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Shaikhs and other, items which need o. trained detective to
discover. This 5^ lakhs is roughly three timoo thut
paid by the Muocat Stute to ita ruling family and iu
more than half the budgettod income for the ycur, and
tlie time hao oomc tc tukc action.

5. Hie Excellency hao juDt approached Ur. Uolgravc
for an incroaoe of his allowanccu. Last year hie total

income was 2,25,000 of which the amount from the Stato
waa 1,81,000, 32,000 from bio warkot property and the
reut from garden rente. Ho should have received another
1 16,000 hut a tenant went bankrupt. His expenditure during
the year wao 2,38,000 of which 25,000 was distributed
a3 prosento. Ur. Belgrave pointed out to Hie Excellency
that hie income from Bunrain was roughly the same ao
that of the Viceroy’s, but Hio Excellency who a aw in-
-congruity in their relative positionu immediately oaid
that the Viceroy almost certainly had land in England. I
quote thin to chow how little he roaliouu what a drain
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he ic on the State, and liow littlo he dooo in return for
his puy. Ho might porhupo be told that oxcopting his cons
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ana daughters,’ only uix of King George’s relations are
sujjported by the State.
: 6, Ac regards the rect of the al Khalifa tho
situation ic infinitely worre, I find that this hordo of
idlo mouthc receive 28,072£per mensem from the State, T’ ’ o
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dooo not include the sums paid to certain of them to act
ac magistrates, for tho al Khalifa consider that thoy
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should be handsomely compensated to givo up tho oloth that
. . is their birthright, and will do nothing for tho State
unless suitably remunerated. In hio letter C 21 duted tho. .
21ot of January 1927 my predecessor infprnicd you thut all
the members of the al Khalifa considered thcmselYos entitled
by virtue of their birth to a share in tho loot of Bahrain.
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