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Coll 30/36 'Bahrain: claim of Yusuf Lutfali Khunji a Persian subject against Shaikh Hamad in respect of an ice factory' [50r] (99/340)
The record is made up of 1 file (168 folios). It was created in 29 Dec 1930-15 Jun 1933. 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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Ocpy of letter dated the 30th January 1931
from Hall A Oc., Manchester, to Oaptaln C.G. Prior, I,A
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.
, Bahrain,
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Be. Khoali-
We have to refer to your letter of the 22 nd Iasi
Upon receipt thereof we communicated with the Under
Secretary of State for India and enclose you copy of the
reply we received, Prom this and the matter to which
reference is there made it would appear that the
position is not auite as set out in your letter.
Icu will see from the letter from the India
Office it is open to our client to bring a suit under
the provisions of article 45 of the Bahrain Order
in Council of 1913, and, as no doubt you are aware ,
that Order as amended by King # s Beg. Nc.l of 1924
sets cut the Indian Acts applicable in Bahrain.
We entirely fail to appreciate your statement
that the Joint Court "decides such oases according to
local custom". According to cur instructions when the
monopoly was granted to our client at the commencement
of his business, it was because there was no other
ice-making Paotcry on the Island at that time and the
monopoly was granted to allow him to establish the
business. Ihe present circumstances are essentially
different and there appears to be no authority under
the
Order in Council
A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council.
or Indian Law which would permit
or authorise anyone to grant a monopoly as would have
the effect of preventing our client from continuing
to work his -
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
if he should so desire#
You will, we are sure, appreciate before a
custom can possibly exist there would certainly require
to have been a number of acts, matters or things which
must have been well known to have existed. In the
present case none of the elements of a custom local
or
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This file contains papers relating to a legal dispute between Yusuf Lutfally Khunji and Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the ruler of Bahrain. The case concerns a joint venture between the aforementioned parties to set up and operate an ice-making plant in Bahrain at a spring owned by Mr. Khunji in 1922. Following the expiration of a five year monopoly on the manufacture and sale of ice in Bahrain, the two parties fell into a dispute on the plant.
The majority of the papers consist of legal correspondence between Mr Khunji's lawyers in Manchester and either 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. in Bahrain or the Financial Advisor to the Ruler of Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave. Of note, however, are letters of intervention by the Foreign Minister of Iran through the Persian Legation in London, protesting the treatment of a Persian subject in British protected territory.
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- 1 file (168 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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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 170; 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.
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- Title
- Coll 30/36 'Bahrain: claim of Yusuf Lutfali Khunji a Persian subject against Shaikh Hamad in respect of an ice factory'
- Pages
- 162r:163v, 128r:128v, 150r:156v, 115r:123v, 111r:113v108r:109v, 53r:54v, 50r:51v
- Author
- Messrs Hall, Bryden and Chapman Solicitors
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