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1. 'Additions made to the Table Allowances of the Residents of Cutch & Bushire & of the Political Agents at Bussora & Mocha.'
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- Abstract: The item consists of collected correspondence and minutes from September 1824 regarding increases made to the table allowances of the Residencies at Cutch [Kutch] and Bushire and of the Political Agencies at Bussora [Basra] and Mocha. It also contains correspondence and minutes from 1826 regarding a further increase made to the table allowance of the Residency at Cutch, along with a statement of table allowances of the several residencies under the Government of Bombay.The correspondents are: Captain William Taylor, Political Agent, Bussora; William Newnham, Chief Secretary, Government of Bombay; Henry Pottinger, Resident at Cutch; and John Wedderburn, Civil Auditor, Government of Bombay. The minutes were created by Mountstuart Elphinstone, President and Governor in Council, Bombay.The title page (f 258) of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 356’, ‘Collection No. 1’, and ‘Examiner’s Office, 1829’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 258, and terminates at f 274, 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 printed pagination sequence.
2. ‘Accounts’
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- Abstract: The file comprises papers concerning the finances of the Political Office in Doha, Qatar. The papers chiefly concern the second quarter of 1950, but extend to December 1950 and up until March 1951. Most of the papers were prepared by the Political Officer at Doha, Arthur John Wilton.The first paper in the file is titled ‘Account current of His Majesty’s Political Officer at Doha, Qatar, for the quarter ended 30th June 1950’, and contains details of local currency held by the office, a list of receipts, subheads and payments, and a certificate of account, signed by Wilton.Other papers in the file include:schedule of payments (for example, clerk’s wages, car hire, candles, typewriter repairs);trial balance;statements and details of suspense account;schedules of registration for British subjects for April, May and June 1950;statements for the passport and visa office, with details of fees levied and stamps issued.At the end of the file is a handwritten balance sheet, dated March 1951 on its cover (ff 29-30).Monetary values stated in the file are given in Indian rupees, annas and pies (Rs), or in English pounds, shillings and pence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 30; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
3. 'British relations with the Wahabees'
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- Abstract: Printed report communicated by the India Office and printed for the use of the Foreign Office. The report concerns British relations with the Wahabees [Wahhabi] emirs, from 1904 to 1907, the growing influence of Ibn Sa‘ūd [Āl Sa‘ūd, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal] and the British proposal to send a Political Agent to Kuwait, to contrast the Turkish influence over Central Arabia.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at f 8, and terminates at f 12, since 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 the bottom right-hand corner of the recto of each folio. These numbers are written in pencil, but are not circled. Pagination: This section of the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
4. 'File 1/55 Personal File of Political Officer, Qatar, Doha'
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- Abstract: The file relates to the appointment and service of the first Political Officer in Qatar, Arthur John Wilton, and his successors as Political Officer up to October 1950.The papers, which consist of correspondence and telegrams, cover the following topics: note on establishment of Political Agency, Qatar, subordinate to the Political Agency, Bahrain, August 1949; telegram concerning precedence of persons to whom the Political Officer should make official calls, October 1949; travel expenses and arrangements; telegrams concerning visits by representatives of the Ministry of Works (MOW), November to December 1949; permission to come to Bahrain for Christmas, December 1949; information on movements of the Political Officer generally; promotion within His Majesty's Foreign Service; cover during absence on leave; handover of duties between officers, including accounts, and statements of consular fees and court fee stamps, July 1950; correspondence concerning the shipping of a car for the Political Officer free of customs duty; and a personal letter [1950].Physical description: Foliation: the foliation system in use commences at 1 and continues through to 51 on the back cover. The sequence is written in pencil or blue crayon, enclosed in a circle, and appears in the top right hand corner of the recto page of each folio. Foliation anomaly: ff. 1, 1A. The following pagination ranges occur: 21-22; 36-37.
