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325. File 2794/1921 Pt 12 'Persian Gulf; oil; Bahrain; acquisition of land on Sitrah Island and reservation of other land elsewhere'
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- Abstract: The file contains letters, telegrams and memoranda relating to oil prospecting being undertaken in Bahrain by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (hereafter BAPCO) and the associated acquisition of land on Sitrah Island.Key topics discussed include the BAPCO plans for the development of an oil storage and export infrastructure at Bahrain, including: oil storage facilities and questions over the need for a refinery at Bahrain. Included is a blueprint map (folio 81) showing Sitrah Island and Sitrah Channel with submarine line.The file includes (ff 91-96) a copy of the 'Oil concession signed by the Shaikh of Bahrain in favour of the Eastern and General Syndicate on the 2nd December 1925 (as revised up to 12th January 1934)'.The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Political Agent in Bahrain; the Chief Local Representative in Bahrain for BAPCO, Edward A Skinner; and British Government officials from the India Office and Petroleum/Mining Department in London.The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by that year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 97; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
326. File 2794/1921 Pt 6 'Persian Gulf: Oil: Bahrain'
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- Abstract: The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the precise terms of the oil concession in Bahrain and in particular issues regarding the translation of the lease from English to Arabic. Also included are some article cuttings (ff 51-62) from petroleum industry newspapers.Included in the file is a copy (ff 226-241) of the Arabic translation of the Bahrain Mining Lease and a note from the Assistant Librarian (Arthur J Arberry), India Office, on the Arabic translation of the Bahrein Mining Lease and the English version (ff 242-244). The final lease with agency seal and supporting diagram is to be found on folios 365-392.The discussion in the file relates to the wording and legal interpretation of the Bahrain Mining lease. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office; the Petroleum Department (Frank Gregory Starling); the solicitor for the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (Hamilton R Ballantyne); the Ruler of Bahrain (Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah); the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave).The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 395; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 106-392; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. A previous foliation sequence between ff 2-105, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
327. File 2794/1921 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: oil'
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- Abstract: The part comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the development of oil concessions on the Arab littoral of the Persian Gulf.The discussion in the part relates to:The Kuwait oil concession (ff 108-111)A 'Memorandum on the British Commitments (during the war) to the Gulf Chiefs' (ff 56-61)A draft letter from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to the Sultan of Nejd (ff 73-76)An undertaking given by the Sultan of Muscat and Oman in 1902 regarding the Sur coalfields (folio 224)An agreement between Shaikh Ahmad al Jaboor al Sabah, Chief of Kuwait, and the D'Arcy exploration company (ff 113-120).The principal correspondents in the part are: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; officials of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company; the Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office; and the Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office.Physical description: 1 item (324 folios)
328. File 2794/1921 Pt 14 'Persian Gulf: oil; Bahrain; appointment of chief local representative of Bahrain Petroleum Company'
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- Abstract: The volumes contain letters, telegrams and memoranda relating to the appointment of the Chief Local Representative of the Bahrain Petroleum Company ( BAPCO). The file contains correspondence between BAPCO and the India Office concerning such matters as relevant prior experience and suitability for appointment of various candidates. Correspondence also discusses the approval of candidates following consultations with other Departments such as the Admiralty and the Foreign Office.The file includes (ff 51-55) a copy of the 'Agreement with His Majesty's Government (Political Agreement) between the British Government and the Bahrain Petroleum Company, which lists the conditions on company registration and staffing.The principal correspondents in the volumes are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Political Agent in Bahrain; officials of the India Office, London; the Chief Local Representative for BAPCO, Ed Skinner; and BAPCO's London representative, Hamilton Ballantyne.The volumes include dividers which give the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. These are placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: this file consists of two physical volumes. The foliation sequence commences at the front cover of volume one (ff 1-98) and terminates at the inside back cover of volume two (ff 99-195); these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
329. File 2908/1907 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Quarantine’
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- Abstract: The volume contains part one of the subject file 2908/1907 Persian Gulf: Quarantine. This part contains papers regarding proposals for the improvement of the Persian Gulf Quarantine Service. It therefore contains discussion between British officials over the provision of finance, personnel, and equipment to facilitate improvements. The supply of stoves (for Jask, Bundar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās], Lingah [Bandar-e-Lengeh], Mohammerah, Bushire, and Bahrain) and a Clayton disinfection apparatus by the Government of India accounts for a significant amount of correspondence. Some discussion surrounding possible threats to British control of the Quarantine service can also be found in the file.Printed copies of the minutes of the Sanitary Council for the Empire of Persia are included for the meetings: 29 June 1907 (folios 141-143), 5 August 1907 (folios 144-145), 2 September 1907 (folios 133-135), 4 November 1907 (folios 81-83), and 2 December 1907 (folios 84-86). These documents are written in French. A note from Dr Jean-Etienne Justin Schneider, President of the Sanitation Council, on proposed improvements to the Quarantine Service can be found on folio 196-198. This note is also in French.Printed copies of telegrams regarding a plague outbreak in Bahrain in 1907 can be found between folios 183-187.Towards the front of the file are a small number of papers related to a proposal to withdraw the mobile assistant medical officer – posted to Bushire under the improvement programme – from the Persian Gulf in 1909.The main correspondents are as follows: the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey), HM Minister at Tehran (Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice), the Chargé d'affaires at Tehran (Charles Murray Marling), the Under-Secretary of State for India (Arthur Godley), and officials from the Foreign Office (Louis Mallet and Sir Walter Langley). Occasional reference is also made to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Major Percy Zachariah Cox) and the Government of India.Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 255; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
330. File 2908/1907 Pt 2 ‘Bahrain: quarantine arrangements’
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- Abstract: The item consists of part two of the subject file 2908/1907 Persian Gulf: Quarantine. It contains correspondence regarding proposals for improving and financing quarantine arrangements and plague prevention measures at Bahrain.The main correspondents are as follows: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Major Percy Zachariah Cox), the Political Agent at Bahrain (Captain Francis Beville Prideaux, later Captain Charles Fraser Mackenzie), officials of the Foreign Office, and officials of the India Office. It also contains input from the Treasury, representatives of the Foreign Department of the Government of India, and Shaikh Esa Bin Ali Al Khalifa [Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah] – Ruler of Bahrain.Physical description: The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear (folio 181) to the front of the part (folio 126).
