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13. ‘Office Orders. Vol.1 (Closed)’
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- Abstract: The volume comprises orders made by the Political Agent at Bahrain, pertaining to the administration of the Agency, and in some cases to the administration of the Victoria Memorial Hospital. Orders are numbered, dated, and signed by the Political Agent.The volume includes:orders registering the appointment, discharge, dismissal, resignation, and leave of various individuals employed in the ‘menial establishment’ of the Agency, including sweepers, peons, doorkeepers, khalasis (dock workers) and tindals, and of other employees, including clerks, munshis, accountants, passport writers, and those associated with the Agency’s motor launch;orders relating to the salaries of Agency staff, and terms of sick leave;orders relating to fines charged against Agency staff for unauthorised absence, neglect of duty, and disobedience;orders relating to the operation of the Agency, including changes to Agency opening hours, definition of the duties and interactions of staff (including interpreters, Vernacular Office clerks, head clerk, medical officers), security arrangements covering the Agency buildings and other Agency property, including case files, financial arrangements, judicial procedure;two orders, both dated 1936, detailing how correspondence between the Residency Agent at Sharjah and the Political Agency in Bahrain should be handled (f 121, f 125);two orders, dated 1936 and 1937, outlining the distribution of work for individuals employed in the Agency’s English Office (f 122, f 130);Gaps in the dates of the orders suggest that the order book was, at certain times, used intermittently. For example, a note written by the new Political Agent Major Arthur Prescott Trevor in December 1912 states that the previous Political Agent (Captain David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer) did not use the order book (f 43). The order book was also used only sporadically during the period 1917-1921.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 139; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the volume also contains a handwritten pagination sequence.
14. ‘Proceedings connected with the concessions made by the Imaum of Muscat for the suppression of the Slave Trade with Europeans vol 2’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. It is the second in a series of three items on Muscat and the slave trade (the others are IOR/F/4/913/25777 and IOR/F/4/914/25779). The principal correspondents are the governments of Bombay and Bengal; Robert Farquhar, Governor of Mauritius; Fairfax Moresby, Commander of HMS Menai; the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat, [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd].The item concerns:Moresby’s capture of the Industry, a ship engaged in the slave tradeAgreements with the Imaum of Muscat about the slave trade and port duesFrench attempts to establish a new base at MadagascarThe state of the slave trade at ZanzibarNegotiation of the Moresby Treaty with the Imaum of Muscat, including a map of the Moresby Line (f 214)Explanations of the Moresby Treaty and the differences between the English and Arabic versionsCaptain William Fitzwilliam Owen’s survey expedition in HMS Levenand his observations on the slave tradeLiberation of three Christian women from Bahrein, who had been kidnapped from Mangalore.Folios 151-257 of the item are duplicates of folios 86-187 of IOR/F/4/746/20306, with some minor insertions, omissions, and alteration of sequence. Folios 263-271 of the item are duplicates of folios 46-53 of IOR/F/4/785/21163.The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political No. 943, Draft 8, P.C. 423, [Season] 1827/28’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 148, and terminates at f 287, 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 volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
15. ‘Proceedings connected with an unauthorized negociation entered into with the Prince Royal of Shiraz by Mr Bruce vol 1’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. It is the first in a series of three items about a negotiation by William Bruce (the others are IOR/F/4/894/23289 and IOR/F/4/895/23290). The correspondents are the Government of Bombay; William Bruce, Political Agent in the Persian Gulf; Hoossain Ali Mirza [Ḥusayn ‘Alī Mirzā Farmānfarmā, Prince-Governor of Fārs]; Lieutenant John Macleod; Captain French of the sloop Sophie.The item concerns:William Bruce’s unauthorised visit to Shiraz at the behest of Hoossain Ali MirzaThe treaty that Bruce agreed with Mirza, which included acknowledging Persian sovereignty over Kishm [Qeshm] and Bahrein [Bahrain], providing cruisers to the Persians, and obliging the Uttobees [‘Utūb] to stop carrying the flag of the friendly ArabsThe Government of Bombay’s disapproval of Bruce’s actions and the proposed agreementThe Government of Bombay’s actions to mitigate the damage done by Bruce, including replacing Bruce as Political Agent in the Persian Gulf with John MacleodThe orders given to the cruisers to counteract piracyThe furniture in the Bushire [Būshehr] Residency.The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Political No. 2, Draft 293, P.C. 362, Season 26/7, Examiner’s Office 1824’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 128, and terminates at f 226, 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 file also contains an original pagination sequence.
