مجموعة ٣٠/ ٣٦ "البحرين: ادعاء يوسف لطفعلي خنجي، وهو أحد الرعايا الفارسيين، ضد الشيخ حمد فيما يخص مصنع للثلج" [و‎‎٣‎٥] (٣٤٠/٦٩)

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9. I now received a letter dated the 30th January 1931 from
Mr.Xhunji*s solicitors infori:ing me that they had "been in
communication with the India Office,and that from the infom-
aticn they had recei ved it appeared that the position was not
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quite as set out in my letter (of 32nd November 1930} aad they
added that they .entirely failed to appreciate iay statement that
the Joint Court 'decides such cases according to local custom 1 .
'they algo stated that it would be inequitable after a person
had been exercising his business for some time that he should
be deprived of the right to carry it on ’without any other
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neason than apparently caprice or whim of some one claiming to
have a ri^it’. They also stated that the Municipality had
committed an actionable wrong by entering thei'r client’s
premises and working his plant without his consent* A copy
of this letter was forwarded to the Hon’hle the Political
Resident* At the same time the solicitors wrote to His
Excellency Shaikh Hamad and informed him that neither under the
Order in Council or Indian Law was there any authority enabling
him to grant a monopoly to the Manama Municipality and asked
him to get into touch with the Municipality and get the matter
adjusted according to their respective rights* Failing this,
they said,their client would have no alternative but to take
all necessary steps to protect his interests.
10. I replied to this in my letter Ho:404- dated the 23rd
March 1931, of which a copy was sent to the Secretary at Bushire
and the Adviser to the Bahrain G-overnment. In this letter I
declined to enter into an argummt as to what constituted
’local customs’,but pointed out that the Shaikh required no
authority of an Order in Council or Indian Law to grant mono
polies as it was inherent in his sovereign power.
(q) 11. In another letter dated the 28th March 1931,the solicitors
informed me that unless I would attend to their client’s
interests they proposed to communicate with the India^f Office,
asking then to take it up officially. I pointed out that their