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13. 'File 6/10 Construction of sea wall, correspondence regarding'
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- Abstract: The file consists of correspondence between the Political Agency, Bahrain, the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), and the Mesopotamia Persia Corporation regarding construction work in and around the sea wall and the Corporation's property in Manama. The papers cover the Corporation's attempts to have a bridge in the sea wall built that will allow boats through and the road adjacent to the site improved, and to secure a guarantee from the government that an area of water belonging to them will not be reclaimed from the sea in the future.Folios 15 and 19 are plans of the area in question.Physical description: The file is arranged chronologically from the front to the rear of the file.
14. 'File 6/4 Stores for the Bahrain Municipality; Municipal Tax and Dues'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence relating to administrative, legal, and fiscal matters connected to the Manama Municipality. The correspondence is between the Political Agency at Bahrain, British Consulate at Damascus, Manama Municipality (also referred to as the Baladiyah), Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), Frank Holmes of Eastern and General Syndicate Limited, Director of Customs and Port Officer at Bahrain, and a number of Bahrain merchants.The file covers several matters, including:the sourcing and purchase of numerals for housing and street signs in the town;complaints by merchants about customs procedures and the imposition of surtaxes by the municipality;numerous orders of the municipality, such as licensing for dogs, lighting for boats and bicycles, and calls for offers to build a new road in Manama.Folios 12-18 are a report into water sources and quality, and suggested methods of extraction, by Frank Holmes on behalf of Eastern and General Syndicate Limited.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 49; 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 4-28; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
15. ‘16/12 Miscellaneous. Officer Commanding Troops – 3/16thPunjab Regiment. Correspondence with the –’
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- Abstract: Correspondence, financial statements and other papers relating to expenses incurred by the despatch to Bahrain between September 1926 to February 1927, of the 3 Battalion of the 16 (3/16) Punjab Regiment, in response to civil unrest in Manama during 1926. The principal correspondents are: the Political Agent in Bahrain (Major Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett); the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave); the Controller (or Deputy Assistant Controller) of Military Accounts for the Southern Command & Poona and Bombay District.The first part of the file comprises correspondence relating to proposals for the payment and preparation of accounts for the detachment of the 3/16 Punjab Regiment to Bahrain (multiple copies, ff 4-5, ff 15-16, ff 32-33), and enquiries from the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain as to whether the State of Bahrain will bear all expenses associated with the presence of the 3/16Punjab Regiment in Bahrain; a question answered in the affirmative by the Political Agent (f 9, f 13).The second part of the file comprises letters (some with financial statements) from the Controller of Military Accounts for the Southern Command & Poona and Bombay District, to the Political Agent at Bahrain, requesting payment of various costs incurred by the 3/16 Punjab Regiment’s presence in Bahrain. These requests were forwarded by the Political Agent to the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain. All amounts are given to Indian rupees, annas and pies:pay and allowances for the 3/16th Punjab Regiment, from September 1926 to February 1927 (f 36, f 41, f 70, f 94);expenditure on local purchases and other miscellaneous charges (ff 44-47);cost of rations consumed by the regiment during its stay in Bahrain, with copies of ration returns (ff 52-61);a mileage allowance payable to Lieutenant R C Robinson, Commandant of the 3/16th Punjab Regiment (f 66);pensions contributions for officers and men of the regiment (f 76);shipping costs associated with the passage of the regiment from Bombay to Bahrain in September and 1926, and its return in February 1927 (f 82, f 87).The file also includes proposals for the supply of ice for the regiment in Bahrain (ff 19-21), and a letter (in Arabic and English) from Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah to the Political Agent, dated 18 Sha‘bān 1345 (equivalent to 21 February 1927), expressing his satisfaction at the way in which the 3/16Punjab Regiment carried out their duties while in Bahrain.Physical description: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 110; 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 also present in parallel between ff 4-109; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
16. Government of Bahrain Administration Report for 1926-1937, and Annual Reports for 1937-1944
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- Abstract: This file contains Government of Bahrain Administrative Report for the Years 1926-1937and copies of the Government of Bahrain Annual Reportfor the Hijri years 1356-1363 (1938-1944). Each report appears to be compiled from departmental reports by Charles Dalyrmple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, and includes a General Review authored by him. Financial and budgetary details are given for the Bahrain Government, as well as activities in various different areas, including: Pearl Diving, Police and Security, Public Health, Judicial, Public Works, Municipalities, Land Registration, Wakf [Waqf], Education, Minors' Department, and Electric Supply. The reports also contain general information concerning state visits, for example that of ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Saud), and important events, such as the Zubara Dispute and the death of Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah. The reports include photographic images, charts, tables and graphs.Various other Government of Bahrain officials are also associated with the reports, including Mr W B Steele, State Engineer; Group Captain H P G Leigh, State Engineer; Mr C C L de Grenier, Director of Customs and Port Officer; Mr G W R Smith, Director of Customs, Port Officer and Food Controller; Dr I Davenport Jones, State Medical Officer; Dr R H B Snow, State Medical Officer; Dr M M McDowall, Lady Medical Officer; Dr I M A Doeg, Lady Medical Officer; Mr F J Wakelin, Director of Education; Mr G E Hutchings, Principal of the Technical School; Mrs Marjorie Belgrave; Khan Sahib Mohammed Khalil Memon, Superintendent, Land Registration Department; Mr Mohamed Saleh Shater, Manama Municipality Secretary; Mr Ahmed Al Omran, Muharraq Municipality Secretary; Mr Mohamed Dowaicer, Superintendent of the Minors' Department; and Mr Ibrahim Khalfan, Passport Officer.Physical description: Pagination: These reports have their original pagination sequences, which should be used for referencing. Inserts have not been paginated.Foliation: The volumes have been given one continuous foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of each folio. The sequence begins on the front cover of the first report, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover of the final report, on number 349.