16. 'Bahrein'
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- Abstract: Genre/Subject Matter:General view of the sea front in Bahrain, possibly at Manama. The horizon line is punctuated by various built structures before which a variety of dhows and other craft are moored, at anchor or pulled up along the shoreline.A large group of figures can be seen standing alongside a white-washed wall right of the centre of the image.A gravelly area to the left in the foreground indicates that the photograph was taken from land, not from on board ship.Inscriptions:Upper right, in pencil alongside image: 'b', '38'Below image, in pen: 'Bahrein'Physical description: Dimensions:106 x 206 mmFormat:Albumen print on paperCondition:The print is in good condition with staining and light creasing in the sky area in the upper left corner and minor surface dirt throughout.Foliation:‘b’ (crossed out); ‘38’Process:Albumen print
17. ‘Egyptian Mission. Visit of Beghet Aga Effendi on a Mission from the Vice Roy -Further proceedings reported-’
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- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes, and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 30 August 1853, and found at IOR/F/4/2536/147461. It is the third in a series of seven items about the 'slave trade' [trade in enslaved people].The item concerns a recent visit to Bombay [Mumbai], Muscat and Bahrein [Bahrain] by Bihjut Effendi [Bahjat Āghā Effendī], an agent of Abbas Pasha [‘Abbās Ḥilmī Pāshā I], Viceroy of Egypt. In particular, the item relates to:Arrangements made for the transport of Bihjut Effendi from Aden to BombayAssistance provided to Bihjut Effendi by the Government of Bombay, including the chartering of a ship, the Bombay, from the Bombay Steam Navigation Company, and a loan of 25,000 dollarsArrangements for the payments to the Bombay Steam Navigation Company and for the repayment of the loan by Bihjut EffendiAssistance provided to Murad Bey [Murād Beg] during his visit to Bombay to purchase horsesReports by Khoja Hiskel bin Yusoof [Khawājah Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf], Acting Native Agent at Muscat, and by Hajee Jassem [Ḥājjī Jāsim], Native Agent at Bahrein, on Bihjut Effendi's activities during his visits to those places, including the purchase of horsesReports that the women described in passenger lists as being part of Bihjut Effendi's entourage were actually enslaved women offered to Sheikh Mahomed ben Khuleefa [Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah], Sheikh of Bahrein, as 'gifts'Concern expressed by Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, that this activity may be seen to have been condoned by the British and the potential political implications of this given their public stance against the 'slave trade'Further concern expressed by Kemball that Sheikh Mahomed ben Khuleefa is attempting to approach Abbas Pasha for assistance against Ben Saood [Amīr Fayṣal bin Turkī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd, also rendered in text as Ameer Fysul] and the implications of Turkish [Ottoman] intervention in Bahrein affairsGeneral updates from Khoja Hiskel bin Yusoof about activity at Muscat.The item also includes the Government of Bombay's instructions to forward copies of correspondence on the above subjects to Charles Augustus Murray, HM Consul-General in Egypt, and to the Government of India.Principal correspondents include: Murray; Kemball; Abbas Pasha; Bihjut Effendi; Khoja Hiskel bin Yusoof; Hajee Jassem; Luis Caetano de Menezes, Acting Manager of the Bombay Steam Navigation Company; and the Government of Bombay.There are multiple spellings for multiple individuals in the item, particularly for Bihjut Effendi, whose name is often rendered including the name Aga [Āghā].The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', Draft Number '161 1854', 'Collection', 'Vol: 3', and 'Examiner's Office'. Originally, the Collection was described as 'No. 1 of No. 85 of 1853' but this has been crossed out.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 778, and terminates at f 828, 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.
