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Notes to Chapter Seven

February 1929, repeated in a letter from the SNO then at Bombay,
to the Political Resident in Bushire, revising his earlier statement,
L/P & S/12/3766.
31 See for a description of the various circumstances in which these many
clashes took place from 1929, a collection of the IOR R/15/1/285 "Unrest
at Dubai and Trucial Coast Policy 1934-36".
32 See for the following Rosemarie J. Said, "The 1938 Reform Movement in
Dubai" in: Al-Abhath, A Quarterly Journal for Arab Studies Published
by the American University, Beirut, vol. XXIII, nos. 1-4, Dec. 1970, pp.
247-318. Many details of the plans, achievements and frustrations of
the "Majlis" are given in the correspondence which was conducted
between the leaders of the reform movement, the Ruler and the
Residency Agent in Sharjah. This material was deposited with the
Political Agent in Bahrain and is now in the IOR under R/15/2/1882. The
entire collection was transcribed by R. Said and forms the documentary
part of her paper on the movement (pp. 264-318).
33 See for the following Rosemarie Said, Al-Abhath, p. 258. This idea is
voiced in a letter by Hashar to Sa'id (p. 308 of Appendix) in which he
tries to convince the Ruler that the income from oil concessions and the
air facilities should be added to the state funds so that the well-being of
the state could be promoted. This is an important letter because it gives
in six points the principles of the ideas of the Majlis on "constitutional
rule" in Dubai.
34 The first school, called al Ahmadiyah, was opened on 10 Shawal (3
December 1938). As soon as it opened 200 students were enrolled; three
teachers and a servant were appointed to it. Al Sa'ada school opened
with two teachers for 60 students and oi ’y days later al Falah
(Falasah?) school was opened with three teachers in Dubai; see letter
from Mani' to Sa'id of 15 December 1938 in Said, Al-Abhath, Appendix
p. 283.
35 The first well on the Trucial Coast was spudded at Ra’s al Sadr in Abu
Dhabi territory in February 1950. After 13 months’ drilling the well was
abandoned and the rig was moved to Jabal *Ali, a hill to the west of
Dubai, which according to a recent delimitation made by the Political
Resident was inside the shaikhdom of Dubai (see Longrigg, Oil, p. 233).
36 A sum of money was given to the Ruler of Sharjah, Shaikh Saqr bin
Sultan, by the Ruler of Qatar to improve the creek, but it was never used
for that purpose.
37 The dredging provided about 7 feet of water at low tide and 12 feet at
high tide over the shallowest part at the entrance to the creek. The spoil
from dredging also proved very welcome to protect Shindaghah, where
the beach was eroding away.
38 By 1966 two steel-piled, fendered wharfs, each with 60-feet-wide heavy
duty pavements were completed. The East Wharf had 270,000 square

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