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Malet, pp. 136-
137.
1844.
Malet, p. 137.
1845.
No. 8,
February 28,
1845.
No. 36,
September 3,
1845,
Archives, vol. 237.
1843 1843 Major Uawlinson was appointed
Political Agent in Turkish Arabia and reached
Bassorah on the 25th November.
On the 5th March Major Hawlinson was
appointed Her Majesty's Consul at Eagdad.
1845. —Major Rawlinson early in 1845, when
referring to the movements of Persian troops
near Mohammerah, refers to the monthly trip of
the u Nitocris " to Bussorah.
In September 1845 Colonel Rawlinson, refer
ring to a Turkish demand, described the Qalibiyeh
as a tax imposed about twenty years before upon
river craft to supply funds for the repair of the
bridge, and he stated that, being remunerative,
the tax was incorporated in the established
sources of revenue.
Later, in the same despatch, he refers to this
question in the following passage :—
44 The river boats belonging to British mer
chants at Bagdad are employed in two different
species of traffic. During the favourable season
they convey native produce to Bussorah for
exportation and return with cargoes of British
goods, while, at other times, they are made use
of to supply the town with firewood, salt and
other articles of daily consumption which are
found on the banks of the lliver Tigris.
" The Qalibiyeh (Kalibiyeh) duty is applied in
different proportions to every trip which such a
boat mav make, it is calculated in reference to
distance and tonnage and may be assumed,
therefore, to be levied on the cargo rather than the
vessel"
Major Rawliuson,
No. 46,-
November 12,
1845.
See Letter Book,
Foreign Office,
Archives, No. 196,
vol. xxvii, p. 202.
Major Ravvlinson,
No. 47,
November 25,
1845 '
Appendix VIII.
The dispute over dues appears to have con
tinued, and Major Bawlinson, acknowledging
the receipt of a despatch from the Ambassador
(No. 2, October 20, 1845), which transmitted
a vizierial letter directing the discontinuance
of the Kalibiyeh duty, said that the Vali
of Bagdad intended to defend the kalibieh duty.
He added that he heard that the iurkish.
authorities intended to demand that the iurkish
flag should in all cases be substituted lor the
British flag on boats and vessels belonging to
British merchants. (See Appendix VII.)
On the 25th November, 1845, Major llawlinson
informed Sir S. Canning that a schooner, the
<c Kerbelai," had been built at Bombay by a
merchant of that place expressly for the naviga-