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Records of Bahrain Introduction of reforms, 1923

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No. -a or 1923.
exo bound to arise »nd 1 confidently antloipate from ny
British Reaidenoy aad Consulate-General t
Bus hire , lat July 1923. exp*ri$ao« in Irai that the Bahrain Foreigners * Court und‘tt
tho Bahrain Order in Counoll would, In good and oapable b^nd»

The lion 'bie Lieut-Col. bo yory soon entirely self-supporting. ,!
d .0 .Knox, C .6 .1. , 0 .1 .hi • ,
Politioal Resident in the It la at present almost Impossible for the Polit­
Persian Gulf. 3-
ical Agent, worried a* h4 la with cleaning out the AUgeah
D . de 3 . Bray , Eaq .
0.3.1. C.1^9. , O.B JJ. , atsblea of the Custom In Bahrain , to give the neoesaary
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Foreign Seoretory to the time that would be Involved in preparing an estimate of the
Government of India
in the Foreign aad amount of judicial revenues that might b* expected If court
Politioal Department.
work wen taken up properly fcy an experienced whole time
AV-i’Olntm.nt of a Prltl.h"L.8i8tNnt to tte otffioei who could devote himself to the proper working of th(*
olitioal Agent, Bahrain.
Bahrain Order in Ccunoil.
Sir ,
4 . Owing to the ml lux oi loreigneru whioh may fatfcly
1 have the honour to acknowledge be presumed to bo duo to the satiel \otlon they feel at the
the reoelpt of your
letter No. I083/I466-K dat*d
14th June 1923 on the eubjeot seourlty alforded to them under the present regime whereby
of the appointment ol
a British A6distant to the Politioal juried lotion over foreigners has been ceded to the repres­
Agont , Bahrain,
In reply to mragra^h £ 2 of your letter entative ol t\v protecting ;ower, ti*o revenues of the Al
oited above 1 venture
to clear the ground by stating that 1 Khalifah have improved in a manner entirely unpreofrdented
realised from the outset that
any proposals involving an add­ in the past and 1 linn no impropriety in calling upon the
itional charge on Indian revenues would be hopeless at the
Shaikh to oontitbute, should It unfortunately be necessary,
present Junoture and my proposal was that Bahrain revenues
towards the 0ost ol Riving loreignera a properly constitut­
should take all receipts Iron oourt
fees and bear the entire ed qourt where their olaima among themeelvea will reoelve
ooat of the proposed appointment*, further that if, as I hoped
lull consideration and even-handed j-stloe.
would not b® the owe any additional expenditure was invol­
5 • 1 had not forgotten when «end ing my telegram that
ved f that surplus ex^er*!! ture should be met
from Bahrain
there wtu* an existing appointment of an Indian AS*iat-*at,
Customs revenues.
but I regret to say that i am oonvinoed rrc&Q personal rea-
2 .
The position of Bahrain is peouliar and at my reoentf
oons connected with Shaikh Hamad that an Indian Assistant'
visit there 1 w*s greatly atruok by the inoreused wealth of
^ill not meet the case. There 13 no doubt that neither
the islands . Bahrain jear 1 roerohants from kanameh, the for­
-a-aba nor Per*iun* are H'o^rea to w.loo*. euoh an •vpolat-
eigners* town, now proofed direot to Paris without the Inter­
oont and if for a »ca.«t it w* vroyou.d to hand 0v«r to sudh
mediary ol any midd lemon and have I am informed , establish­
an assistant the duties of a civil judge or magistrate, the
ments in P*r.is. and London where they pell their pearls direot
appointment would not cor..mund re spool.
to customers . 11 tho Politioal agent's proposals as to aur-
6 . It is a matter oi regret to me to hear that my
vey and settlement go forward , important oivil legal qUeatlo&e
•1 proposal that the Assistant »'olltio*l agent, Bahrain, or,
*** 1 nhould prefer to o*ll him, the Judioial adviser to the

Bahrain