ملف ١٩١٦/٤٩٣١ "الجزيرة العربية [نجد]: إعانة مالية لابن سعود. دفع إعانة مالية مصرح بها في ١ يناير ١٩١٧. التحقيق في واقعة. مدفوعات تمت من دون موافقة الخزينة" [و‎‎١‎٣‎٠] (٤١٨/٢٦٨)

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Tr&usl&'ti 011 & Xettar d&ted 2nd Katoi-fiX*AwwtiI X•>•-'« , (2oth
HOTember X9X9) £raa His ExceXXency Shaikh Sir AbduX Aziz bin
Abdur Rahman AX-FaisaX As 3 aud R.C.I.E-, RnXer of Hajd, to Major
H.S.?.Dickson, O.I-E«, PoXitieaX Agent, Dahrain.
I have the honour to aoknowXedge receipt of your oordiaX
letter dated 16th Safar 1338, (= 10th November 1919) contents of
which I have fully noted, especially regarding the telegrams
received by you from the Hon’ble Civil Oommissioner at Baghdad
stating that according to a report from His Majesty's representa
tive at Jiddah, I had appointed an official at Tara bah who was
collecting taxes and blocking the road from Yemen, and that His
Majesty's representative considered the withdrawal of the official
necessary*
He further reports that aharif Husain is willing to give an
undertaking that no body shell occupy Sarabah until the question
of boundaries is decided*
Yes, I may inform you that I trust and believe in all
officials of the High Government, both His Majesty's representative
in Jiddah, and all other Political Officers, also you who are His
Majesty's official, and I humbly, say and believe, that none of
them consider any thing except peace, honour and tranquility of
us Arabs generally; but we Arabs are perhaps not deserving of this
for as the poet says "If the habits are bad no training csn be
of any use".
It is therefore well proved to me that all this is baseless
talk on the part of the Sharif, it is rather strange that he
should talk like he does when no tax has been collected from the
inhabitants of Sarabah or Al-khurmah; firstl*. neither I nor the
Sharif have been collecting any taxes from those places, and
secondly , neither of us can levy any taxes on those places, as the
question concerns the inhabitants of those towns only. It has been
the practice from the time of our fathers and grand fathers to
levy no taxes on the aforesaid places, (neither Qia the Turks ever
do so), but in the p&st it has been the Custom for the AJairs of