"ملف 31/8 1 b/7. ممتلكات آل خليفة في البحرين. (السوق البلدية للّحوم والمسلخ)" [و‎‎٢‎٢] (٤١٥/٤٣)

GOVERNMENT OE INDIA*
Department.'
EXPRESS LETTER
[N.B.—TUs is an ORIGINAL MESSAGT?, senlly post to we tele
graphic expense and undue use of ike icires, but intended to be
treated, on receipt, icith the scone expedition as if it had been
telegraphed. To save time and formalities it is worded and signed
as if it had been so despatched.]
Prom
Political
Bahrain.
To
Besident
Busin re.
iVo. G/cdU Dated Ebth February 192 p'A.
The question oi'-the a! iChalifah custom whereby Members of
the Family are not allowed, to alienate al Khaiifah land to persons
other than Members ol the family and the custom ui grants of Al
Khaiifah land made by one Ruler reverting on his decease to the
next Ruler,has been challenged by bhaiich Muharnmad bin Isa H
IChalil'ah m connection with a specific case.
E. ills excellency Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khaiifah. says that he
- thinks there was a meeting in Colonel Meade's time,of Shaikh Isa.
Shaikh Ali bin Ahmad,Salman bin Da f ij,Aii bin Muhammad al Khaiifah
and Khalia bin Ali at which tne existence of the above custom was
accepted. ^
b. I thin!' that this meeting was prior to the establishment of
the Agency and there do not appear to be any recorus of it. I think,
however, that it is the ’’family mentioned in Line 14 of
Page yES of Volume l,Fart l,of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf by
S. 6. "
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