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that they'may bring Into Bahrain and which are consign-
•d to that town.
(4) The taattor lo one of common Justloe, and he him­
self In no way hopes to be benifited. It In merely a
question of hit? subjects receiving l*air treatment. A
Hejdl bringing goode, for lnotance, from Uombay .to Uaea
has to pay the following now a dayo :-
Import Tax at Bahrain.
Ardhlyah in Bahrain, which amounts to about
2* 0.
Of aeoond Import tax at OJair.
Thus #is eubjeots pay 15^ tax on all oomoditlee before
they finally get their goods into lejd territories.
(6) le contends that the Bahrain 6f Tariff should only
be levied if the goods paeo through.the Customs into
the town.
(5) Shaikh Isa's argument that he (Bin Saud) has no
right to charge Of Import Tax at OJair or Qatlf, is no
argument. He, Bln Saud, would never dream of taxing
cargo landed at OJair or Qatlf whose eventual destlna-
was, say, Qatar.
The Turks used to charge a 10 ^ Import Tax pre­
viously to his taking over HaBsa. He has already re­
duced thin to Of,. He hopes still further to reduce
the tax when his finances are in better condition. lie
is a new State Just coming out of the tfrysilis of
ignorance, poverty and disorder, Me is struggling to
put hie house in order and is compelled, for the
present, to charge a high import tarif*

SHAIKH ISA'S CASE.
[9 exception o^bales the past' to having charged 5f on all
►ode on which ' He admltB in
ound sura of goods oomlng into Bahrain and on goods passing
iter Iff 35/- was
to&le.
through (tranship) Bahrain for lejd and other plaoes.
(2) In 1915 he found that owing to war restrictions

and poor trade generally, his Customs Revenues were
in the
KOinJ. down* This, added to the general increase