مجموعة ١٠/١٧(١) "شؤون داخلية: الوضع السياسي؛ العلاقات مع الحكومة البريطانية" [و‎‎٢‎٢‎٦] (٩٨٢/٤٥٦)

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EASTERN (Iraq).
CONFIDENTIAL.
July 8, 1935.
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Sir A. Clark Kerr to Sir Samuel Hoare.—(Received July 8)
(No. 358.) ?
Sir
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THE Iraqi Government have recently issued new regulations governing the
organisations of the Ministries of the Interior and Finance, and I have the honour
to enclose herein a schedule showing the departments and sections of which these
two Ministries will in future be composed. The full texts of the regulations will
be forwarded to you when they are published in the English edition of the Official
The changes which have been made in the Ministry of the Interior are
intended to be a first step towards the improvement of the Administration of the
country, of whose defects so much has recently been heard.
3. The Directorate-General of Municipalities has been revived and will. I
understand, be chaiged with the primary duty of ensuring a good supply of
drinking-water to every town in the country.' A new Department of Tribal
Affairs bus been created, which wdll be entrusted with the administration of the
Tribal Civil and Criminal Disputes Regulation, with the preparation of schemes
for the gradual settlement on the land of nomadic tribes and with the adminis
trative settlement of tribal disputes concerning land and water rights.
4. The Department of Propaganda and Publicity is also a new creation.
Its duties will be to administer the Press Law, to control foreign publications
entering Iraq and to arrange for the dissemination abroad of suitable information
concerning the economic and political life of the country.
5. The new regulations for the Ministry of Finance raise the status of the
State Properties and Trade sections to that of departments under a Director-
General, but otherwise make no noteworthy change.
6. The duties of the advisers in both Ministries remain substantially the
same as under the previous regulations.
I have, &c.
ARCHIBALD CLARK KERR.
Minister
Adviser
The Director-General
Administration
The Director-General
Municipalities
The Director-General
Tribal Affairs
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Enclosure 1.
The Composition of the Ministry of the Interior under the Regulation of
June 1935.
The Judicial Secretary.
The Accounts Section.
The Personnel Section.
The Correspondence Section.
The Translation Section.
The Archives Section.
The Frontiers Section.
The Interior Section.
The Technical Section.
The Administration and Accounts Section.
The Labour Section.
The Tribal Disputes Section.
The Tribal Settlement Section.
The Land Disputes Section.
Police.
Prisons.
_ Census.
of Propaganda and Publicity,
of Public Health.
The Director
The Director
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The Director
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