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'File 2/5 VI SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.' [13r] (30/412)
The record is made up of 1 volume (202 folios). It was created in 22 Jan 1935-3 Mar 1936. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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not been quite fully realized, and with deep respect, I
venture to malse the following observations for what they
are worth:-
(a) We know that the Shaikh possesses no Tapu
documents for his 7 miles long Fao estate, but we
do know that he has a rt Wahbiyeh? document, and that
the "Saniya* departmait of the late Turkish G-ovem
inent , decided that the ruling family of the A1 Sabah
held these Fao lands by right of tenure (see previous
correspondence).
(b) We have from time to time also heard it put
forward by the IBAQ Government that the Shaikh has
encroached on and taken over certain *Slate" or *Hiri*
lands adjoining his property. Ho attempts have
however been made to point out actual encroachments
or to prove that they were made after 1914 when His
Majesty’s Government guaranteed the Shaikh possession
of what he held.
(c) I myself have gone out of my way to point out
in certain despatched, notably that describing the
various Faddaghiyeh holdings, that certain "Shuwatis*
and strips of silt land in process of being recovered
from the river, had not yet been paid for by the Shaikh,
as the Law required, but I have certainly not been able
to find out any other portions that were not absolutely
the Shaikh’s by right of unchallenged possession since
1914. If any encroachments were ever made, they were
made in the dim past and in the days of the Turks,
certainly not after 1914.
(d) For the benefit of those who do not know the
actual lay out of the ground, and th© areas embraced
by the various "Hauzes" or garden strips, which extend
in every case from the river bank to the protective
bund
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The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, in southern Iraq. In particular, the correspondence concerns the alleged intention of the Iraqi Government to expropriate a portion of the Shaikh of Kuwait’s property at Faw. The volume also concerns the service of judicial documents emanating from the Iraqi Government on the Shaikh of Kuwait in connection with his ownership of the gardens and the refusal of the Iraqi Ministry of Justice to recognise the Power of Attorney presented to them by the Shaikh of Kuwait’s lawyer in Basra, J Gabriel.
In the volume, British Officials discuss the failure of the Iraqi Government to validate the Shaikh’s title to his Faddaghiyya gardens, the Shaikh’s appointment of his son Muhammad as his attorney in Iraq, and the appointment of Abdul Jalil Partu as the Shaikh’s pleader in Basra instead of J Gabriel. The volume also includes correspondence related to the demands for customs duty by Iraqi customs authorities on Shaikh of Kuwait’s motor launch.
The main correspondence is between 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. , Kuwait, the British Ambassador, Baghdad, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iraq, the Ruler of Kuwait, and the Foreign Office, London.
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- 1 volume (202 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
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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 204; 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.
A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- 'File 2/5 VI SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:7v, 10r:17v, 19r:24v, 27r:28v, 31r:32v, 34r:37v, 39r:39v, 41r:43v, 46r:46v, 47v:62v, 65r:79v, 81r:84v, 87r:87v, 89r:90v, 92r:94v, 96r:151v, 153r:156v, 159r:166v, 168r:175v, 178r:178v, 180r:180v, 182r:183v, 185r:193v, 196r:203v, back-i
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