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Thio point la Important alnoo the work would be fairly arduous
£ noone would bo keon on It unless there v»o oomething to ho got o
cf it. Thoy would hnvo to ait about four timeo a week for a month
boforo tho diving and a month after & once a week in tho interim
to attle dioputeB. There ohould be the right to appeal to the
Joint Court i.e to tho Uoir Apparent & tho P.A, With these safe­
guards & owing to the fact that thore are oeveral mombers the
Court could hardly booorae oorrupt us i0 the oaoe with the present
'Salifoh'. Without a raombor of the Ruling family to give it »tone»
the Hakhudao would bo ridicule the members for aooopting payment
that nobody v/ould accept the Job,& without remuneration it would
be unroaaonablo to expeot ao much publio servioo.
If you think the aoheme reaaonable I would propose to talk the

matter over with Hamad & Abdhlla. Tho latter would,I think,like
the Job Cr. haa the bruins to moke it a oaooooa & if well paid
will proboBiJy keep strifcfcht . It would disturb a a little aa
poaaible tho existing customs & we ohould not obviously be ti
tho originutora of the reform but would
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aeom to be supporting tho 3balk in carrying it out'*
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E. Justice, Iwrote you a private letter on thio subject
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some time back,in which I auggeoted the abo3,itlqn of the
Agency Court & the hearing of oil oaoos in ti\fl .j’oint Court,
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Owing to the extremely bitter relations in Bahrain between
Sunnia & shaihs,which attitude haa,for their own end8 .been
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deliberately encouraged by the rulers for yoarpt^r'8etvXXO
poooibility of obtaining Juntioe for ahaihs in purely
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native Court. OroBa injustice oould not ooour iir W Joint
Court ti the nmaohinery already oxioto. Aa at aet-o^fo for the
P.A. sitting on u court taking ouses botweoh Bahrain 'Wbjedts,
tho Rulers reprooontative would also have a yolof^ln oases
between British subjeoto & British proteoted ^ab^dotatwhloh
might be represented to him as being more d^g^ified than
tho present system whereby ho has no voice in attahV a sea.
whioh owing to the fuot that nearly all tjhe‘ trk^it.ito Is in

foreign hands,form the majority of oases. At prfsent the