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Financial arrangements of the ruling family, 1940-1941 69
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have reached a total of Kb.12,77,000/-

or lie.2,53,400/- per annum In addition
to the ordinary Civil Li at of lie. 2,08,234/*
In the previous 6 yeare they only
received Rs.26,000/- in addition to the
uaual Civil List, This ia, of oourae,
an enormoue increase, and if they

organise their affairo oarefully like
othex*people they should be more than
eatiafied with this amount.* If Your
Highneaa wishes to inoroaae thia atlll
further I oan only suggest that the

amounts be paid from your own income
which had a balance of 3 lakhs last
year and hue a large balance at the
moment. Your savings now amount to
over 17 lakhs which should suffice for

any present needs, and also a reduction
oould now be made in the lis.l, 14,000/-
paid to bedouin. As recently as 1355
only Rs.30,000/- was paid, and large

numbers of people who do not belong to
Bahrain and who have no claims whatever
on it are now receiving large sums of
money. I am afraid, however, thot
the more you give the Family the more
they will want from you.
5. We do not desire anything

exoopt the prosperity of Bahrain.
When the Btate was poor we regretted
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