‘Persian Gulf. Passes to be produced by vessels belonging to ports in the Persian Gulf trading to India-’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Passes to be produced by vessels belonging to ports in the Persian Gulf trading to India-’
- Date:
- 1847/1848
- Description:
- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 31 January 1848. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2238/112322, alongside details of further enclosures. The item is the fifty-ninth in a series of fifty-nine items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item relates to the issue of whether vessels from the ‘Persian or Arabian’ Gulfs require passes in order to obtain the privilege of paying single duties on the goods they import to Bombay [Mumbai], as opposed to the double duties charged for ‘foreign bottoms’ [goods carried on foreign vessels]. Henry Young, the Collector of Customs at Bombay, notes that not all vessels from the Gulfs have carried such passes. Young cites several cases where merchants and leaders have petitioned for refunds after being charged double duties. An audit of such a claim is present at folios 630-631.The item also relates to a pass granted to the bugla, Sad-ool Barree [Sa‘d al-Barī], by the Governor of Judda and Hubusha [a province under the Ottoman Empire with Jeddah as the principal city] and discussions about whether this document needs to be countersigned by a British officer in order to be considered valid.Correspondents include: Young; Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Charles Augustus Murray, Her Majesty’s Consul General in Egypt; and the Government of Bombay.Judda is also rendered as Djeddah in the text.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft No. 345/48, Coll: 2, Vol: 59’, ‘Collection No. 15 of No. 21’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’. The title page also contains a note that relevant correspondence can be found in Enclosures N[umber]s 16 [and?] 19 accompanying despatch from the Government of Bombay, 6 August No. 70 of 1847.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 627, and terminates at f 639, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Customs administration
Passes
Governor of Jeddah and Habesh - Geographic region:
- Arabian Gulf
Persian Gulf - Rights:
- غير معروف
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098005352.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098005352.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2238/112380
IOR/F/4/2238/112380