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'File 2/4 II TAXATION of SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.' [208r] (420/448)
The record is made up of 1 volume (220 folios). It was created in 1 Jan 1931-19 Dec 1932. 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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makt waa aori* of * politloal and X«aa of a wart 1 dm
payuwnt • kn however any payment made would also oe
in the nature of a final liquidation of the I 9 I 4 pledges
and intended to ensure that those pledges should not be
invoiced in future in the event of Iraq re-imposing land
taxes whieh might legally be regarded as covered by the
pledges, the payment could not be regarded ae a purely
ex gratis political one, and, in so far as it constituted
a final liquidation of the 1914 pledges in respect of the
future, could legitimately be represented as arising out
of a war obligation. Hr. Trickett said that he oould
not wholly agree. As matters stood at the moment, there
was no liability to ensure immunity from taxation or in
default to pay oompensation. Possibly, in the future, the
for;n of taxation might be changed to that of a land tax,
to which the pledge would apply. But that - as sir
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Francis Humphrya had advised - was a very remote
oontingenoyj and in substance therefore any payment which
it might be decided now to make would be a political
payment for whioh the Government of India should share
responsibility •
19 . It was eventually agreed that the division of
liability b.tw.tn Hi. Me.J..ty'8 aor.rnm.Trt in th« UnitaA
Kingloa and tha Got. ns».nt of India would hare to ba dealt
with separately and poa.ibljr referred tb the abinet.
2v. After furttier discussion it wae agreed that as
a preliminary to referring the matter to the Cabinet, it
would be desirable to obtain an authoritative opinio n
the legal question. Mr. Triohett said that he would be
willing - and he would ash ur. 3 wkett to be so good as
to collaborate - to consult the Treasury solicitor on the
question whether the undertakings Siren to the Sn.lkhs
could
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The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, and the Shaikh of Mohammerah, Khaz'al al-Ka'bi, in southern Iraq. In particular, the correspondence concerns the Government of Iraq's intention to end the immunity from taxation (on the gardens) that had been granted to the former ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ, and the Shaikh of Mohammerah by the British Government in return for their military support against the Ottoman Empire in the First World War.
The correspondence is mainly between British officials discussing the possible solutions to the gardens taxation issue. Among the suggested solutions was the selling of the property. British officials report that the Shaikh of Kuwait is entirely flexible in regards to the selling of certain estates but not the ones in Al-Faw. But they also suggested that it would be rather useless for the Iraq Government to attempt to purchase the gardens as they belong to more than a hundred relatives of the Shaikh who depend on the produce for their maintenance.
The volume includes statements of an estimated value of the Shaikh of Kuwait’s estates on Shatt al-Arab. It also contains economic reports on the proposed new basis of taxation on agricultural produce in Iraq, and copies of the Government of Iraq’s new laws for the collection of consumption ( Istihlak ) tax and for the collection of land rent and water rent (ff 79-101). The correspondence also includes records of meetings held in London in regard to the question of the taxations as well as the new system of land revenue collections in Iraq.
The main correspondence is between the British Resident, Bushire, 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 High Commissioner, Baghdad, and the Colonial Office, Downing Street, London.
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- 1 volume (220 folios)
- Arrangement
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 for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 222; 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. Two additional foliation sequences are present in parallel; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. One of these additional sequences has been crossed out.
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- 'File 2/4 II TAXATION of SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:65v, 69r:123v, 125r:145v, 147r:188v, 190r:214v, 217r:221v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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