18. ‘Supposed designs of the Porte in the Persian Gulf’
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- Abstract: Enclosures no. 2-15 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Bombay [Mumbai] Castle, dated 15 March 1848. The enclosures are dated 14 December 1847-7 March 1848. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in the Persian Gulf and the possible intentions of the Sublime Porte [Government of the Ottoman Empire] to extend its influence in the Gulf. Many of the topics discussed in the correspondence relate to Bahrein [Bahrain], believed to be the Porte’s primary target in the Gulf, including:Possible closer relations between Britain and Shaik Mahomed bin Khuleefa [Shaikh Muhammed bin Khalifah Al Khalifah], Chief of BahreinPossible French support for Shaik Abdoollah bin Amed [Shaikh Abdullah bin Ahmad Al Khalifah], exiled former Chief of BahreinThe aftermath of the death of Shaik Esai bin Tareef [Shaikh ‘Isa bin Tarif al-‘Utbi], Chief of Al-Bida [Doha], in battle against Bahrein in November 1847A Bahraini ship running aground off the coast of Amulgavine [Umm al-Qaywayn].Other topics discussed include:The increasingly close diplomatic relations between France and Persia [Iran]A reconciliation between Sheikh Sultan bin Suggur [Shaikh Sultan bin Saqr al-Qasimi, Ruler of Sharjah and Ra's al-Khaymah] and his sons Ibraheem [Ibrahim] and AbdullahPeace negotiations between Debaie [Dubai] and Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi].The correspondents are: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Government of India; and the Native Agent, Sharjah.Physical description: 1 item (27 folios)
19. ‘GENERAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1869-70’
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- Abstract: Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1869-70.The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:‘JUDICIAL’ (ff 6-51), consisting of: Legislative; Civil Justice – Regulation Districts; Agent for Sirdars; Court of Small Causes, Bombay; Mofussil Courts of Small Causes; Criminal Justice – Regulation Districts; Police – Town and Island of Bombay; Regulation Districts; Jails; House of Correction, Bombay; Sind [Sindh]; Aden‘REVENUE’ (ff 52-60), consisting of: Land Revenue; Alienated Revenue; Customs, Salt and Opium‘FINANCIAL’ (ff 61-68), consisting of: Finance and Mint; Paper Currency‘POLITICAL’ (ff 69-89), consisting of: Kattywar [Kathiawar]; Kutch [Kachchh]; Baroda [Vadodara]; Rewa Kanta [Rewa Kantha]; Mahee Kanta [Mahi Kantha]; Pahlunpoor [Palanpur]; Khandeish [Khandesh]; Kolhapoor [Kolhapur]; Southern Mahratta [Maratha] Country; Akulkote [Akkalkot?]; Sawunt Warree [Savantvadi or Sawantwadi]; Junjeera [Janjira?]; ‘FOREIGN RELATIONS’ - Sind [Sindh]; Aden; Muscat; Persian Gulf; Bahrein [Bahrain]‘PUBLIC WORKS’ (ff 90-123), consisting of: Military – Fortifications, Cantonments; Accommodation for Troops; Ordnance; Commissariat; Staff; Naval; Civil Buildings – Revenue; Post Office; Telegraph; General; Ecclesiastical; Educational; Judicial; Agricultural; Communications – Roads, Bridges; River Improvements; Accommodation for Travellers; Miscellaneous Public Improvements – Municipal, Harbour Improvements, Lighthouses; Statement of Imperial Expenditure incurred in Public Works‘PUBLIC WORKS - RAILWAY’ (ff 124-134), consisting of: Great Indian Peninsula Railway; Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway; Sind Railway; Indus Steam Flotilla‘MILITARY’ (ff 135-138)‘ECCLESIASTICAL’ (f 139)‘INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH’ (ff 140-154), consisting of: Electrician’s Report; Traffic Manager’s Report. Appendices to this section are included on folios 148v-154‘PUBLIC INSTRUCTION’ (ff 155-170)‘MEDICAL’(ff 171-172)‘VACCINATION’ (f 173)‘SURVEYS’ (ff 174-176), consisting of: Revenue Survey; Topographical Survey‘REGISTRATION’ (ff 177-179), including: Joint Stock Companies‘FORESTS’ (ff 180-186)‘COTTON’ (ff 187-194). Appendices to this section are included on folios 192-94‘MILLS’ (ff 195-96)‘MUNICIPAL’ (ff 197-256), consisting of: Bombay; Aden; Northern Division; Southern Division; Sind‘ARCHAEOLOGY’ (f 257)‘MISCELLANEOUS’ (ff 258-259), consisting of: Khandeish Model Farm; Emigration; Agricultural Improvements; Local Funds; Hill Station of Toongar; Pensioners’ Colony; Ahmedabad Horse Show.A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 4-5. In a small number of instances there are discrepancies in the spelling, phrasing or inclusion of sub-headings between the table of contents and the body of the report. In these cases the sub-heading as it appears in the body of the report is included above.Physical description: 1 item (257 folios)
20. ‘GENERAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1871-72’
