"ملف ٢٠/٨: شؤون دولة مسقط: احتجاج العمانيين" [و‎‎٢‎٧‎٣] (٦٣٤/٥٤٥)

they couli rely, anlwere eimply Havel by the presence of our
Tory expensive troop* at Muscat*
Weil the result of a iifferent policy is rather
surprising. Take first of all the actual administrative affai*
of the Sultanate. I consider the financial reorganisation to
have started from the 1st October 1919* On the 31st July 1930
that is with two of the nost profitable months of the finanoia
year atill to run, the treasury shows a balance of Just over
Hs*180000/* t an! there Is still Ws.30000/* from the Nuralbahr
to come in. That is assuming the usual monthly recurring
expenditure at the end of the financial year there should be
a balance of over two lakhs* If we take off from this 1S.5000U
for a motor cruiser and Re.50C00/* for the initial expense** cf
the leJky you see that the state will still have a balance of
a lakh, that is over one year’s instalment of the debt to the
0 of I* It is not a bad record if you consider the conditions
of tills place and remember that w# started from absolutely
nothing, and the state has proved itsself enable of meeting
its debt charges and also of heavy initial exx>enditure as well
As regards other matters my quaint system of Justice
has proved an astounding success. Cases are disposed quite
rapidly and fairly Justly, and many people cone fron Jtfie inter
, capable
-ior to get their canes settled* The only approximately men
in the state are now at the head of affairs*
Once the levy arrives and the government has this
visible and reliable power of its own, the state can be almost
left to work out its own salvation provided there is a perman
ent regency council to govern during the Cultan’s what I
imagine to be almost continuance in India*
Now what about the int rlor. They at least were
perfectly aware of our stupidity, and proceeded to enjoy life
ant bluff ua tothmlrhearts content, and apparently to ours as