‘Persian Gulf. Relative to the recovery of debts said to be due to British subjects in India.’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Relative to the recovery of debts said to be due to British subjects in India.’
- Date:
- 1850/1850
- 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/4/2416/130506. It is the twenty-third 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 applications received by Hennell from merchants from Bombay seeking his assistance in recovering debts due to them from individuals in Bushire [Bushehr]. These merchants had been selling goods consigned to them by Caja Daood Sassoon [Khvājah Dāʾūd Sāsūn]. Hennell has declined to interfere, as the goods did not pass the Bushire Customs House as British merchandise.The item contains a table of contents (f 659), and the title page (f 658) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 23’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 658 and terminates at f 661, 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:
- Debt recovery
- Geographic region:
- Bushire
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100108387152.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100108387152.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2416/130528
IOR/F/4/2416/130528