‘File 13/18 ILLEGAL TRAVELLING PERMITS ISSUED BY THE AMIR OF JAALAN, - BENI BU ALI, TO MUSCAT SUBJECTS.’
Date:
1929/1949
Description:
Abstract: The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire; the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Passport Officer, Bahrain; and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain. The correspondence contains reports of three instances where Arab and Indian travellers used an illegal travel permit, certificate of identity or passport to travel to Bahrain and other countries in 1929, 1930 and 1949.The file also includes: an English translation of a travel permit in Arabic issued to a Muscat subject by Ali bin Abdulla [‘Alī bin ‘Abdullāh], Emir of the Beni Bu Ali [Banū Bū ‘Alī] tribe, Jaalan [Ja‘alan], Oman in 1929; a Hejaz and Nejd [Najd] Kingdom passport in Arabic issued to a British Indian subject travelling to Bahrain in 1949.Physical description: Foliation: numbered 1A-1C and 2-9 in pencil in the top right hand corner. The numbering starts at the front of the file, on the file cover (f 1A) and ends on the inside cover at the back of the file (f 8).