5. ‘File 5/183 (D 31) Manumission of slaves at Kuwait’
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- Abstract: Correspondence in the volume is related to a number of manumission cases involving Kuwaiti subjects heard between 1907 and 1909, either in Kuwait, or in another of the Political Agencies in the Gulf. A significant proportion of the file comprises correspondence between the Political Resident (Major Percy Cox) and the Political Agent in Kuwait (Captain Stuart Knox), seeking to clarify how best to proceed with manumission requests from Kuwaiti subjects, in light of the absence of a formal slave trade treaty between the British Government and the Sheikh of Kuwait.In a letter of March 1908, Knox wrote to Cox (folios 21-22), stating that the shaikh agreed that, as “a matter of expediency, it would be better for all such [manumission] cases to be referred to himself and the Political Agent at Kuwait for disposal in consultation.” Knox further proposed that, where evidence of the ill-treatment of the slave existed, the slave should be returned to the care of Political Agent, but where no evidence of ill-treatment could be seen, the slave could appeal to the shaikh and Political Agent. Correspondence was exchanged through August and September 1908 between Cox and Woods, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, on the issue of the procedure of manumission (folios 39-42). Woods informed Cox that, for the present, “the Government of India would prefer to issue no general orders” on manumission cases, and would be content if “future cases may be dealt with satisfactorily on the merits as they arise” (folios 42).A manumission case heard at Kuwait in 1909 involved a pearl diver who claimed to be a slave, and was seeking manumission from his master (folios 49-63). In a translated statement, the master claimed that the man was not a slave, but simply owed him a diving debt. The slave and his dive master were reconciled after the intervention of Knox and shaikh Mubarak (folio 59).Physical description: Foliation: The volume has been foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover, with circled numbers in the top-right corner of each recto. An earlier pagination system, which numbers each recto with writing on and uses larger blue or red pencil numbers in the top-right corner of pages, runs through the volume.Condition: There is a small amount of insect damage on some pages, but this does not impair the legibility or understanding of the correspondence.
6. ‘Bussora Agency – Medical Officers – Ross Mr Assistant Surgeon’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; the Court of Directors of the East India Company.The item concerns allowing Assistant Surgeon John Ross to continue in his position as Civil Surgeon to the Political Agency in Turkish Arabia after attaining the rank of full surgeon.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 240, P.C. [Previous Communication] 3868, [Season 18]43’, ‘Collection No 4 of No 49’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 1044 and terminates at f 1052, 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.
7. ‘Postponement of the Abolition of the Bussora Agency.’
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- Abstract: The item consists of extracts from a Government of Bombay Political Letter, extracts from the Government of Bombay Political Consultations, and copies of correspondence and minutes regarding the situation of the Bussora [Basra] Agency. The primary subjects are:• The question of reducing or abolishing the Bussora Agency, and the decision to delay doing this as a result of the war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire• The incomplete state of the Agency accounts, and requests from the Government of Bombay for an explanation for the large sums that have been disbursed.The correspondence also includes notifications from Major Robert Taylor, Political Agent at Bussora, and Barseigh Johanness [Khōjah Parseigh Johannes], Native Agent at Bussora, that Taylor has left Bussora for Baghdad, leaving Johanness in charge of the Bussora Agency.The primary correspondents are: William Newnham, Chief Secretary, Government of Bombay; and John Wedderburn, Civil Auditor, Government of Bombay.The item also contains a contents page (f 47) listing the collected documents and giving their page numbers within the item, and an ‘Audit on the Disbursements of the Political Agent at Bussora from 31st July 1826 to 30th April 1827’ (ff 54-57).The title page (f 46) of the item contains the following references: ‘P. C. 783’, ‘Draft 477’, ‘Collection No. 5’, and ‘Examiner’s Office, 1830’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 46, and terminates at f 60, 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.
8. ‘Execution of Court’s orders directing the abolition of the Agency establishment at Mocha, suspended on the recommendation of the Supreme Government.’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the governments of Bengal and Bombay [Mumbai].The item relates to the question of maintaining a Political Agent at Mocha. The East India Company Court of Directors expresses its opinion that, due to the failure to develop trade with Abyssinia [Ethiopia] and of the costs of procuring coffee from Mocha, maintaining a Political Agent in that port is not justified. In response, the Government of Bombay presents arguments in favour of keeping a Political Agent, and discusses how coffee might be procured on more advantageous terms.The title page (f 47) of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political No.3, 1817/18, Draft 127’ and ‘Examiner’s Office, March 1817’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at 47, and terminates at 65, 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.
9. ‘Affairs of the Persian Gulf. Vol: III.’
