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86 Records of Bahrain
CONFIDENTIAL .

No . <+U -s' of 1923 •
British Residency and Consulato-Gonoral ,
Hus hire , 25th August 1923.

From
The Hon'bio Lieut-Col. S .G .Knox , C.S.I. C.I .E . ,
politioal Roaldont in the Persian Gulf.
To
The political Agent ,
Balirain .

Sir ,

I have tho honour to acknowledge the reoeipt of
your memorandum No. 107-C dated 2 2nd August I923 on the
subjeot of allowances for the Al Khalifeh. I fully sym­
pathize with the difficulties with whioh you and Shaikh,.
Hamari are faced in theoe very neoeooary reductions of ex­
travagant expenditure but feel myself bound to enter a pro­
test against drawing on the surplus in hand from oolleotionB

on outstanding dues to the Customs, and should have pre­
ferred the roduotion of allowances all round when it waB

fotind that the monthly revenues were running low.
It may not be advisable to allow reourring ohargeB
on the Civil List to fluctuate from month to month but the
experience of a full year'B income will shortly no doubt
enable you to reduoe suoh reourring charges to their proper
proportion. SuoH payments , however , as are alluded to in
the closing paragraph of your letter , should at onoe be but
off with the utmost rigour when the monthly revenues are
unable to meet the oharge.
1 think 1 may safely take upon myself the respon­
sibility of assuring both Shaikh Hamad and yourself that
no intercessions by His Highness the Sultan of i1ejd in
favour of Shaikh 'Isa will have the smallest influenoe
. on .