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would be of assistance In preventing It from
increasing* Almost dolly requcote for
increases and new allowances are made end It
lo difficult to restrain U* .* Shaikh Hamad
from approving of all of themio
The Khalifa family la rapidly lnoroaslng*

Ihcro are literally aoorcB of young oona who
are not yet of age* 5o attempts arc cade by
their paronta to oducatc them with the idea
of having to oarn anything In the future*
Khcn each boy marries hie fath r presses for
an allowance for him* If all of them are to
receive allowances in the future, the Civil
List will olowly cat up the v.hole of the
revenue*

Almost all tho Khalifas o~n property but
they drain it dry by squealing out every anna
of rent and by never spending money on keeping
up their gardens* As a result the value of
their gardens decreases*
protection* The second largest item of
recurrent expenditure* The State forces consist
of 108 Punjabi Police, 37 local Police, and
113 local armed watchmen* The Punjabi Polios
supply a guard to H* B* U's political Agent, a body

guard to U. Z* Shaikh Hamad and posts at lluharr&k
and Rufea* The balance are in U&n&ma* The
rest of tho foroe is in Hnnama and in Uuh&rrok*
The whole force is under the Command^ of Captain
1* S. Parke assioted by an Indian Officer and
two Amirs*
Protection absorbs 17,X of the total budgeted