مجموعة ٢٩/ ٧٣ "الأهواز: منح تعويض لشيخ المحمرة عن الأموال التي قدمها لإنشاء مبنى قنصلي في الأهواز" [و‎‎٨‎٢] (٣٣١/١٦٥)

(EM
Minute Paper.
POLITICAL
Department.
). Please see the orinati-^n at P.Z. 1878/34.
2. The Government of India have now agreed to accept
a moiety of the cost of repaying the Sheikhs Rs. 50,000,
on the understanding mentioned in our letter to India,
that the payment from Indian revenues is made without
prejudice to our view that the Government of India are
under no financial liability in respect of the pledges
given by H.M.G. to the Sheikhs of Mohammerah and Koweit
in 1914, and subject also to the condition that the
Sheikh waives all further claims on the Ahwaz site. The
latter condition, as will be seen from the correspondence
at P.Z. 4417/34, has also been made by the Treasury (who
have now also agreed to pay a moiety of the Rs. 50,000)
in respect of the payment to be made from Imperial
revenues, and it is of course in the interests of H.M.G.
rather than of the Govt, of India that the Sheikh should
waive all further claims to the site, since the former
intend to make use of the site for new consular
buildings if the heirs of the Moin-ut-Tajjar are able to
secure a clear title to the property. It will be
remembered that the Government of India have no further
interest in the Ahwaz site, since Ahwaz is nowpurely (?
Foreign Office post. When the Sheikh has waived all
claim to the site to the foundations and building
materials, the latter can be divided in equal moieties
between the Government of India and H.M.G. only. This
seems the simplest arrangement.
3, With regard to the foundations of the 1924
buildings, it appears that a part of these foundations
are standing full across an area which has now been
appropriated/
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