‘Persian Gulf. Registers for vessels belonging to Persian subjects-’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Registers for vessels belonging to Persian subjects-’
- Date:
- 1847/1847
- Description:
- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 31 January 1848. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2238/112322, alongside details of further enclosures. The item is the fifty-seventh in a series of fifty-nine items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item relates to a letter, dated 14 September 1847, from Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, Her Majesty’s Minister at the Court of Tehran, to Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf. The letter confirms that the Government of India’s Act No. 19 of 1838 does not give the same duty privileges for registered vessels belonging to British subjects residing at Bombay [Mumbai], to Persian [Iranian] subjects residing at Bombay. This is forwarded on to the Government of Bombay, which instructs copies to be sent out to other offices within the Company.The item also contains a minute by Lestock Robert Reid, Council Member of the Government of Bombay, explaining the relevant wording of Act No. 19.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft No. 345/48, Coll: 2, Vol: 57’, ‘Collection No. 13 of No. 21’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’. The title page also contains a note that relevant correspondence can be found in Collection No. 15 accompanying despatch from the Government of Bombay, 15 April and 2 December 1846, N[umber]s. 41 and 145.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 608, and terminates at f 613, 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.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Customs privileges
- Geographic region:
- Persia
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098005304.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098005304.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2238/112378
IOR/F/4/2238/112378