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Coll 30/36 'Bahrain: claim of Yusuf Lutfali Khunji a Persian subject against Shaikh Hamad in respect of an ice factory' [35r] (69/340)
The record is made up of 1 file (168 folios). It was created in 29 Dec 1930-15 Jun 1933. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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9. I now received a letter dated the 30th January 1931 from
Mr.Xhunji*s solicitors infori:ing me that they had "been in
communication with the
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
,and that from the infom-
aticn they had recei ved it appeared that the position was not
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quite as set out in my letter (of 32nd November 1930} aad they
added that they .entirely failed to appreciate iay statement that
the Joint Court 'decides such cases according to local custom 1 .
'they algo stated that it would be inequitable after a person
had been exercising his business for some time that he should
be deprived of the right to carry it on ’without any other
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neason than apparently caprice or whim of some one claiming to
have a ri^it’. They also stated that the Municipality had
committed an actionable wrong by entering thei'r client’s
premises and working his plant without his consent* A copy
of this letter was forwarded to the Hon’hle the Political
Resident* At the same time the solicitors wrote to His
Excellency Shaikh Hamad and informed him that neither under the
Order in Council
A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council.
or Indian Law was there any authority enabling
him to grant a monopoly to the Manama Municipality and asked
him to get into touch with the Municipality and get the matter
adjusted according to their respective rights* Failing this,
they said,their client would have no alternative but to take
all necessary steps to protect his interests.
10. I replied to this in my letter Ho:404- dated the 23rd
March 1931, of which a copy was sent to the Secretary at Bushire
and the Adviser to the Bahrain G-overnment. In this letter I
declined to enter into an argummt as to what constituted
’local customs’,but pointed out that the Shaikh required no
authority of an
Order in Council
A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council.
or Indian Law to grant mono
polies as it was inherent in his sovereign power.
(q) 11. In another letter dated the 28th March 1931,the solicitors
informed me that unless I would attend to their client’s
interests they proposed to communicate with the India^f Office,
asking then to take it up officially. I pointed out that their
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This file contains papers relating to a legal dispute between Yusuf Lutfally Khunji and Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the ruler of Bahrain. The case concerns a joint venture between the aforementioned parties to set up and operate an ice-making plant in Bahrain at a spring owned by Mr. Khunji in 1922. Following the expiration of a five year monopoly on the manufacture and sale of ice in Bahrain, the two parties fell into a dispute on the plant.
The majority of the papers consist of legal correspondence between Mr Khunji's lawyers in Manchester and either the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Bahrain or the Financial Advisor to the Ruler of Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave. Of note, however, are letters of intervention by the Foreign Minister of Iran through the Persian Legation in London, protesting the treatment of a Persian subject in British protected territory.
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- 1 file (168 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 170; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Coll 30/36 'Bahrain: claim of Yusuf Lutfali Khunji a Persian subject against Shaikh Hamad in respect of an ice factory'
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- front, front-i, 2r:12v, 14r:19v, 21r:24v, 26r:27v, 30r:41v, 45r:48v, 52r:52v, 55r:55v, 57r:90v, 93r:105v, 108r:109v, 111r:114v, 124r:127v, 164r:166v, 169r:169v, back-i, back
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