‘Application from Lt. E. H. Bellasis of the Engineers for some remuneration for the duties he performed as Acting Resident at Bussorah during the absence of Mr Manesty in the year 1805.’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Application from Lt. E. H. Bellasis of the Engineers for some remuneration for the duties he performed as Acting Resident at Bussorah during the absence of Mr Manesty in the year 1805.’
- Date:
- 1803/1813
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists mostly of copies of correspondence, minutes, orders, and memoranda cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the governments of Bombay and Bengal. It concerns the application from Lieutenant Edward Hutchins Bellasis, of the Corps of Engineers in the Bombay Army, for remuneration for services performed and expenses incurred in relation to the Residency at Bussora. The main subjects are:The furlough granted to Bellasis from 1803 to 1805The departure from Bussora [Basra, also referred to as Bussorah] in March 1805 of Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora, with the residency left under the temporary charge of Bellasis and subsequently John LawThe applications by Bellasis for remuneration for the duties he performed as Acting Resident at Bussora, compensation for the losses he sustained at sea following his departure from Bussora, and for additional allowances to cover the period in 1804 when he commanded the detachment that accompanied Manesty to Persia [Iran]The calculation by John Elphinstone, Accountant General, Government of Bombay, of the salary and allowances of the Resident and Assistant Resident in Bussora from 1802-06The consideration of Bellasis’s case by the governments of Bombay and Bengal and the East India Company Court of Directors, and the delay in a verdict being reached.The title page (f 223) of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political No. 11, Season 1814/15, Draft 190’; and ‘Examiner’s Office, January 1815’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at 223, and terminates at 257, 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.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Wages
Compensation - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000001714.0x00027e_ar
81055/vdc_100000001714.0x00027e_en
IOR/F/4/448/10771
IOR/F/4/448/10771