leases exceeding a period
t
of three years ^ ^Ja ^ k °M. jJIu.
5. Mr.Secretary Montagu would therefore
suggest for the consideration of Lord
Curzon that the policy approved in your
letter under reference, at least in so
far as it concerns privately owned real
estate, should oe understood to apply
a*i
only to agricultural land.'
/l
( /W J / Pj
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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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