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'Reports of administration for 1918 of divisions and districts of the occupied territories in Mesopotamia. Volume I' [12v] (29/470)
The record is made up of 1 volume (231 folios). It was created in 1919. 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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It yielded a total of Rs. 125,298/8/-, divided between districts as follows
Ba‘qubah
Daltawah
Shahraban
Dali ‘Abbas
Rs.
34,535/-
8,650/-
41,616/-
30,470/-
Rs.
1,15,271/-
A.P.O., Daltawah, reports that the season was bad owing to bad grazing at
the close of last and the earlier part of this year.
From August onwards the sale of ‘Araq was confined to licensed vendors, anc
licence fees at Rs. 20/- per month brought in a total of :—
Rs.
Ba‘qubah - 600/—
Daltawah - - - - 105/-
Shahraban - 157/-
Dali ‘Abbas - - - - - —
The right of collecting the Government fifth from all fish caught in the rivers
was farmed, the farm realising in—-
Ba‘qubah
Daltawah
Shahraban
Dali ‘Abbas
Rs.
3,231/-
455/-
220 /-
110/-
A tax of Rs. 21/8/- per kiln was levied in all brick kilns working in the Division.
The number was small and the revenue realised was only—
Ba‘qubah . . . _ _ p vS< 155 /-
Daltawah - - - - - Nil.
Shahraban - - . _ _ ^jh
Dali ‘Abbas - _ _ _ _
A small revenue, amounting to Rs. 131/- for the whole Division, was realised
from a small licence fee for permission to carry shot guns for sporting purposes.
(c) Customs. As Ba qubah is not a frontier Division, the Customs revenues
are nil.
(/) Compensation .—Troops have been camped in the Division throughout the
year on both the right and left banks of the Diyalah. Claims for compensation,
however, have mainly arisen in the 13th Divisional Area on the right bank Diyalah!
both in the neighbourhood of Daltawah and Dali ‘Abbas. In Daltawah there was
a permanent Board of Assessment, which assembled periodically. A.P.O., Daltawah.
was one of the members of this Board. The most notable amounts awarded were
£T2,600 to Rashid al Farraj, farmer of the Waqf lands at Kashkin, and Rs. 1,062/8/-
to the Mutwalli of the Nahr Saiyid Mandalawi estate.
The total amounts awarded in compensation in each district were
Rs. a.
Ba qubah ~ _ 6 0,117 6
Daltawah - - - _ .7 ggq y
Shahraban - - - - _ 250 -
Dali ‘Abbas - - - - . 13,582
p.
6
8
Total
81,534 6 6
3 Irrigation.— Until March the irrigation work of the Division was under th
control ot the 1 optical Department, assisted, where necessary by Lieut Gunn
the 3 rd Corps. In March, the Irrigation Department took over control of ’th
canals on the left bank of the Diyalah. In the late spring and early summer ther
was a shortage of water in the Khurasan Canal, which caused great loss in the fn,i
gardens Among fruit trees, apricots were the chief sufferers. Vegetable garden
and early idhra crops were also seriously affected. It was only in July when
dam was built across the Diyalah below the head of the Khurasan, that garde!
owners obtained sufficient water for their needs 0
t .„ T 0n the l "f ht b ;? nk PjyaMb the Irrigation Department did not take oontro
till June. Beloie this date, canal clearances in the Waziriyah and Mansuriya]
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The volume comprises annual reports and administration reports, submitted by Political Officers, for the following divisions in occupied Mesopotamia [Iraq]: Samara; Ba'qubah; Khaniqin [Khānaīqn]; Samawah; Shamiyah [Shāmīyah]; Hillah; Dulaim [Anbar]; Basrah; Qurnah; 'Amarah [Al 'Amārah]; Kut; Nasiriyah; Kirkuk; and the Kuwait Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. [Kuwayt].
The administration reports often include details under the following headings: tribal and political boundaries; revenue; irrigation; agriculture; industry; municipalities; judicial; education; medical and sanitation; housing; police; jails; Shabanahs; labour; Waqf; establishment and personnel. They often contain appendices, providing statistical tables, special reports, notes on prominent personalities, lists of ruling Shaikhs, and details of court cases and prisoners.
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- 1 volume (231 folios)
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A table of contents can be found at page 2 (folio 2v).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 233; 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. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence (445pp, including maps and tables).
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