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21. IOR/L/PS/10/1222

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1222
Title:
File 4537/1927 Pt 1-2 'Iraq: Kuwait and Mohammerah Date Gardens'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the matter of tax exemption on the date gardens in Iraq belonging to the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Shaikh of Mohammerah. The exemption was promised to the shaikhs by the British for assistance given during the First World War. The volume covers the inte...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1927-1933
Extent:
1 volume (1152 folios)

22. IOR/L/PS/12/2156

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2156
Title:
Coll 6/83 'Saudi Arabia: Exemption of Saudi nationals from Koshan tax.'
Scope & Content:
This file documents the British response to a recent Saudi royal command exempting Saudi nationals from paying a tax known as koshan (a tax levied on journeys from Jedda to Mecca or Medina) during the off-season, i.e. the four-month period of the year when pilgrims are not travelling to or retur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1937-12 May 1939
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)

23. IOR/L/PS/12/2854

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2854
Title:
Coll 17/8(2) 'Shaikh of Koweit's Estates: Date gardens of the Shaikh in Iraq'
Scope & Content:
This volume is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2853. It consists of extensive correspondence, memoranda and reports regarding date garden properties in Iraq owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, changes to their tax-exempt status, and lawsuits regarding their ownership. Properties owned by the Shaikh of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jan 1934-22 May 1936
Extent:
1 volume (619 folios)

24. IOR/L/PS/12/2855

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2855
Title:
Coll 17/8(3) 'Iraq. Shaikh of Koweits Estates. Date gardens of the Shaikh in Iraq.'
Scope & Content:
This volume is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2854. It consists of extensive correspondence, memoranda and reports regarding date garden properties in Iraq owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Shaikh of Mohammerah. The material concerns the ongoing lawsuits regarding the Shaikh of Kuwait's owner...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1936-29 Nov 1938
Extent:
1 volume (792 folios)

25. IOR/L/PS/12/2856

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2856
Title:
Coll 17/8(4) 'Shaikh of Kuwait's date gardens: litigation in Iraq Courts regarding the Faddaghiyah estate'
Scope & Content:
This file is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2855. It contains papers regarding legal cases brought against the heirs of Shaikh Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ (the Shaikh of Kuwait) by Abdullah bin Issa Pasha Al Zuhair, concerning the ownership of the date garden properties known as the Faddaghiyeh, the Bashiye...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Dec 1937-14 Sep 1943
Extent:
1 file (591 folios)

26. IOR/L/PS/12/2857

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2857
Title:
Coll 17/8(5) 'Shaikh of Kuwait's date gardens: litigation in Iraq Courts regarding the Bashiyah estate'
Scope & Content:
This file is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2856. It contains papers regarding legal cases brought against the heirs of Shaikh Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ (the Shaikh of Kuwait) by the heirs of Shafiqah Al Zuhair, concerning the ownership of the date garden properties known as the Bashiyeh: a suit filed by ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1938-24 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (120 folios)

27. IOR/L/PS/12/2858

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2858
Title:
Coll 17/8(6) 'Date gardens of the Sheikh of Koweit in Iraq: discharge of HMG's liability in respect of possession and exemption from taxation'
Scope & Content:
This file is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2857. It contains papers regarding the following: legal cases brought against the Shaikh of Kuwait (Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ) in respect of the ownership of date garden properties in Iraq; the subsequent institution of Land Settlement Procedure to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Nov 1938-10 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (425 folios)

28. IOR/L/PS/12/2886

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2886
Title:
Coll 17/24 ‘Iraq. Internal. New Iraqi Income Tax Law. Effect on British aircraft and shipping.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers mostly relating to the following: the objections of HM Government to Article 6 of the draft Iraq Salaries and Allowances Tax Law of 1930; and the liability of British aircraft and shipping companies operating in Iraq to income tax under Article 29 of the Iraq Income Tax ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Dec 1930-9 May 1935
Extent:
1 file (182 folios)

29. IOR/L/PS/12/2987

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2987
Title:
Coll 20/27 'Muscat: Taxation of British subjects'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, minutes, and memoranda concerning the taxation of British subjects Muscat and Oman. The file contains copy of the Muscat Order in Council, 1915 (folios 46-59), and subsequent amendments in 1922 (folio 45-45A) and 1935 (folio 44). The correspondence is between officials at the Po...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1937-28 Sep 1939
Extent:
1 file (57 folios)

30. IOR/L/PS/12/3410

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3410
Title:
Coll 28/14 ‘Persia; Municipal Taxation in’
Scope & Content:
Copies of correspondence exchanged between British officials (the Foreign Office, the Board of Trade, and the British Consulate at Sistan and Kain [Ka’īn]), and between Raymond Cecil Parr of the British Legation at Tehran, and the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mirza Mohamed Ali Khan Ferou...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
24 Jan 1931-9 Oct 1931
Extent:
1 file (35 folios)