This volume comprises parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 of 8. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq], particularly in relation to the sale, leasing or granting of land in the occupied territories to persons or companies that are not domiciled inhabitants...
Coll 54/3 'Middle East (Official) Committee Working Party. Country by Country Studies'
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The file contains: Middle East (Official) Committee Working Party papers received by the External Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO); and a register of the papers received (found at the back of the file), with very brief internal notes between Robert (William Doughty) Fowler a...
Memorandum by Sir W. Lee-Warner on the Lease to France of a Coaling Station in Muskat Territory - Statement of our Case (Political No. 1837/99).
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A memorandum describing how it had emerged that the Sultan of Muskat had granted the French a concession to establish a coaling station on his territory, and stating that the Sultan had only produced the text of the concession upon threat of bombardment by the British. The memorandum goes on to d...
File 31/8 File No:- 1-B/7(a) Major Head: Administration. Sub: Head:- General. Subject:- Land Tenure in Bahrain. Sub file. MUNICIPAL MEAT MARKET & SLAUGHTER HOUSE.
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The file contains correspondence about land tenure in Manamah, specifically over the municipal meat market and slaughterhouse. The majority of the correspondence is between the Captain Everard Huddleston Gastrell, Political Agent, Bahrain, and the President, Manama municipality, as well as Shaik...
File 31/8 1 b/7. AL KHALIFAH PROPERTY IN BAHRAIN. (Municipal Meat Market and Slaughter House)
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The file begins with a letter and note from Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, to the British Political Agent, Bahrain, explaining the issue concerning disputes over landownership in Bahrain based on the practice of Shaikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa of giving out scrap...
Correspondence to and from representatives of the Bahrain Sports Club, concerning aspects of the club’s administration, its accommodation, and fundraising activities. Some correspondence in the file alternatively refers to the Club as the Bahrain Recreation Club, and the Bahrain Cricket Club, th...