'File 19/116 VII (C 21) Oppression of Bahrain subjects by the ruling family: miscellaneous correspondence' [‎19r] (39/250)

^hidmeh 1 which could not possibly be collected by llaharamafl iharif.
Further enquiry elicited that the debtor to whom the real letter
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was written i3 the 3haiic ! 3 repreaentative in the village & haa redentiy
bean 30 appointed^in place of Haji All. j?hi3 corabined with the fact that
the village i3 under the orders o~ the anacrupal 'U3 Hanud .1 subah.who
ha3 A 3oramij>ted political nurdirs there,and the fact that the latter on
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exainination, 3 -ewed cie r~ 7 that : ho n-i le ilaha. v iad >harif had been in-
serted in another writing,confirmed the suspicion th^^t it vvas a politica
intrigue •
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I )oiatad out the whole of this to >hai£ ialaxui who was with
me in the Joint Court.He agreed that no case had been proved.I stated
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that even had the accused written the letter ^s st tdd.it was not a cri
Everybody imows that X:«B.Muharamad Jharif has no judicial oowers and does
not t^ice ca^es.xjven if he did so he could not enforce any decisions th
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debtor could ignore such a letter^?he moat that Muhammad Sharif could c
would oe to attempt to patch up the dispute , such is the role of every
leading merchant in the place, & is in ni way open to objection,It they
fail the litigants have recourse to the Halera.
The following day. a large deputation of iiahrainis came to me in
considerable exciteraent & said that daji All had been sent for by :ihaii
Salman, was abused^as also his religion,& was distinctly told that he
and several others who had been named,would be made to suffer for comir
to the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. to complain to you# Ha had been ordered to prosent 'limael
on the following day in Muharrai before sunrise. They suspected he wou]
be inprisone 1 as another case had been a^ced against him.Jabir bin 3uba
brother of the notorious Hamu1,wa3 accusing hiia of damaging his garden
which he had let to him,and of not pitying his accounts,although he held
full receipts. They put it plainly to me that v/e had guaranteed to
protect t ham, when they cuu to the aee ting,and if wa ware not now wi l j
to, to s iy 30 when they would rise in a body '-.ad demand his release.
I told the man not to go to r.uharraq.^nd that I would send
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:ielaan,whose conduct seemed amazing after the views he had expressed t
ma. I sent for lihaik: Jalman asking him to see me next morning when I i
he was passing through Lianameh on his way to 3ukhair.Ha evidently gue.,
what was the matter cb did not oomo to sea me but went straight 3 .t to
3u.hair.I had an appointnent that afternoon to see >haixC iiasa^and it w