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File 4613/1919 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: Land Policy (Tenure and Acquisition) (General file)' [314r] (67/98)
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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opposed dy certain elements of the population of
Mesopotamia. This being so, His Lordship foresees
that the recognition by the British Military
Authorities of transactions involving the alienation
of land to approved foreigners might be objected to
by the future administration of the country, on
the ground that the title of the vendor was in
correctly assumed by them to be valid. ‘ His Lord-
ship sees no objection to the Civil Commissioner
being invited to submit, for the consideration of
His Majesty*s Government, a draft of the regulations
by which he would propose that the sale of land to
persons other than domiciled inhabitants of the ^
occupied territories should be governed, but he \
suggests that the considerations outlined above
should be brought to the notice of the Civil Com
missioner when the enquiry is made.
His Lordship's view is that no transactions
involving the sale or lease of state or privately
owned
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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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