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Introduction of reforms, 1923

The hgunoy,
Bahrain.
Vorsian Gulf,
l<j<jc/l//(r
6/12/23
ft-
,',Uw no*3 of ;M jrhalifeh

Sir,
I hrvc tha Honour to report tlv.it shnilt Uonddd has recently askod
r.r once or tx• J.ci*' lately vihnthar hia montly allowance could not
hr increased. !!« in in receipt of Rupoou five thousand u month
plun .1 further five t.h:»uu: nd ontiirtiiinmon' nllov/nnco .U« possesses
property etc which bring hln :ln about anothor four thoaand a
nonth.Tn addition to this X sanctioned the puyraerrt of sonibttgg
like twenty tlnu.ar.nd ruproeo of beck debts when ho took over the

Deputy Rulership, to give hin si clour oturt & ha has al3o had
odd runs for specific purposes nmountin'; to about another six
thousmmT rupcoon during the last few months. You will remember
that ha undertook not to inoreauc any nllownijcos without oonsultlnj
mo A that X pointed nut to you the nooeasity for an undertaking
of thin nutu.ro to annum tha Troaaury being in fundn for tha
"revision of t.hn reforms dooidod upon or likely to be introduced

In the futu.ro . .'hailc Hnmad els® hii3 hia 0 fficnl Residence kapt
up for him out of the public 77orks fund A hiu income iu oolaly for
hia private needs % for antortaiiawent .Hiu grown up none hart
nopnrtne ni?ownncoa.I regret howovor that ha hue not tha remotest
idea of economy A appears to ba incupuhlo of refusing to givo

money to other numbers of tho family whan they bog of him,in
npito af the faot that they have all separate allowanoas. Ho
cont&nuoa to keep a stud of fifty horaoa A largo hordii of canola
in addition to aavarul motor oars A of oourao a ridiouloualy
lurga A worthless ratinue. I have constantly brought to his
notion the necessity for eoenomy(but although ho professes to
be cutting down hiu oxpendituro to « ninimun I regret I hare
baan able to dataot little reoult*

It la p.ouibl.,though ut thlB a tag, dlttloul*