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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
Department.
EXPR ESS LET TER (AIR MAIL).
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No. C/311-18/4
Dated , the
Bahrain,
A
14th May
19
To
Political Resident
Bushire•
Reference Government of India, External Affairs Departments
Express letter No* D.1571-N/38 dated the 5th May 1938 regarding the
draft Qatar Order in Council.
2* I am visiting Doha in the course of my forthcoming Trucial
Coast cruise, and would like if possible to effect or attempt to
lows* that I have reported to you, and you to His Majesty’s Govern-
ruaxy last in regard to matters of jurisdiction; that His Majesty’s
Government note with satisfaction that he has agreed to the indivi
dual* s personal religion rather than the State religion of his couiv-
try of origin beir^ the criterion whether he comes within the juris
diction of the representative of the British Government or of the
Shaikh himself (except of course for British subjects whether Moslem
or not, all of whom as he has already agreed will be within the Bri
tish Representative’s jurisdiction); that as a result of representations
after leaving Bahrain.
3. It seems necessary only to address the Shaikh roughly as foL-
ment, the conversation which I had with him at Doha on the 4th of Feb-
(Signature)
made/-
s. 44.
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