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File 4613/1919 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: Land Policy (Tenure and Acquisition) (General file)' [‎303r] (45/98)

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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6. With re^rd to the sale or lease
of State land, Mr.Secretary Montagu
agrees that there is no authority
competent to bind the future Government
of the occupied territories.
At the same time action has on occasion:
been taken involving 'the disposal of
Government land. Mr.Montagu understands
that 'the War Office has in preparation
a scheme for the building of a
cantonment which will presumably be ^
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sited on State domain. Again on April
8th when the development of the
Naft Khana Oil Fields was discussed
in London Col,Wilson stated that he
was able to provide land for the site
of a refinery to oe erected by the
A.P.O.C. in the vicinity of Baghdad.
It v/ould appear that the land in
question was Government land and
Col.Wilson f s authority to act as he
suggested has not hitherto been
challenged. While Mr.Montagu would
insist that no lease or sale^' should
be permitted without previous reference
to H.M.G he is inclined to think that
under the circumstances arising from
the continued delay in the final
settlement of Peace with Turkey it
would be advisable not to place an
absolute veto upon the entertainment
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by the authorities in Baghdad of
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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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File 4613/1919 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: Land Policy (Tenure and Acquisition) (General file)' [‎303r] (45/98), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/847/1, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100061328860.0x000021> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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