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- Abstract: Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1871-72.The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:‘PART I. – INTRODUCTORY SUMMARY’ (ff 8-17)‘PART II. – PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, POLITICAL, AND FISCAL.’ (ff 18-97), consisting of: SECTION I. – Physical Geography: 1. Area and Character of Surface 2. Climate; II. – Political Relations with Native States: 1. Native States 2. Foreign Relations; III. – Civil Divisions of British Territory; IV. – Population: 1. Census 2. Emigration; V. – Fiscal: 1. Land Revenue 2. Local Funds 3. Customs, Opium, and Salt 4. Alienated Revenue 5. Miscellaneous Revenue 6. Survey and Settlement‘PART III. – PROTECTION.’ (ff 98-151), consisting of: SECTION I. – Legislative; II. – Judicial: 1. Criminal Justice 2. Civil Justice; III. – Registration; IV. – Prisons; V. – (a). Police (b). Vagrants; VI. – Municipal Administration; VII. – (a). Military (b). Cantonments; VIII. – Marine‘PART IV. – PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.’ (ff 152-228), consisting of: SECTION I. – Finance: 1. Revenue and Expenditure – Budget Estimates 2. Mint 3. Paper Currency; II. – (a). Public Works (b). Irrigation; III. – Railway; IV. – Forests; V. – Agriculture and Stock: 1. General Summary of Agricultural Statistics 2. Cotton 3. Model Farms and Experimental Botany 4. (a). Agricultural Improvements (b). Horse and Cattle breeding 5. Fisheries; VI. – Prices of Produce and Labour; VII. – Mines and Quarries; VIII. – Manufactures; IX. – Trade: 1. Exports and Imports 2. Railway Traffic 3. Fairs 4. Joint Stock Companies 5. Chamber of Commerce‘PART V. – INSTRUCTION.’ (ff 229-243), consisting of: SECTION I. – Ecclesiastical; II. – Public Instruction; III. – Scientific and Literary: 1. Archaeology 2. Scientific Associations or Institutions 3. Museums 4. The Press‘PART VI. – VITAL STATISTICS.’ (ff 244-263), consisting of: SECTION I. – Public Health and Sanitation: 1. General Health 2. Births, Deaths, and Marriages; II. – Hospitals and Dispensaries; III. – Vaccination‘PART VII. – THE POST.’ (ff 264-266).A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 6-7. There is a discrepancy between how the heading of Part VII appears in the table of contents and the body of the report; the heading as it appears in the body of the report is included above.Folios 269-336 consist of appendices. There is an index to the appendices on folios 267-268, listing the appendices under the following headings and sub-headings:‘I – STATISTICS OF PHYSICAL, POLITICAL, AND FISCAL GEOGRAPHY.’ (ff 269v-279r), consisting of: I. Climate; II. Civil Divisions of British Territory‘II. – STATISTICS OF PROTECTION.’ (ff 279v-314r), consisting of: A. Civil Justice – Regulation Districts; B. – Criminal Justice – Regulation Districts, Town and Island of Bombay, Sind [Sindh], Aden; C. – Police – Regulation Districts, Sind‘III. – STATISTICS OF PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.’ (ff 314v-322r), consisting of: I. Public Works; II. – Stamps; III – Trade‘IV – STATISTICS OF INSTRUCTION.’ (ff 322v-323r)‘V. – STATISTICS OF HEALTH AND MORTALITY.’ (ff 323v-326r), consisting of: Public Health‘VI. – MISCELLANEOUS.’ (ff 326v-336), consisting of: I. – Municipal Accounts; II. Local Fund Accounts; III. – Joint Stock Companies; IV. – Cotton; V. – Spinning and Weaving Mills.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 339; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
21. 'PERSIAN GULF ARABIA. BAHREIN HARBOUR'
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- Abstract: A map indicating the locations of four buoys and one stone beacon in Bahrein Harbour in the Persian Gulf. The buoys and beacon are marked in manuscript with corresponding arrows drawn in the right margin.The base map on which the buoys are indicated is Admiralty chart 20, 'Published at the Admiralty 15th. Augt. 1862', 'Small corrections... II-1906.'.A hand stamp on the verso reads, 'British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. Received 19 Aug. 1908'.Physical description: Materials: Printed on paper with manuscript additions in coloured inkDimensions: 670 x 485mm, on sheet 700 x 510mm
22. 'Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part I)'
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- Abstract: A memorandum, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary of the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, 1 September 1879.The document is a summary of correspondence, government reports, and published literature relating to the Turkish expedition into El Hassa [Al Hasa] in 1871, and was compiled in light of a proposed comprehensive arrangement with the Porte about the positions of the two powers along the Gulf coast, and policing responsibilities at sea. The correspondence is from the period 1870-1874 and is principally between various British Government departments and offices connected to the region, and the Turkish Government.The Turkish expedition called into question the sovereignty and jurisdiction of much of the Arabian Peninsula, as well as the coastline and islands of the Gulf. The correspondence contains discussions of these matters and reflects British fears of a loss of their monopoly over the control and security of the Gulf, and a disruption of the treaty relations they maintained with rulers in Bahrein [Bahrain], Guttur [Qatar], the Trucial Coast, Muscat, and Aden.The author quotes extensively from the correspondence and other sources, notes on which are to be found in the margin throughout.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation for this description commences at folio 131 and terminates at folio 144, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The main foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.Condition: folio 131 is torn along one edge, with some loss of text.
