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(Manamah Municipality)

The lengthy disagreement involving H. 3. Shaikh
Hamad, the Bahrain government and the municipality
with Mr. Yusuf Khunji, the Manchester merchant 7/as
finally settled.

Liability for municipal taxes. A resolution
which the government has been urging on the munici­

pality for several years was passed by the Majlis
to the effect that landlords, not tenants, are liable
for the payment of municipal taxes on their property.
It is an achievement to have secured the acceptance

of this principle in Manamah, it was suggested in
Muharraq, but opposed by almost all the members.

Anti-Miilcrial measures. A pump worked by an oil
engine was kept working for several months pumping
the water out from the swamp south of the town into

a channel which carried it down to the sea.
Two women were appointed to report to the munici­
pality cases of persons allowing mosquitoes to breed

in wells inside their houses. Petrol v/as sprayed
onto stagnant water on the south of the town.

The council passed orders that all unreclaimed
ground adjacent to the sea road should be filled in.
Unfortunately these orders were not carried out and

it was eventually decided that owing to the general
shortage of money the owners could not be expected
to undertake the filling in.

Ifanicinal garden. The municipal garden, which is
much,frequented by the public, especially during the

summer evenings, has been repaired and put in order.
The water channels have been cleaned out and cemented
so that they are no longer a breeding place ior raos-

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