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remained in charge of tha medical side of the work at Mat rah.
. SLAVERY#
34 slaves applied for manumission certificates during
tho year under report and 29 were granted# Of the 34 applicants
14 were domestic slaves, and the remainder taptured slaves.
f. ENEMY ACTIVITIES#
Nil.

WEATHER.
Total rainfall during tho year under report was 6.55 inches#
There was no rainfall in January.

PART II
RULING FAMILY#
(a) His Highness Saiyid Said bin Tairaur. - Kis Highness the
Sultan resided at Muscat up to the 16th January when he left for
Salalah. He left Salalah for Cairo on 1st April where he
visited His Majesty King Farouk. He spent 39 days in Jerusalem
under the treatment of an Austrian Jew doctor# The trouble he
has been experiencing in his stomach was according to His
Highness completely relieved. He returned to Salalah on the
15th June. His Highness left Salalah for India on the 24th
December.

(b) Saiyid Shihab bin Faisal. - He continued as Minister
for External Affairs throughout the year#
(c) Saiyid Taimur bin Faisal# - The ex-Suit an continued to
live in Borrbsy throughout the year#
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(d) Saiyid AhnLd bir? Ibrahim. - remained in office as
Minister for Internal Affairs throughout the year.
(c) Saiyid Tarik bin Taireur. Remained v/ith the Zhob
Militia until middle of September and then conmenced his civil
training in the Baluchistan Secretariat and thereafter under
the Political Agent, Chagai.
(f) Saiyid Fahr bin Taimur. Was at the Mayo College,
Ajmer, throughout the year.
H. MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS.
The Muscat Municipality carried out various improvement
during tha year. These consisted of the acquisition of old
houses and their demolition for the construction into open
spaces. The mud walls in various narr6w streets were replaced
by stone walls. The road was broadened. Contracts for the
removing of rubbish were also given. The Matrah Municipality
was not so active and the friction between the Khoja and Arab
communities in the spending of sums collected during the year
continued. A certain amount of road cleaning was carried out.
The Municipality also repaired the pass to Matrah which
was damaged by rain, and also some roads in the Muscat.
31. EDUCATION.
Anwar al Tamiml, a Palestinian, was headmaster of the
local primary school throughout the year. He went on leave to
Palestine and there recruited another Palestinian teacher,
Abdul Qadir as Sawwan, and returned with him to Muscat in