17. 'Manama' Photographer: Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons
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- Abstract: Genre/Subject Matter:View in Manama, Bahrain through an archway. Figure in the foreground at right.Inscriptions:Below image, in pen: ‘Manama’Below image, in pencil: ‘500’Physical description: Dimensions:54 x 78 mmCondition:The image is in good condition.Foliation:‘500’Process:Silver gelatin print
18. Sketch map of northern Bahrain depicting Manamah and Sitrah Island
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- Abstract: Distinctive Features:Outline hand drawn map showing position of Old Portuguese Ford and British Agency building with coast in Tubli area outlined in red.Physical description: Materials:Pencil and crayon on paperDimensions:200 x 343 mm
19. Coll 29/2(3) 'Royal Naval Base Bahrain: transfer and adaptation for use as Political Residency'
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- Abstract: The file concerns the transfer of the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf from Bushire to Bahrain in 1946, and the conversion of the Royal Navy Base in Bahrain for the use of the Political Resident.The file is composed solely of internal correspondence between British officials including the India Office, Admiralty, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf, the Secretary of State for India, HM Treasury, the Public Works Department of the Government of India, the Ministry of Works, the Commonwealth Relations Office.The correspondence relates specifically to the following:new buildings required at the Naval Base, including four architectural drawings (ff 359-361, f 285)conversion of Jufair Naval buildings as site for the new Residencywireless transmitting stationlist of building and works at the Naval Base taken over by the Political Resident in August 1946 (ff 304-319)estimate of costsplan of empty land situated at Qadhibia (outskirts of Manama), Harbour of Bahrain, which has been sold by the Government of Bahrain to the Government of Great Britain (f 208)air conditioning in the new Residency buildingregulations relating to the occupation of Embassy and Legation houses, the property of, or leased by, His Majesty's Government (ff 122-125)Ministry of Works report of visit to Bahrain and plans to build a new Residency (ff 107-117)Admiralty's need to reoccupy buildings in the Naval base at Jufair.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 368; 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 4-368; these numbers are also written in pencil, but the majority are not circled, where these have previously been circled they have been crossed through.
20. Coll 30/117 'Persian Gulf. Bahrain Grievances of the Baharinah.'
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- Abstract: The papers in this file relate to the grievances of the Baharnah (the native population of Bahrain). The papers include: The petition of the Baharnah to the Ruler of Bahrain Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa requesting the adoption of a Qanun(code of laws) in the courts, proportional representation in the Majalis al Tujjarahand Baladiyyahat Manama and Muharraq, and restoration of their rights on the Board of Education, 30 December 1934-21 April 1936; the reservations of the Secretary of State for India the 2nd Marquess of Zetland about providing constitutional advice to the Gulf principalities, 20-27 September 1935; the instructions from the Government of India on reforming the courts of Bahrain, proportional representation, education, and pasturage of the Ruler’s camels, 6 November 1935-22 February 1936; the growth of popular movements in Kuwait, Debai [Dubai], and Bahrain, 18 July-16 November 1938; the agitation against the Shi’a Shar’Court, Bahraini courts, and the educational system in Bahrain, a strike on the premises of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), and a demonstration in the bazaar at Manama, 31 October-24 November 1938; a request by Shaikh Hamad for the recruitment of two Egyptian or Sudanese magistrates to compile a civil and criminal ‘Bahrain Code’ from all previously issued a’lansand to provide practical advice to current magistrates inside and outside the courts of Bahrain, 24 November 1938-5 August 1939; the report of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf Lieutenant Colonel T C W Fowle to the Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department Sir Herbert Aubrey Francis Metcalfe on future policy towards popular agitation in Bahrain, 14 April-23 May 1939; and the Ruler of Dubai Shaikh Sa’id bin Maktoum Al Maktoum’s forcible dissolution of the Majlisin Dubai, 5-15 June 1939.The correspondence in this file is primarily between the British Political Agent in Bahrain; Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire [Bushehr]; Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department; Foreign Secretary to the Government of India; Secretary of State for India; India Office; Secretary of the Government of India in the External Affairs Department; Foreign Office; HM Ambassador to Egypt; and the Ruler of Bahrain.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 101; 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 76-101; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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