"14/169 الخلافات بين الشيخ راشد شيخ أم القيوين وأخيه ناصر بن أحمد، يونيو ١٩١٢ إلى ٢٢ يناير ١٩١٧" [و‎‎١‎٤‎٥] (٤٤٧/٣٠١)

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Dated 29th Rabi 11,1332 (=27th March 1914)1
Fron -Shaikh Naser bin Ahmad, Hhariah.
jor Knox,
Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and Ills
Majesty's Consiu-GeneraI for Pars.
AVC.
This is a petition from your sincere friend Jlaser
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bin Ahmad, one of the Shaikhs of Umm-iu-Oaiwain.
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I beg to convey to your Honour my best than
gratitude for the kind offices which you afforded
return for the oopression exnerienced by from my brother
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haikh Hashed ) without any justification. He exne'lled n
from ray native country by force, and seized all tne
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estate of mjr father consisting of cash to the ext ! snt of
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six lakhs rupees and of twenty thousand date-palms on
the lands of Falai, as weii as claims with Arabs I
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a considerable amount of cash which he had taken
me personally at times when he was short of funds
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also a quantity of teak wood, chandals and furnit
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As was deemd fit in the opinion of the Exa
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Imperial Government, I accepted ten thousand rupei
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against the aaid articles which were with my brother
shaikh Hashed^and five thousand rupees against il
against the people of Umm-ul-Qaiwain (this amount!
taken)after these are proved. I had t® only to ac
Your Honour's view and I am under oblip-ations for
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e ciaims
to be
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kindness. Ibeg to point out to iour Honour, howeiiver,
the
that both I ani my family have been brought up ins
administration of our town of Umm-ul-Oiawain and
we are unable to undertake any business except Government
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works. "his sum of ten thousand rupees will not
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for our expenses in one year.
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So