ملف ١٩٢٢/٥٢٢، جزء ٦، "الخليج الفارسي: البحرين: المستشار المالي: الموازنة" [و‎‎١‎٤‎٦] (٣٨٢/٣٠٢)

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Land Registration and Settlement Department. The Land
Registration Department has dealt with about 300 sales*
transfers etc. during the year* It is satisfactory to see
that the number of applications steadily increases and the
public appreciate this branch of the Government*
The work of the Land Settlement Department which is
also the Survey Department has been some-what restricted
owing to illness among the Indian Surveyors* It carried
out a detailed survey of the stretch of shallow sea between
the islands of Manama and Muharrak, with a view to the
proposed sea road between those islands.
The Survey of the gardens in the Khalifa Estate case
which has been going on for 26 years was completed* Five
villages together with their date gardens were surveyed
and their water rights were settled and recorded.
The work of the department although somewhat expensive
will be of lasting value and will put an end to the incessant
disputes usually between Arabs and Bahamas over boundaries
and irrigation rights.
.The Department is well equipped with modern Survey
instruments which have gradually been purchased oy the
State *