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61. ‘Vol 251 Unsettled affairs for Resident’s attention during Tour of Arab Ports, 1859/60; Turkish Arabia, Mohumrah [Khorramshahr], General’
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- Abstract: The file contains miscellaneous correspondence and reports produced at or for the attention of the Persian Gulf Residency. The chief correspondents in the file are Captain Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf, and Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay:Outstanding affairs for the Resident’s attention during the course of his tour of the Gulf in 1859 (folios 3-10), arranged by port. On the reverse of these pages are diary entries (folios 9v-10v), covering the period 28 April to 21 May 1859, and containing details of the Resident’s tour, including ports visited, gun salutes, and gifts to rulers;A table of affairs for the Resident’s attention during the course of his tour of the Gulf in 1860 (folios 14-20). Additional pencil annotations have been made in the table’s remarks column at a later date. A second table (folios 21-22) entitled ‘Memorandum of cash sent with Resident for payments on Tour of 1860’ has information on the details and amounts of payments made and received;Correspondence dated 9 May to 22 September 1860 (folios 24-28), chiefly concerning the Government’s complaints over the longwinded nature of Jones’s reports to Government;Correspondence between 15 April and 23 December 1859 (folios 30-36), concerning the likely split between Muscat and Zanzibar, and the implications of the split for the British Agent at Muscat, including Jones’s reservations relating to the efficacy of having a Native Agent of Jewish extraction in Arab Muscat;Correspondence, dated 29 June 1857 (folios 38-39), relating to the Resident’s legal ability to solemnise marriages;Correspondence from Anderson, dated 7 June 1857 (folios 40-41) enclosing a Court of Director’s despatch stressing the importance of having European officers investigate any allegations of torture;A report, forwarded by Anderson to Jones, and authored by Richard Spooner, Commissioner of Customs, Salt and Opium, dated 11 May 1857 (folios 42-52), containing tables showing the chief imports from Bushire into Bombay and Bussora [Basra] into Bombay, and exports from Bombay to Bushire and Bombay to Basra;A circular from Government, dated 4 November 1858 (folios 53-55), with printed Government of India correspondence, relating to the conduct of officers with regard to the religion of natives of India.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence starts on the front cover and ends on the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil, and can be found in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The following foliation anomalies occur: 11, and 11A. The inside back cover is unfoliated.There is evidence of insect damage throughout the file, in the form of holes in pages. Some of these holes are in areas of pages that contain text.
62. 'Vol 58 Native Letters Inward'
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- Abstract: This file contains translations of letters sent to David Wilson, the Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire.The letters contained in the file are from Britain's native agents (based at Bahrain, Muscat, Sharqah [Sharjah] and Lingah) and from several local rulers including the Chief of Bushire, the Imam of Muscat, Shaik Sooltan Bin Suggur [Sulṭān bin Saqr Āl Qāsimī, the Ruler of Sharjah], Shaik Abdoolla of Kishm [Shaikh Abdullah of Qeshm] and the Chief of Lingah.The letter discuss a number of topics related to political and trade developments in the region and to Britain's relations with local rulers.Physical description: Condition: A bound letter book, the covers of which have come loose.Pagination: The file has a pagination sequence, which is written in the top right corner of each recto and the top left corner of each verso. It begins on the front cover, on number 1A, and ends on the last page of writing, on number 183.
