1. 'File 9/37 Foreign exchange'

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Abstract: The file mainly contains applications submitted for US dollar exchange for importing goods, plus letters of credit granted by the Political Agent at Bahrain.Subjects discussed within the file are an increase in the quota for imports to the ports of Kuwait, Bahrain, Dubai, Muscat and Gwadur, and the purchase of plants for the production of ice in Bahrain.Correspondents include the Persian Gulf Residency at Bahrain, the Eastern Bank Limited, the Imperial Bank of Iran, Petroleum Development Qatar and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain.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 137; 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 1-136; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.

2. Coll 30/36 'Bahrain: claim of Yusuf Lutfali Khunji a Persian subject against Shaikh Hamad in respect of an ice factory'

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Abstract: This file contains papers relating to a legal dispute between Yusuf Lutfally Khunji and Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the ruler of Bahrain. The case concerns a joint venture between the aforementioned parties to set up and operate an ice-making plant in Bahrain at a spring owned by Mr. Khunji in 1922. Following the expiration of a five year monopoly on the manufacture and sale of ice in Bahrain, the two parties fell into a dispute on the plant.The majority of the papers consist of legal correspondence between Mr Khunji's lawyers in Manchester and either the Political Agent in Bahrain or the Financial Advisor to the Ruler of Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave. Of note, however, are letters of intervention by the Foreign Minister of Iran through the Persian Legation in London, protesting the treatment of a Persian subject in British protected territory.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 170; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.

3. File 3237/1920 ‘Persia:- Electric light, ice and condensing plants at Bushire.’

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Abstract: This volume contains papers relating to the electrical and mechanical plants (electric light, water condensing, and ice plants) at Bushire [Bushehr], which were installed during the First World War by the military authorities of the Bushire Field Force.The papers mainly consist of correspondence, in the form of letters and telegrams (including draft copies of letters and telegrams), India Office Political and Secret Department minute papers, India Office internal notes, and some enclosed statements of expenditure and revenue.The papers discuss matters including:The proposals for the electrical and mechanical plants to be taken over by the Government of India from HMG for the benefit of staff of the Military and Political Departments of the Government of India and the Indo-European Telegraph DepartmentThe division of the initial and recurrent expenditure on the plants between the Military, Political and Indo-European Telegraph Departments, and between the Government of India and HMGStatements of expenses connected with the working of the plants for the year 1923-24, the first twelve months of their operation after being taken over, requested by the Foreign OfficeProposals for the future of the electrical and mechanical plantsThe sale of the ice plant at BushireThe adjustment of charges on account of the maintenance of the electrical and mechanical plants at Bushire during the period 1 April 1926 to 31 March 1930, including: the question of the proportion in which the expenditure on running the plants should be divided between the Political and Indo-European Telegraph Departments, following the Military Department ceasing to participate in the maintenance and working of the plants after the withdrawal of the military detachments from Bushire on 23 March 1926; and the Government of India’s request that HMG (the Foreign Office) accept a moiety of the cost of maintaining the electrical and mechanical plantsThe proposal to install masonry water tanks in place of the water condenser plant at BushireThe Foreign Office proposal that the Indo-European Telegraph Department should not expect to receive a full share of the proceeds of the sale of the existing plant as well as to be free of liability during the period since their withdrawal (since 1 April 1930).The correspondence is mostly between the following: India Office officials; the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department; the Foreign Office; and the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf.The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.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 387; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.