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Notes to Chapter Seven

was granted by the Ruler; but whether someone settled in the densely
built-up areas near the sue/ or further outside, the Ruler’s consent
always had to be obtained either personally or through the original
contact, the headman of the tribe or quarter.
16 Maktum bin Hashar (1894-1906) lived in the fort near Shindaghah and
used to come almost every morning to Dairah to talk to the merchants
and settle their disputes and problems. Buti bin Suhail (1906-12)
resided in an ordinary house near the creek in Dairah and visited Dubai
and Shindaghah frequently for the same purpose.
17 For many years during the rule of Shaikh Sa'fd bin MaktQm there was
one officially appointed qadi; after he died two qad/s were appointed.
See also above, pages 159f.
18 Gray Mackenzie and Co. opened an office in Basra in the middle of the
19th century to handle steamers of the British Indian Steam Navigation
Co., See Griffiths, Sir Percival, A History of the Inchcape Group, London,
1977, Inchcape & Co., Chapter Five, "The Gulf’.
19 Outside port limits the Persian Gulf Lighting Service maintained a
lightship and serviced all lights and buoys; nowadays this service is
performed by the Middle East Navigation Aid Service based in Bahrain.
Each ship pays a fee for this service, which is collected at the first port of
call.
20 See proclamation by the Ruler of Dubai issued on 21 July 1955: "In
pursuance of the general reorganisation of the Departments of our State,
we have decided that in future all customs duty shall be paid direct to
the Official Customs banking account, we have opened with the British
Bank of the Middle East, and to this end we have decreed that in future
no institution, whether Shipping Agents, Airline representatives orPost
Officer, functioning in our territory may issue a Delivery Order or deliver
goods, to the consignee(s) or his (their) order unless the Bill of Lading, or
document tendered in place thereof, is supported by the Customs
Receipt of the British Bank of the Middle East, Dubai, evidencing that
Customs Duty has been received by them for the credit of our official
Dubai Customs Account.”
21 See below, pages 255ff.
22 See also pages 152f, 231ff and 288ff.
23 A civil air agreement to provide night-stop facilities for Imperial
Airways was signed on 23 July 1937.
24 As in the agreement with other Trucial Rulers and the Sultan of Oman,
the royalty was fixed at 3 Rupees per ton once oil exports started.
(Longrigg, St H. Oil in the Middle East, 3rd edn., London, 1968, p. 116).
The annual rent was some 50,000 Rupees.
25 See above, page 219 and footnote 48 of Chapter Six, see also IOR.
R/15/1/236 "Arab States Monthly Summary 1929-31", July 1929.
26 The following quotation from a Report for the Department of Overseas
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