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cfforto which aciove nothing and only make his position
cxtreraoly difficult.
3. So fur the brunt of keeping the civil li3t
at a reasonable figure has been borne by Mr. Eclgruve,
He hue consistently warned the political authorities of the
situation and while doing his bent to oheck increauco
hau pointed out that ho can not do so without strong
oupport,
I have on my file a dumi-off icial^No. 527/S
of Cth Docomber 1926 in which Captain Hornor forwarded to
my predecessor a liut showing the allowanceo of the
Muocat ruling family and saying that ’ this may holp
Bclgruvc in determining questions of allowances to thu
al Khalifa family,* It is well known that Mr, Bolgruvo’s
chief trouble lies in restricting the Shaikh’s generosity

to himself and his oono, and I submit that it is not
for Mr, Bolgravc, the Shaikh’s paid servant, to determine
v/hut his master may or may not take from the State funds,
ana in suggesting that he should do uo wc have shirked
our responsibility and have attempted to saddle Mr,
Bolgrave with an unpleasant duty which should be borne

by broader shoulders which may woll make his position
untfinable,
4, We cun not divcDt ourselves of this responoi-
-bility, for Shaikh Hamad left to liimoclf would rapidly
eat up tlie entire revenues and the work of the past six
years would be undone at once. The Bahrain allowances
generous in the first place and only fixed as a temporary
measure at 4,44,000 huve now risen to 5,15,000, and, if
other payments to the ruling family bo considered,
nearly, 5,50,000, Theoo other amounts are an elusive
total and include His Excellency^percentage on sheep and

goats landed at Bahrain, free education at Beirut for
throe sons of the ruling fomily at a coot of noarly
5»000, additional hums for entertainment of vioiting
Shaikhs