"15/7 جزر حوار" [و‎‎٧‎١] (٥٤٠/١٤٦)

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registration fees and diving licenses. The people
of Hawar subsist on Bahrain and have no intercourse
with Qatar, in years when the local water supply
fails they obtain water from Bahrain, Those of
them who are divers hold diving books which are issued
by the Bahrain Government d
10 0 The authority of the Ruler of Bahrain
is and always has been exercised in Hawar v/here no
other authority is in force, both over the inhabi
tants and over all things moveable and immoveable*
The fidawis of the Shaikhs of Bahrain, in the past,
and the naturs, notice servers and State Police in
more recent times, have enforced the orders of the
rulers of Bahrain in the Hawar Islands by displaying
the official proclamations, by arresting malefactors,
by producing from Hawar persons whose presence is re
quired by the judicial authorities in Bahrain and by
enforcing the orders of the Ruler of Bahrain or his
courts over the people and properties in Hawar.
11. Particulars of cases tried in the Bahrain
Courts regarding disputes among the people of Hawar
about moveable and immoveable property are given
.HP ItMr
in the note attached to this letter* It will
be appreciated that until the present regime no
regular filing system or preservation of records
existed and a search for old cases regarding Hawar
has been unproductive and has only produced two
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judgments dated 1327 and 1328 Hejrah. These
judgments, signed by the late Ruler Shaikh Isa bin
Ali and the Sunni Kadi of Bahrain refer to land
rights and fishing traps at Hawar and the parties
concerned were, during their lifetime, inhabitants