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'File 2/4 III TAXATION OF SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.' [15r] (34/461)
The record is made up of 1 volume (225 folios). It was created in 8 Dec 1932-26 Mar 1934. 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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take out Tapu Deeds, unless he registered himself as
a Turkish subject. This under instructions from His
Majesty’s G vernment he resued to do. Behind the Turks
policy was the idea that by exerting pressure on Shaikh
Mubarak, they might get him to break with the British
Government, with whom he had recently allied himself by
treaty. Intrigue and counter intrigue continued between
the Turks and Shaikh Mubarak till 1914 without the latter
budging fiom his standpoint, or registering as Turk.
During this period his garden was looked after by one
Hamad al Khalid an important Kuwaiti land owner of Basrah.
On the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, and
after the occupation of Basrah, proper Tapu papers were
finally issued to Shaikh Mubarak by Mr.Dobbs, later Sir
Henry Dobbs, who was the Revenue Commissioner, Basrah,
after full enquiry into the whole history of the case had
been made, and the Shaikh’s title proved.
Much correspondence passed between the Shaikh
and His Majesty’s Government regarding the Bashiyeh and
Faddaghiyeh Law suits, and ended in the Shaikh anneal
ing in 1932 (June 26th) to the British Government to protect
his interests, under the first clause of TT is Majesty’s
Government’s promise, made in their letter of 3rd November
1914 to Shaikh Mubarak (see above ), and on the grounds
that he, the Shaikh, possessed proper title deeds issued
by His Majesty’s Revenue Commissioner during the British
occupation, and lastly because proceedings were ’’time bar
red” •
The Faddaghiyeh case at the time of writing this
note, remains undecided apparently as a result of His
Majesty’s Government interesting themselves in the matter.
The Shaikh, however, ontinues to be consumed
with anxiety as to the eventual outcome of suit, as a vast
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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. A particular taxation system called Istihlak (consumption) tax has been imposed by the Iraqi Government on the produce of the gardens. British Officials discuss payment of export duty on garden produce from the Shaikh of Kuwait’s gardens in Iraq, and the allegations made by the Shaikh of Kuwait against the customs authorities at Faw.
The British Ambassador in Baghdad reports that because of the enforcement of the new tax law, the Iraqi Government is no longer able to make exempt from taxes the Shaikh‘s gardens' produce that has been exported from Iraq for the personal use of the Shaikh.
The volume includes a copy of minutes of a conference on the Shaikh’s date gardens held in Baghdad and minutes of an interdepartmental meeting held in London in regards to the gardens issue.
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, asks the Shaikh of Kuwait to provide full and detailed statements showing all payments and losses resulting from the imposition of Istihlak tax by the Iraqi Government. The Shaikh in turn provides six statements (ff 194-221):
- Statement I. Showing the amount levied as Istihlak tax from merchants purchasing and exporting dates in 1932.
- Statement II. Showing the amount levied as Istihlak tax from merchants purchasing and exporting dates in 1933.
- Statement III. Showing the amount levied from the Shaikh as Istihlak tax and under the heading 'Customs duties' on articles exported for the Shaikh’s private consumption.
- Statement IV. Showing the quantities of dates which the Shaikh was obliged to surrender from his own share to the fellaheen Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour. (peasants) working in his gardens under the Istihlak tax.
- Statement V. Showing the losses sustained by the Shaikh as a result of the disobedience of the fellaheen Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour. due to the introduction of the Istihlak tax.
- Statement VI. Showing the grand total of the above lists.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (225 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 227; 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 between ff 6-222; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- 'File 2/4 III TAXATION OF SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:5v, 7r:20v, 22r:28r, 29r:78v, 78ar:78av, 79r:111v, 114r:117v, 119r:132v, 134r:193v, 222r:227r, back-i
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