63. ‘Vol 9 Persian Gulf Wreck. Brig “Mary Mullaby” & Gooncha “Narrayen Pursad”’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. It is the ninth in a series of eleven items about the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/2050/93533, 93534, 93535, 93536, 93537, 93538, 93539, 93540, 93542, and 93543). The principal correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Rubil bin Uslan [Rubik bin Aslan], Native Agent at Muscat.The item concerns the wreck of the Brig Mary Mullaby[ Mary Mallaby] and the recovery of two boxes alleged to have contained treasure which were found to contain copper dross. It also concerns an alleged case of fraud connected to the gooncha [ghanja] Narrayen Pursad[ Nārayaṇa Parsād].The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Coll No [Collection Number] 1, Draft 558, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4291, [Season 18]44’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 826 and terminates at f 847, 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 volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
64. ‘Vol: 3. Persian Gulf – Effects of a British subject who died at Muscat, taken possession of, by the Resident in the – and made over to the heirs.’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. It is the third in a series of three items about the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/1929/82843 and IOR/F/4/1929/82844). The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Meeya Futtabhoy Ameejee [Miyan Fathbha'i Aminji], a businessman in Bombay.The item concerns the disposal of the estate belonging to Shaik Ally Bohra Esabhoy [Shaikh Ali Buhra al-Sabahi], a British subject who died at Muscat.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No. 13 of No. 50, Draft 31, P.C. [Previous Communication] 3302, [Season] 1842’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 393 and terminates at f 415, 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.
65. 'British protectorate over the Arabian coast from Shaikh Said to Oman (Muscat)'
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- Abstract: This printed memorandum, compiled on 1 November 1887 by E Neel at the Secret and Political Department of the India Office, contains excerpts of correspondence sent and received by the Government of India between 14 February 1873 and 19 August 1887.The main subject is the extension of the British Protectorate scheme to tribes on the Hadramaut [Hadramawt] Coast, between Muscat and Aden.On folio 139 there is a reference to 'Map of Arabian Coast from Shaikh Said to Oman (Muscat)' which says: 'See IOR: Maps W/LPS/18/B.47 (i)'.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at f 136, and terminates at f 139, as it is part of a larger physical volume; 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 5-149; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same poistion as the main sequence.
66. 'Negotiations with Ibn Saud regarding Boundaries of Saudi Arabia'
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- Abstract: This file contains a letter, dated 31 August 1950, from F L C Chauncey, His Majesty's Consul at Muscat, to the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain, enclosing a report entitled 'Notes on the Tribes of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman' (ff 4-28). The report is in response to a letter from the Political Residency, No. 378/27/50G, dated 19 August 1950, regarding specific tribes and their relations with Saudi Arabia. These include: Al bu Shamis [Āl Bū Shāmis], Awamir [al-‘Awāmir], Janabah, Al Daru [al-Darū‘] and Bani Qitab [Banī Qitab]. The report contains details about these and other tribes. In addition, the final eight folios are comprised of a table of details of the tribes, such as district, principal settlements and villages, names of shaikhs, estimated population, estimated number of rifles and other remarks.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover and terminates at the back cover; 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 incomplete foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 3-28; these numbers are also written in pencil and ink, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
67. ‘File 5/190 III Manumission of slaves at Muscat: individual cases’
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- Abstract: The volume contains thirty-nine manumission subjects, each one involving the manumission request of one or more slaves, who had sought refuge at the Political Agency in Muscat (then under the charge of Major G. Murphy). Each manumission case follows a very similar pattern. Murphy sent a copy of the slave‘s manumission certificate (with covering letter) for the attention of the Secretary to the Political Resident, making his own recommendation as to whether manumission should be given. In most cases, the Secretary to the Political Residency responded by agreeing to the manumission request. In the case of slaves who had been kept in the Trucial Coast towns (Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi), a copy of the manumission statement was forwarded by the Secretary to the Political Resident to the Residency Agent in Sharjah (‘Īsá bin ‘Abd al-Latif), who was asked to make enquiries as to the validity of the slave’s statement.A small number of the manumission cases are more complex. In July 1931, the Political Residency heard of a slave who had had his right hand cut off and been imprisoned at the decree of the shaikh of Dubai, after having been accused of theft (folio 195). Enquiries made by ‘Īsá bin ‘Abd al-Latif suggested that the slave was caught in the act of robbery. A medical certificate from the Agency Hospital in Muscat verified the extent and recent nature of the punishment meted out on the slave (folio 199). The Political Resident (Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Biscoe) wrote to the Residency Agent (folio 215) to protest in the strongest terms to the shaikh of Dubai about the severity of the punishment handed out to the slave, insisting that imprisonment was the usual punishment in this day.Another case was brought to the attention of the Secretary to the Political Resident by the Political Agent Muscat in June 1932, in which a pearl diver from Umm-al-Qaiwain, who claimed to be a slave, requested manumission. ‘Īsá bin ‘Abd al-Latif agreed with the manumission request, commenting that, because the demand for and price of pearls had decreased considerably in recent years, many divers had become heavily indebted. He advised that, once the slave had been given his manumission certificate, he should return to Sharjah to enable the Residency Agent to carry out the necessary enquiries relating to the slave’s debt (said to be 520 rupees) in the Diving Court. Another manumission request was made by a slave who was kept at Kalba, near Muscat. The Political Resident requested that, in future, the Political Agent at Muscat treats affairs (including slaves) in Kalba, as the Political Agent Bahrain treats affairs in Qatar.Physical description: Foliation: The volume has been foliated with a circled number in the top-right corner of each recto, from the title sheet to the last folio of the volume. An earlier foliation system has been used on each manumission case, expressed as page xof ypages, written in pencil in the top-right corner of each recto. A very small number of these internal numbering systems do not run in the correct numerical sequence, suggesting that items were bound in the incorrect order.
