Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 74 of 1850, dated 3 December 1850. The enclosures are numbered 3-6 and are dated 5 September to 30 November 1850.The papers relate to affairs in the dominions of the Imam of Muscat, including. Among the subjects of discussion is the destruction by the marines of HMS
Castorof barracoons at ‘Kerringe in the Mozambie River’ [Zambezi River] and the capture of the ‘Banians’ engaged in the trafficking of enslaved people in the dominions of the Imam of Muscat. This activity took place on the mainland of East Africa and involved the British forces exchanging the Sultan of Tonge [Tsonga] for the ‘Banian’ prisoners.The main correspondents are Her Majesty’s Consul and Honourable Company’s Agent in the Dominions of the Imam of Muscat (also referred to as HM Consul, Zanzibar), and the Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay. The item also features a minute from the Governor of Bombay.Physical description: 1 item (20 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 68 of 1850, dated 2 December 1850. The enclosures are numbered 3-4 and are dated 10 September to 30 November 1850.The papers relate to affairs in the vicinity of Muscat, principally the estrangement between the Imam of Muscat and his eldest son, the causes of which are not known to British officials.The correspondents are the Chief Secretary to the Government in Bombay and HM Consul and Honourable Company’s Agent in the Dominions of the Imam of Muscat, Captain Atkins Hamerton.Physical description: 1 item (5 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 58 of 1850, dated 30 October 1850. The enclosures are numbered 3-15 and are dated 6 April-28 October 1850.The papers relate to affairs in the vicinity of Muscat including:The murder of Syed Syf bin Humood of Sohar [Sayyid Sayf bin Ḥammūd al-Bū Sa‘īdī of Suhar] by orders of his father Syed Humood bin Azan [Sayyid Ḥammūd bin ‘Azzān al-Bū Sa‘īdī], Chief of SoharReports of the seizure at Shinas of Syed Humood bin Azan of Sohar by Syed Thooweynee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Governor of Muscat, in contravention of the 1839 Treaty of Commerce between the Sultan of Muscat and Zanzibar [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd], and Great BritainReports of the departure of Sheikh Sultan bin Suggur, the Joasmee Chief [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī], with a large force to aid the Chief of Sohar, including the outcome of the expeditionTranslated copies of correspondence between the Arab parties involved and the Resident in the Persian Gulf.Correspondents include the following: Moollah Houssein [Mullā Ḥusayn], the Native Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]; the Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Commanding Officer of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf; the Governor of Muscat; the Chief of Sohar; and Sheikh Sultan bin Suggur.Physical description: 1 item (45 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 18 of 1840, dated 30 April 1840. The enclosure is dated 29 April 1840.The papers relate to the expenses incurred on account of Captain Robert Cogan’s mission accompanying HE Syed Ali bin Nasser [‘Alī bin Nāṣir al-Ḥārithī], Envoy Extraordinary from HH the Imaum [Imām] of Muscat to HM Government. The papers include a detailed statement of the expenses of Captain Cogan, ‘HM Commissioner and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of HH the Imaum of Muscat’. Expenses included passage by the ship
Atalantafrom Suez to Bombay and from there by HC Brig
Tapteeto Zanzibar.The correspondents are the Accountant General and the Chief Secretary to the Government of India.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 64 of 1853, dated 28 October 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-4 and are dated 3 June to 27 October 1853.The enclosures relate to the right of the Imam of Muskat [Muscat, also written as Mascat] to certain possessions on the east coast of Africa including correspondence with the French Consul at Zanzibar, Dr J Ludwig Krapf.Correspondents include Major Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul in the Dominions of the Imam of Mascat.Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
Abstract: The file concerns the appointment, and terms and conditions of Quarantine Medical Officers at Bahrain, Koweit [Kuwait] and Muscat.The papers include a 'Report of Dr Pridie, Medical Adviser to the British Middle East Office on Medical, Sanitary and Quarantine arrangements in the Gulf States' (folios 42-45); a report by Lieutenant-Colonel William Joseph Moody (Medical Adviser to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf) concerning reliefs for the Quarantine Medical Officers at Bahrain and Kuwait (folios 24-25); and a report on quarantine and medical arrangements at Sitra, which advocated the need for a full-time Quarantine Medical Officer there (folios 20-22).The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file 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 47; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains papers relating to a tour by Sir Basil Newton, HM Ambassador to Iraq, to the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, visiting Sharja [Sharjah], Muscat, Bahrain, Basra, Fao [Al-Faw], and Abadan.The file mostly consists of the following:Correspondence between the India Office (Roland Tennyson Peel) and the External Affairs Department of the Government of India.Correspondence between the India Office and the Foreign Office.Copy correspondence between Newton and the Foreign Office, including a copy of a despatch from Newton to Viscount Halifax (Edward Frederick Lindley Wood), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, containing Newton’s impressions and observations formed on the tour, and enclosing an account of his tour.The file includes a divider, which gives lists of correspondence references contained in the file 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 49; 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.
