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'File II. IRAQ (3) Vol. 1 Shaikh of Kuwait's Date Gardens on the Shatt-al Arab. (Kuwait's relations with Turkish Govt. and Turkish demand that Kuwaitis should take out Turkish Nationality Certificates)' [99r] (207/636)
The record is made up of 1 volume (307 folios). It was created in 18 Sep 1904-10 Nov 1913. 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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y /£r.
the value# Afterwards the Wall of Busreh, Uahram Bey infonhed
my confidential employe Abdul Aziz ol ^alem tliat ho had received
an order from Constantinople to defer the settlement until
further orders• After tills purchase was made by me, some of my
subjects inhabiting i^owolt (by name) Hussein and his brother
Shamlan, Ibrahim bin Huzaffer and HelAl purchased the
landed property belonging to the sons of casern el Thani, and it
was recorded in the Tapoo for them, without any demand being
made for their Turkish Certificates of Nationality. Similarly
a year before this purchase, 1 bought a landed property at llot-
avvah during the .Valiship of Afcdul Rahman Hassan Bey and it was
duly written in the name of my children without their demanding
any Turkish Certificates of Nationality# Row a days an order
having been received from Constantinople by the Wall of Busreh
to settle (the affair of the)landed property and tho postpone
ment until further instructions having been removed, I sent my
confidential employe Abdul Aziz ei balom to the present Y/ali of
Buoreh Soleiman Radhif Bey (to state that) according to a tele
gram received by mo from the seller Ahmed el Zoheir, orders have
been given for a settlement. 'The Wall refused to do so, however,
unless the property is recorded in the names of my senior sons,
Jaber, Balom, Naser and iiamad and they should t ike out Turkish
Certificates of Rationality# Hy confidential employe returned
with this reply# X did not accept this unless 1 should refer to
you and act upon what you may order. Afterwards I found an easy
solicitor for this matter - in the same way as I have been
treating them with kindness for the sake of convenience- and sent
my employe to the Wall of Busreh asking him to record one half
of the propertt in the name of my son baser and the other half
in the nam© of my seven daughters, as my son baser was dear to
me for many reasons and I found him to bo inclined to piety
and I appointed him as guardian over the landed property belong
ing to them 4 oitttly. confidential employe stated this to the
Wall but the Wall refused and did not agree unless tho property
should be written in the names of my four sons who should take
out Turkish Certificates of Rationality.
When
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the:
- Shaikh of Kuwait's date gardens on the Shatt al-`Arab
- Turkish demand that Kuwaitis should take out Turkish Nationality Certificates
- registration of Shaikh Mubarak's property at Faddaghiya
- offer of a cash salary to Shaikh of Kuwait as Qaimaqam
The principal correspondents in the volume include 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, Stuart George Knox; the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Mubarak al Sabah; and the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. , John Gordon Lorimer.
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- 1 volume (307 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 main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 309; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-308; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- 'File II. IRAQ (3) Vol. 1 Shaikh of Kuwait's Date Gardens on the Shatt-al Arab. (Kuwait's relations with Turkish Govt. and Turkish demand that Kuwaitis should take out Turkish Nationality Certificates)'
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- front, front-i, 2r:25v, 26ar:26av, 26v:43v, 44ar, 44r:50v, 51ar:51av, 51r:75v, 76ar:76av, 76r:76v, 76v, 76v:82v, 83ar:83av, 83r:94v, 98r:101v, 102ar:102av, 102r:113v, 116r:118v, 119ar:119av, 119r:120v, 121ar:121av, 121r:134v, 136r:145v, 147r:158v, 159ar:159av, 159r:309r, back-i
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