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PRIVATE . '
The Realdenoy
f
Pus hi re, 30th June 1923 .

yy donr Daly ,
The following oo^len 0f private
oorroBpondoQoe
botween myueli and Dray will
no doubt interest and exasperate
you ftfl they hflve done me . Thoy must of oouroe not bt quoted
in any olfioial oorrnspondonoe .
What I want you to do now in to pave the way with
SUlKh liAJLOd I want him to reallde that if w« oan over-

ooiLe tlus pernicious departmental vio Inertia# , he muat he
prepared to jay out o 1 pahr-iin Cur tons revenues , some initial
oost whioh I have every reason to believe will be fully repaid
to him • Further , that he must be prepared to surrender to
be spent by the Foreigners' Court for Foreigners , all Jvxliolal
reoeipta Including - and this is most important - all costs of
exeoutlon proceedings whioh form part of the ordinary revenues
of a oourt of juatioe . 1 an. under a vague impression that as
oivil executions were j;eriarmod by and through fidawis , they
vsed , probably at exorbitant rates , to be the perquisites of

the Amire. put of course I am talking oi fifteen years bade
and you may have ohanged all that , and it may be unnecessary

to go into worrying details with Shaikh Hamad n°w. Fidawis
oould b« replaced by Court ball ills enlioted , paid for and ree-f
ponslble qy oivi to t.he Court whioh would only in emergencies
enlist the old 0i the L'xecativo. Home oonvernations of thl*
kind warning SUioh Jiamod oi w'nat is in front of him would be
moat useful when the tiiie;>oomoo to oeoore his formal consent.* .
1 need not go ovor, i.ero , the general prinoipleu ifhioh to my
Kind entirely justify our demand on the Bahrain Customs. you
will find them all in my letter to Prey, I hope that in the
end the demand WU1 be very email, verhape even the 0ourt b«OOM
a paying proportion «nd give norne contribution toward# th*
j
oost of polioe. 1
yours sincerely

^Jor
c 'K.Daly ,
p°lltioal agent, Pahrnin.