"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٤‎٥‎٢] (١٧٨٢/١٦٠٧)

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Donation by
an Indian
Nawab for
clearing the
Husainiyah
Canal, 1863.
Injuries to
and claims
of British
Kubjocts,
1866.
autliorising Messrs, Lynch to replace one of their old steamers by a new
one, and also to employ a steam launch in exceptional cases and when
the river was low.
Messrs. Lynch & Co, appear as early as 1870 to have assumed,
perhaps on * taking other capitalists into partnership, the stvle of the
"Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company"; but this designa
tion has never been recognised by the Turks, who to the present time
insist on describing the Company as " Lynch's,"
By 1863 or probably earlier, the Husainiyah Canal, on the clearance
of which large sums were spent by His Highness the Mir of Sind
between 1836 and 1842, had again become choked with silt. A sum of
about £10,000 having been devoted to the purpose of clearing it by
u an Indian Nawab, since dead,"—not otherwise described but in all
probability a British subject, — Namiq Pasha, on whom the duty of
expending the money had somehow devolved, deputed the "Egyptian
trained engineers on his staff to make an estimate of the work and
report upon the best mode of carrying it into effect."
In 1866, as has been shown in the section on the internal history of
the province, British subjects or dependants were among the sufferers by
various burglaries which occurred in Baghdad city ; and it does not
appear that they obtained any substantial redress.
In August 1866 a somewhat amusing correspondence took place
between the British Political Agent at Baghdad and the local authorities
with reference to a bale of 65 pieces of calico, the property of a British
subject and worth 4-23i Qrans, which had been plundered more than a
year before on the road between Ba'qubah and Shahraban, Some of the
robbers were captured, in his own jurisdiction, by Taqi-ud-Din Pasha,
Governor of Kirkiik, who recovered from them the sum of 148 Qrans
and remitted it to Baghdad, remarking that the balance was due by
their associates, who were still at large. Colonel Kemball, however,
demurred to a settlement on these lines and in writing to Namiq Pasha
observed: "1 beg, however, to submit to Your Excellency that the
" practice of holding each robber responsible for his share of property
plundered in company is scarcely just. In commercial transactions the
" liability of a partner may very properly be limited to the amount of
>f capital he may have contributed to the concern; but such a principle
could hardly be extended to malefactors, and I venture to hope that
# Tbe EupbratdB and Tigris Steam Kavigation Company" was incorporated, howafer,
in April 1861.