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and so introducing a regular Date Tax,
(d) Selling arable land for wheat and barley purposes
and bo introducing a. Regular fcand Revenue.
(e) Parking the fisheries.
(f) Sheep and camel tux.
Hot to mention the various Municipal Taxes which every municipal-
ity has a ri^nt to levy. As it is , none of the above souroes
of revenue are tapped^ nor does Land, Date or Municipal Revenue
exist oven in name, and thie by reason of the auioidal polioy
of the Shaikh who has forbidden any land to be owned by any one
but himself. Result i The island remains a dreadfully badly
managed ,and rapidly decaying private Estate(wlth no revenues
accruing from it at all. There reruinn the "Austens". Praotl-

cally the whole of ^haikh 1 s& 1 0 inoome is obtained from thie
source. Yet hero again, he appears utterly lnoapable of putting
even his own Cue toms Mouse in order. I oetimate that hio ouetomi
roughly should bring in IS to 20 Lakho of rupees per annum. It
aotually brings in from 7 to 10 Lakhs. The soandalously managed
Syndicate which runs the oustomo must be held responsible for
the deficiency.
I,further, recommend the quashing of this inoipient
trouble at once, before it io allowed to grow bigger and give
us endless trouble. Bin Maud, now a days, imagines he is sur­
rounded by enemies, all trying to fleeoe him in some way or othexj
his attitude la rather that of a lioness robbed of her cubs. Froi
bent
what I saw of him lately he seems^on getting what he oulle
Justice ^one to hio subJeotB. Should he fall to get this present
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oomplaint attended to, it will only make him more bitter, than ht
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is already He will only retaliate by putting an embargo on
sheep, ghi and dates, and the stupid and short-sighted polioy of
! Shaikh Isa will only oone’baok^to his own head. Mor oan Mis
?.’• Majesty's Government afford td see *ln Baud starting a quarrel
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• with the Ruler'of Bahrain, his Eastern neighbour. I reoommend
Shaikh Isa be ordered to remove the inoreaoed taxation and go _
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make more revenue, the opportunity le a good one, he might be