Abstract: The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, 'regarding the desire of the Egyptian Government that the text of their latest regulations governing the acceptance by Egyptian subjects of foreign decorations may be communicated to the government of Muscat and Oman, and that they may be informed of the dates on which that government take cognisance of the regulations.'The file includes three documents in French including 'Rescrit Royal No. 67 de 1931,' signed 'Fouad' (ff 14).The correspondence concludes with dispatches from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf confirming that the Political Agent and HM Consul, Muscat, had informed him that the 'Muscat State' took cognisance of the regulations on 6 April 1932.Correspondents include: the King of Egypt (Fuad I, spelled as Fouad in the file); HM's High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, (Percy Loraine); the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, Simla; Under-Secretary of State for India, India Office, London (Sir Samuel Hoare); Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, London (Sir John Simon).The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file 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 17; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Correspondence, minute papers, drafts, and memoranda related to the drafting and issue of The Muscat Order in Council, 1939. The correspondence is principally between officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, Government of India (External Affairs), and Political Residency in the Persian Gulf. The order was necessary to conform to the provisions of a new Treaty of Friendship between Britain and Muscat.Papers of note include:A copy of the new Treaty of Friendship, 1939 (folios 153-158)The Maskat [Muscat] Order in Council, 1915 (folios 114-126)The Maskat (Amendment) Order in Council, 1922 (folios 127-128)The Muscat Order in Council, 1939 (folios 29-45)Memorandum entitled 'Interest of the French Government in relations between His Majesty's Government and Muscat', by Lacy Baggallay, Eastern Department, Foreign Office, 19 December 1939 (folios 14-15).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 167; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains papers regarding visa fees to be charged to natives of Oman and Muscat, and of Koweit [Kuwait], for proceeding to British territory.The papers mostly consist of correspondence between the following: the India Office; the Foreign Office; HM Minister, Tehran (Robert Henry Clive); HM Consul General, Meshed (Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett); and the Government of India Foreign and Political Department.The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file 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 12; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence relating to travel documents for persons travelling to, and for natives of, particular British Protectorates and Arab states.It includes correspondence concerning the following: the endorsement affixed by the Saudi Arabian authorities to the passports of persons leaving Saudi Arabia for Bahrein [Bahrain]; the issue of visas for Muscat by British authorities on behalf of the Muscat Government; the proposed issue of identity certificates for Iraqi nationals travelling to Koweit and Bahrain; the proposal that the Sheikh of Koweit [Kuwait] should, in future, be allowed to issue his own passports; the grant of Iraqi visas to Kowaitis; and visas for Arab Shaikhdoms in the Persian Gulf.The main correspondents include: HM Minister, Jeddah, and the British Legation, Jeddah; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Foreign Office; the India Office; the Secretary to the Government of India, External Affairs Department; HM Consul, Muscat; and the Commonwealth Relations Office.The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file 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 83; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning the legality, political context and practicalities involved in the possible extradition of a number of individuals, primarily Persian subjects, from Kuwait and Muscat to Persia at request of the Government of Persia. As such, the file contains a number of English language translations of letters (and relevant court summons) from the Persian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.In addition, the file also contains the following documents:A memorandum related to legal summons issued by foreign countries and Britain's responsibility to respond to them (folios 55-56)'Memorandum as to the Obtaining of Evidence in England for Foreign Tribunals in Civil and Commercial Matters' (folios 57-60)'Memorandum as to the Obtaining of Evidence in Scotland and Northern Ireland for Foreign Tribunals in Civil and Commercial Matters' (folio 61).The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file 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 86; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.