‘Persian Gulf. Relative to the refund of duty exacted upon the Cargo of Bugla from Bombay – Vol: 50’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Relative to the refund of duty exacted upon the Cargo of Bugla from Bombay – Vol: 50’
- Date:
- 1848/1848
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2302/118727. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Khojah Hiskael [Khawājah Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf], British Agent at Muscat. It is the fiftieth in a series of fifty-one items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns a complaint that the customs master at Muscat exacted duty on a bugla [baghlah] bound from Bombay [Mumbai] to Aden laden with cargo belonging to British subjects. The bugla put in at Muscat because of the monsoon, and according to a treaty with the Imam of Muscat, dated 13 April 1846, duty ought not to be exacted in such situations.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No 14 of No 4’, ‘Coll[ection]: 17’ and ‘Draft no 465 of 49’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 720, and terminates at f 724, 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 duty
- Geographic region:
- Muscat
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098764771.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098764771.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2302/118776
IOR/F/4/2302/118776