'File 4/2 III Objection Statement. From 1st April 1935.'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'File 4/2 III Objection Statement. From 1st April 1935.'
- Date:
- 1935/1944
- Description:
- Abstract: The file concerns objection statements (accounting queries) made by the Office of the Accountant General, Central Revenues, New Delhi against items of expenditure made by the Political Agency, Bahrain (also referred to as Bahrein).The correspondence is mainly between the Office of the Accountant General, Central Revenues, New Delhi and the Political Agent, Bahrain. There is also correspondence from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Assistant Political Agent, Bahrain; Captain Roy Douglas Metcalfe, Publicity Officer, Persian Gulf, Bahrain; the Political Officer, Trucial Coast, Sharjah; and other British officials in the region.The objection statements raise issues concerning items of expenditure on travel allowances; pay of Agency staff; rent; postage and telegraph charges; payments to the General Provident Fund; and office expenses, and are accompanied by certificates issued by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent, Bahrain sanctioning the items of expenditure in question, and related correspondence.The date range gives the overall dates of the main run of correspondence; the last dated addition to the file is an entry in the notes on f 298 dated 27 February 1944.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 299; 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 ff 2-257 and between ff 261-271; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Expenditure
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000241.0x0002f5_ar
81055/vdc_100000000241.0x0002f5_en
IOR/R/15/2/1118
IOR/R/15/2/1118