331. File 2960/1916 Pt 3 'Exchange compensation allowances to Government servants at Koweit, Muscat, Bahrain, Gwadur, Debai'
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- Abstract: This part contains: correspondence (and a list of the correspondence) between the India Office and the Government of India, regarding the payment of dollar exchange compensation allowance for Government employees at Bahrain and Koweit [Kuwait], and for postal staff at Dubai, Gwadur [Gwadar] and Bahrein [Bahrain]; and India Office minute papers and notes about the correspondence.The correspondence largely consists of letters from the Government of India forwarding statements showing the amount of dollar exchange compensation allowance paid each quarter.Physical description: 1 item (72 folios)
332. File 3540/1916 'MESOPOTAMIA 1916-17 PORTION'
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- Abstract: The volume comprises mainly printed correspondence, telegrams, summaries, printed reports, notes, receipts, statistical tables, and other papers concerning miscellaneous matters relating to Mesopotamia, including Basra, and also Bahrain.The papers notably cover:The Iraq Occupied Territories code, 1915 (folios 672-722)Notes by Gertrude Bell on the administration of justice, tribal Sayyids, claims for compensation, and the Shia in IraqBahrain and its trade with the Arabian hinterlandThe interests of the Shaikh of Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and the Shaikh of Kuwait in the Iraq Occupied Territories'Orders for the Trial of Inhabitants of the Country' (folio 182)Attitude of the Basra notables.The principal correspondents are: Percy Zachariah Cox, Chief Political Officer in Charge, Iraq Section; Gertrude Bell, Political Officer; the Officer in Charge, Cairo Section, Eastern Bureau; Director Military Intelligence, Cairo; the General Officer Commanding, Indian Expeditiory Force D; the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, Simla.The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by the year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 725; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 4-723; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. There are multiple additional mixed foliation/pagination sequences. There is one foliation anomaly, f 360a.
333. File 4673/1919 Pt 1-3 ‘Bahrein Mission’
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- Abstract: The volume contains papers relating to the visit of a Mission (deputation) from Bahrain consisting of ‘Abdullah bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, son of Shaikh Isa of Bahrein, and others, to the United Kingdom in 1919.Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 389; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
334. File 13/5 'Foreign Consular representation in Kuwait (and Persian Gulf)'
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- Abstract: The file contains papers of the Political Agency, Kuwait, relating to foreign consular representation in the Persian Gulf.Papers dated November 1933 to February 1935 include:correspondence of the Political Agent, Kuwait, with the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Political Agent, Bahrain, and copies of correspondence sent by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, relating to the visit of the United States Minister at Baghdad to Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat, and his intended visit to Riyadhcorrespondence between the Political Agent, Kuwait, and the United States Consulate General, Baghdad (James S Moose), and Dr C S G Mylrea, of the American Mission, Kuwait, concerning the annual report on the automotive vehicle census of Kuwait, to be submitted by the American Consulate GeneralPapers dated March 1948 to April 1949 consist of correspondence relating to Indian consular representation in the Persian Gulf. The file does not include papers for the period March 1935 to February 1948.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 68; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
335. File 58 Bahrain affairs
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- Abstract: This file contains correspondence to/from three British Residents at Bushire, Captain James Felix Jones, Captain Herbert Frederick Disbrowe and Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly.A number of topics are discussed in the file, most prominent among them are the following:Relations between Britain and Bahrain;A blockade of Kutiffe (Al-Qatif);Military action taken by Bahrain against the Chief of Wukra;The mis-treatment of Indian British subjects in Bahrain.On folios 2-6, the file contains copies in English and Arabic of the Perpetual Truce of Peace and Friendship (1861) signed by Sheikh Mahomed ben Khalifeh [Shaikh Muḥammed bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah] on behalf of himself and his successors and Captain James Felix Jones on behalf of the British Government.On folios 136-140, the file contains a translation of an agreement proposed by Houssein Ali Mirza, the Prince Regent of Fars in 1822, that Lieutenant William Bruce is said to have agreed to without permission of the British Government.Physical description: Foliation: The file's foliation sequence is written in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the title page, on number 1, and ends on the last folio before the back cover, on number 183. Foliation errors: f 101 is followed by f 101A; f 107 is followed by f 107A; f 111 is followed by f 111A; f 115 is followed by f 115A.
336. File 697/1920 'Koweit Order-in-Council'
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- Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the Kuwait Order in Council for each year from 1920-1928. The Order in Council refers to the legal instruments whereby His Majesty the King has jurisdiction within the territories of the Shaikh of Kuwait whether by 'Treaty, capitulation, usage, sufferance and other lawful means.'Also included in the volume are copies of the Order in Council in Muscat and Bahrein [Bahrain]:'Statutory rules and orders, 1915. No. 132 Foreign Jurisdiction, the Maskat Order in Council, 1915' (ff 259-271)'The Bahrein Order in Council, 1913' (ff 272-284).The principal correspondents in the volume are: the Political Agent, Kuwait; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 490; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.