File 339/1905 ‘Koweit: - Political Agency. Expenditure. Steam Launch’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- File 339/1905 ‘Koweit: - Political Agency. Expenditure. Steam Launch’
- Date:
- 1904/1914
- Description:
- Abstract: The main contents of the volume are exchanges of letters about government expenditure on the Kuwait Political Agency, primarily between British officials at the Foreign Office, India Office and Treasury in London and Government of India officials at the Foreign Department in Calcutta and Simla. They discuss cost estimates and actual expenditure in relation to the approval of Government of India proposals for the expansion of the cadre of the Indian Political Department in order to fill Consular posts in Persia, 1904-1905 and 1909; the establishment of a new Political Agency at Kuwait (spelt Koweit), 1904-1907 and the purchase of the steam launch Lewis Pelly, built at the Government Dockyard in Bombay, for the use of the Political Agent at Kuwait, 1906-1907, 1909-1912 and 1914. The volume also contains a sea chart of Kuwait Port, by the Marine Survey of India in 1905.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 182; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Government spending
Government personnel - Geographic region:
- Kuwait
- Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000365.0x00039a_ar
81055/vdc_100000000365.0x00039a_en
IOR/L/PS/10/69
IOR/L/PS/10/69