23. 'Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part III)'
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- Abstract: A printed memorandum written and compiled by Adolphus Warburton Moore for the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, and dated 2 December 1881.The document is a continuation of 'Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part II)' (IOR/L/PS/18/B19/2) and broadly addresses the same issues, namely, how to respond toTurkish claims to sovereignty along the southern coast of the Gulf that could potentially impinge on Britain's commitments with local rulers (in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast) and their security responsibilities at sea (the suppression of piracy).The document summarises correspondence from the previous two years (1879-1881) that had dealt with the matter, beginning with an outline of the opinions of officials from the main departments and institutions involved: the Foreign Office, the Government of India, and the India Office (whose opinion Warburton represents). Other correspondents include officials from the Residencies and Agencies in both the Persian Gulf and Turkish Arabia, as well as the Ambassador at Constantinople.The documents cover several topics, including:The threat to Bahrain from the Beni Hajir tribe and Ottoman ambitions to extend their sovereignty to the island, including the Turkish plan to build a coal depot on the island as a pretext to further political involvement;Questions of how to police the waters under Turkish authority;How Britain should deal with Shaikh Jasim [Jāsim bin Muḥammad Āl Thāni] of El Bidaa [Doha];Turkish claims to parts of the coast of Guttur [Qatar].The document concludes with the perceived outcomes of the discussions, including closer ties with the ruler of Bahrain, who, in December 1880, agreed not to open relations with any foreign power other than Britain.The author quotes extensively from the correspondence and other sources, notes on which are to be found in the margin throughout.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation for this description commences at folio 4 and terminates at folio 18, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between folios 4-197; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the bottom right corner of each folio.Pagination: the document also has an original printed pagination sequence.
24. 'Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part II)'
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- Abstract: A memorandum, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary of the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, 1 September 1879.The document is a continuation of 'Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part I)' (IOR/L/PS/18/B19/1) and broadly addresses the same issues, namely, what to do about Turkish claims to sovereignty along the southern coast of the Gulf that could potentially impinge on Britain's treaty commitments with local rulers and their security responsibilities at sea (the suppression of piracy), and whether to come to some kind of comprehensive arrangement with the Ottoman Government to settle the matter. To support this, the document gives a history of recent affairs in the region, making extensive use of correspondence and memoranda mostly written between 1874 and 1879. The principal correspondents are from the Government of India, the Foreign Office, the India Office, and various political and diplomatic offices in the Persian Gulf, Turkish Arabia, and Constantinople. The matters covered by the document concern events at Bahrein [Bahrain], Guttur [Qatar] - including Zobarah [Al Zubarah], Odeid [al-‘Udaid], and El Bidaa [Doha] - Lahsa [al-Hasa], and the Trucial states.The memorandum concludes by outlining the position of the Foreign Office, the Government of India, and the India Office (represented by the author) on the following four matters:1. The status of Odeid;2. The need to better define areas of responsibility and jurisdiction with the Porte, and whether to hold them responsible for order along the coast under their authority;3. A revision of Britain's treaties with Bahrain, the Trucial chiefs, and Muscat;4. The arrangement of Persian Gulf business between the Bushire Residency and the Baghdad Political Agency.The author quotes extensively from the correspondence and other sources, notes on which are to be found in the margin throughout.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at folio 148 and terminates at folio 168, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The main foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.