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File 4613/1919 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: Land Policy (Tenure and Acquisition) (General file)' [305r] (49/98)
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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From Baghdad
Dated 12th October, 1919
(Heed.15th. 11.55 a.ra.)
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12141 ♦ Your telegram of the 7th October, lumber 6.
(1) Cawnpore Woollen Mill - site for erecting factories.
Question (pending ?) vide my telegram of the 22nd July, 1918,
6023, to Foreign, not repeated to you, and connected papers.
(2) . Applications by British subjects connected with firms in
India tor concessions to make paper-pulp from x-eeds and land
to erect factories for Mie purpose.
(3) . Applications to take over military tramways at Basrah.
This involves grant of certain rights and facilities
equivalent to a concession. Capital in this case will be
entirely local with British management. Military are ready
to hand over tramways at once and important economies will
result.
ang proceeded, witn as Company h
under protocol to assistance from Turkish Government in this
and other matters.
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(5) . Applications for concessions for (adniinisvracdon uf
water supply. Local capital British management.
(6) . Ditto for Najaf. Local capital, British management.
(7) . Applications for building sites in new civil station
south ot Baghdad. Many applicants, , both British and natdve
•and great public benefit to be expected.
(8) Applications for concessions for Kurria electric lignt and
water supply. Local capital and management.
(9) . Applications for motor tramways in Baghdad area. Local
capitalJ British management.
(10) . Some twenty or thirty enquiries as to agricultural land
have been received, but, pending a reply to my de spate a ox June
27th, it has not been possible to give applicants suca encour^ige^
ment as would enable them to formulate applications. Local
capital will probably be concerned in nearly all cases.
Addressed Secretary of State and repeated to India by post.
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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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