‘Persian Gulf. Relative to the direct payment to the injured persons by the British functionaries of all monies recovered as compensation.’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Relative to the direct payment to the injured persons by the British functionaries of all monies recovered as compensation.’
- Date:
- 1852/1853
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors. The political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2550/149197. It is the fifth in a series of sixteen items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Court of Directors; the Government of Bombay; and Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns Kemball’s objection to the Court of Director’s earlier instruction that monies recovered as compensation for victims of ‘piracies’ should be paid directly to the victims and not to the rulers whose dependents they are. It includes a letter from Kemball regarding money given to Sheikh Sultan bin Suggur, the Joasmee ‘Chief’ [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī, Ruler of the Qawāsim] to disburse as compensation for plundered property, and a letter from one of the claimants, Tuker Teeruthdass Khoosaldass [Thākur Tīrthdās Khusāldās, also referred to as ‘Faroo’ in the item] confirming his receipt of the amount owed, in the form of credit.The item contains a table of contents (f 490), and the title page (f 489) contains the following references: Draft Number ‘358 - 1854’, ‘Collection No. 10 of No. 84 of 1853. Vol. 5’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’. The collection number was originally given as ‘4’ but this has been crossed out and replaced with ‘10’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 489 and terminates at f 495, 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:
- Compensation
- Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100108905284.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100108905284.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2550/149201
IOR/F/4/2550/149201