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- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, extracts from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Political Consultations. It is the third in a series of three items on general affairs in the Persian Gulf (the others are: IOR/F/4/1435/56726 and IOR/F/4/1435/56727).The first half of the item (folios 8-76) relates to administrative matters at the Residency in the Persian Gulf (also called the Residency at Bushire [Būshehr]), in particular:Allowances for the Resident and the Residency household, including employees’ salaries and pensionsEstimates for repairs to the Residency houseThe purchase of vessels for use by the ResidentDetails of two robberies carried out on the Residency in 1832 and 1833, including losses sustained and efforts to trace the perpetratorsRequests for medical suppliesProposals by David Anderson Blane, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to establish a Native Agent at Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi].The second half of the item (folios 77-115) relates to administrative matters at the Political Agency in Turkish Arabia (also called the Political Agency at Bussora or Bussorah [Basra]), in particular:Accounts relating to the Agency, including an increase in salary for the Political Agent and the appointment of two Writers [clerks]Allowances and compensation awarded to John Ross, Assistant Surgeon at the Agency, for property lost in a shipwreckRequests for medical supplies for the Agency by RossRequests for medical supplies by Robert Taylor, the Political Agent, on behalf of a charitable group of English gentlemen based in Bagdad [Baghdad].The item also includes requests by the Native Agent at Muscat (also called the Government Agent at Muscat and the Broker at Muscat) to be appointed to a different location.The principal correspondents of the item are: Blane, Taylor, and various secretaries to the Government of Bombay. Additional correspondents include: James Farish, Civil Auditor (Bombay); James McAdam, Secretary to the Medical Board (Bombay); and the Native Agent at Muscat.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 1339, Draft 435, 1834’ and 'Examiner's Office'.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 4, and terminates at f 115, 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.
10. ‘File 14/5 A-7 OFFICER FOR AGENCY, KUWAIT’
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- Abstract: The file contains an exchange of telegrams in 1949 between the Political Agent at Kuwait and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain, expressing concerns about existing and future building development, mainly staff accommodation, on empty land in the vicinity of the Kuwait Political Agency. The Political Agent refers to the competing building schemes of two British companies, the shipping agents Gray, Mackenzie and Company Limited and the Imperial Bank of Iran. The file also contains English translations of an exchange of letters in 1944 between the Political Agent and the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad Al Jabir Al Sabah [Āl Ṣabāḥ, Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir], in which the latter agreed to reserve a plot of land for the construction of Agency staff accommodation, and to prevent development of another site already occupied by the Agency’s rain water storage tanks.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 8; 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 present in parallel between ff 2-7; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
11. 'File 17/28 Government Motor Vehicles for Agency'
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- Abstract: This file documents the purchase and supply of two official vehicles for the Bahrain Political Agency: a Humber Super Snipe Saloon and an Austin Sixteen Shooting Brake. Near the beginning of the file the Political Agent states a preference for Humber models as the Agency's official cars (specifically a Super Snipe Saloon and a Super Snipe Station Wagon), since the Government of Bahrain already possesses several of these vehicles, and therefore servicing facilities would be available. The file largely consists of the Political Agent's correspondence with a number of car distributors and agents, both in Bahrain and in Britain, regarding the purchase and shipment of the Humber and Austin vehicles. Also discussed is the Political Agent's request for two pick-up trucks for the Political Agency on the Trucial Coast (no purchases of such vehicles are documented in this file).Correspondents include the following: the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Rootes Limited (car manufacturers and distributors, London); A A Zayani and Sons (general merchants and commission agents, Bahrain); the Commonwealth Relations Office, Whitehall, London.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 128; 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 present in parallel between ff 3-38; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
12. ‘File C 14/9 A. S. ROSARIO. (PERSONAL FILE)’
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- Abstract: The file contains two letters (dated 1949) in connection with the pay and allowances of two Indian nationals employed in the Persian Gulf Cadre (service) during the transition of power from Great Britain to India (Indian Independence) in 1947. The first letter is a submission from the Political Agent at Kuwait to the Political Resident at Bahrain, commending the work done by Mr Rosario, Head of the Confidential Office and recommending that he should receive a special additional monthly allowance. The second letter is from the Persian Gulf Residency at Bahrain to the Government of India Ministry of External Affairs at New Delhi, apologizing for having made a late submission of a supplementary bill for the cost of dollar exchange and interim relief pay of Kuwait Agency clerk Mr A S Rosario (also spelt Rozario) and Bahrain Agency clerk Mr K Vishwanathan, both Indian nationals, during the period 1 May 1945 to 28 February 1947. The file also contains: a secrecy declaration (confidentiality undertaking) signed by Mr Rosario in which he promises to treat confidentially all matters relating to his employment by the British Government; and a new draft three-year contract of employment for clerical staff in the Persian Gulf Cadre under the transition from Government of India to Foreign Office terms and conditions of service.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 9; 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 present in parallel between ff 2-8; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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