68. 'File 9/6 Muscat date trade'
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- Abstract: The file contains a copy of a letter sent by the British Resident in the Persian Gulf to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, regarding the date trade in Muscat. The letter encloses copies of letters forwarded by the Political Agent at Muscat on the cultivation of dates in the Persian Gulf, including a section of the report written by Mr Dawson of Basra 'on the Fauna, Flora and Geology of the parts of the Batinah visited by him in 1927' (folios 12-22).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 23; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
69. 'File 9/26 India and Persian Gulf Bank Limited'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the proposed opening of a bank called Indian and Persian Gulf Bank Ltd with Iraqi capital, headquarters in Karachi and branches at Kuwait, Dubai and Muscat.There is a letter in Arabic with English translation, and a copy of a letter forwarded by the Residency Agent at Sharjah.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 39; 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 mixed foliation/pagination sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-38; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. They are located in the same position as the main sequence, except for some instances which are located on the verso.
70. 'File 9/27 Establishment of Imperial Bank of Iran on the Trucial Coast'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the establishment of branches of the Imperial Bank of Iran at Dubai and Muscat.The file contains documents in Arabic and English: two copies (one drafted in 1941) of the banking agreement between Sheikh Said bin Maktum [Shaikh Saʿīd bin Maktūm Āl Maktūm], Ruler of Dubai, and the Imperial Bank of Iran and related correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 90; 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 2-82; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
71. 'File 9/37 Foreign exchange'
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- Abstract: The file mainly contains applications submitted for US dollar exchange for importing goods, plus letters of credit granted by the Political Agent at Bahrain.Subjects discussed within the file are an increase in the quota for imports to the ports of Kuwait, Bahrain, Dubai, Muscat and Gwadur, and the purchase of plants for the production of ice in Bahrain.Correspondents include the Persian Gulf Residency at Bahrain, the Eastern Bank Limited, the Imperial Bank of Iran, Petroleum Development Qatar and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain.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 137; 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 1-136; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
72. 'Company's Broker at Muscat allowed a salary of 100 rupees per month'
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- Abstract: This item consists of extracts from letters from the Secretary to the Governor-General regarding the request from the East India Company's Broker at Muscat to allow the import of salt from Muscat to Bangal [Bengal]. In addition, the letter mentions some information regarding French and Dutch merchants in Muscat. The item contains four different extracts: an extract of a political letter from Bombay dated 31 July 1797; an extract of a Bombay Political Consultation dated 30 September 1796; a translated letter from Narotum Ramchunder Josfsey, Broker at Muscat, to the Honourable Governor; an extract of a Bombay Political Consultation dated 25 November 1796; an extract of a letter from the Secretary of the Governor-General; an extract of a Bombay Political Consultation, 4 August 1797; an extract of a letter to Narotum Ramchunder Jofsey, Broker at Muscat.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 141, and terminates at f 150, 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.