Description: 1920 Iraq: Mesopotamia Inland waters shipping proclamation, Regulations. OrgnlEd THE INLAND WATERS SHIPPING PROCLAMATION AND REGULATIONS 1919 by Major-General G.F. MacMunn, Officiating Commander-in-Chief, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force Baghdad, Printed at the Government Press, 1920. Hardcover. Black cloth boards over original printed paper wrappers. label with printed title on front board. Folio (33 cm. tall), v, 71, vi-vii pages, Index. Note: The cloth binding and the endpapers appear to be much later than the original 1920 contents. A very scarce bound volume containing a proclamation and detailed regulations governing all aspects of inland waters navigation issued in 1919 by the British military government of Mesopotamia following its conquest from the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The proclamation was issued by Major General Sir George Fletcher MacMunn who was the Officiating General Officer Commanding His Britannic Majesty’s Forces In Mesopotamia. The regulations following the prclamation wee issued in 1918 and 1919 and were signed by the military authorities as well as by A. Y. Wilson who was the Acting Civil Commissioner of Mesopotamia. These documents were all issued during the period before Great Britain was granted Mandatory power by the League of Nations over Mesopotamia and before the country changed its name to the Kingdom of Iraq after Feisal I was named the king. The inland waters of Iraq consist mainly of the Shatt-el-Arab, Tigris, and Euphrates rivers. Subjects: Inland navigation > Law and legislation > Iraq. Maritime law > Iraq.>br> CONDITION: Fine Covers / Very Good Contents. (The front wrapper has marginal wear, a small chipped corner, some soil at lower margin and small chip at upper edge, several notations. The Contents are complete, intact and clean except for very slight wear at the fore edge of a few pages, a small chipped and soiled corner on the Table of Contents page, and a faint stamp at the lower margin of one page .) Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items Listing and template services provided by inkFrog
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Topic: Ship Navigation
Binding: Cloth
Subject: Iraq
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Original/Facsimile: Original
Place of Publication: Baghdad
Year Printed: 1920
Country/Region of Manufacture: Iraq
