‘Persian Gulf. Present to the Mohussil engaged in carrying the orders of the Prince of Fars, forbidding the exaction of transit duties on British goods.’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Present to the Mohussil engaged in carrying the orders of the Prince of Fars, forbidding the exaction of transit duties on British goods.’
- Date:
- 1850/1850
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2416/130506. It is the eighteenth in a series of twenty-eight items on the Persian Gulf. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay and Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns complaints about transit duties being wrongly levied between Bushire [Bushehr] and Shiraz on goods belonging to British merchants. The Prince-Governor of Fars has issued a rukum [raqam] addressing this and, at the request of Hennell, a mohussil [muhaṣṣil, a tax collector or commissioner] was employed to convey the rukum to the different Custom Houses. Hennell now requests sanction from the Government of Bombay for a sum of money to be disbursed as a present to the mohussil.The item contains a table of contents (f 614), and the title page (f 613) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 18’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 613 and terminates at f 616, 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:
- Gifts
Customs duty - Geographic region:
- Bushire
Shiraz - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100108387095.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100108387095.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2416/130523
IOR/F/4/2416/130523