Machine transcription
معلق
such an intricate form that it is impossible to distinguish the real property from that added afterwards. We, therefore, considering all such properties as rightly belonging to the public treasury, ordain that all such lands, shops, etc., which now are included in the private royal assets be transferred to the public treasury of the nation and the office relative to the private property be abolished.
(Sd.) H. M. THE KING.
2 Aqrab 1308.
(25th October 1929).
قناعت In addition to this frugality and the reduction of the expenses of the royal house-hold, the King had the generosity to issue
مدر معاش another firman granting liberal stipends to the brothers and relatives of the ex-King. Another noteworthy proclamation of the King known as the Khat-i-Mashi deals with the future programme of his Government. The previous kings of the country did not work under any definite programme; one day one thing was done, and the next day another; and the will of the king could undo either. There was no goal or aim to be achieved.
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