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49. ‘Muscat. A Distressed Native of Meerzapoor sent to Bombay and afterwards provided with a passage to Calcutta –’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Atkins Hamerton, Agent and Consul in the dominions of the Imam of Muscat; Mr Larkin, Officiating Senior Magistrate of Police at Bombay; and Gregor Grant, Senior Magistrate of Police at Bombay.The item concerns a fifteen-year-old boy, originally from Meerzapoor [Mirzapur] who was left on the island of Pemba and then sent to Zanzibar. From there, Hamerton sent him to Bombay, and he was afterwards conveyed to his family in Calcutta [Kolkata].The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 700/47, Collection No 3 of No 7’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 4, and terminates at f 11, 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.
50. ‘Muscat. Intelligence.’
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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. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Major Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty’s Consul and the Honourable Company's Agent in the Dominions of His Highness the Imaum [Imām] of Muskat [Muscat].The item concerns the death of Josiah Napier, Her Majesty’s Consul for the Comoro Islands, while staying at the British Consulate at Zanzibar.The item contains a table of contents (f 870), and the title page (f 869) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 5’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 869 and terminates at f 872, 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.
51. ‘Muscat. Affairs.’
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- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, extracts from a Bombay [Mumbai] Political Consultation, 28 May 1845. The papers contained in this item are partial enclosures to a Political Letter sent from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 10 June 1845. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2122/100076, alongside details of further enclosures.The item relates to a report written by Captain Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul and the Company's Agent in the Dominions of the Imam of Muskat [Muscat], on a conversation he had with the Imam of Muskat on the subject of a group based in Zanzibar who intend to reduce the level of British influence there. Multiple people are blamed by the Imam and by Hamerton for the ill feeling towards the British. Hamerton's report is instructed to be sent to the Government of India, the Court of Directors, and the Resident in the Persian Gulf.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5061, Draft 29/46, Coll[ection]: 23, Vol: 8’, 'Collection No. 7 of No. 62' and ‘Examiner's Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 493, and terminates at f 497, 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.
52. ‘Muscat. Relative to the disbursements of the Hon[our]able Company’s Agent at.~’
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- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions, cited in, or enclosed with, an extract of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 16 September 1850.The item relates to the payment of expenses incurred by Captain Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul and the Company's Agent at Zanzibar. The expenses relate to: assisting two Johanna 'chiefs' [rulers from Anjouan] in Zanzibar; use of the Company ship Tigris; and repairs to Hamerton's official residence and to the flag staff [flagpole]. The item includes copies of Hamerton's bills, statements and relevant correspondence, which he sends to the Government of Bombay along with instructions for reimbursement. In addition, the item contains discussions about the best way for Hamerton to obtain cash in order to carry out public service, as well as how he should complete forms for claiming expenses.Correspondents include: Hamerton; Edward Eden Elliot, Civil Auditor, Bombay; Gilbert James Blane, Acting Accountant General; and the Government of Bombay.Hamerton is also referred to as HM Consul and the Company's Agent in the Dominions of the Imam [Imām] of Muscat.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', 'Draft No. 931 of 1850', 'Collection No 10 of No 76', and 'Examiner's Office'.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 784, and terminates at f 803, 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.
53. ‘Muscat. Slave Trade.’
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- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence which form partial enclosures to a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 27 March 1846. A copy of this letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2157/103838.The item contains extracts from a letter from the Court of Directors to the Government of Bombay, 27 November 1844. This letter relates to the ‘slave trade’ [trade in enslaved people] that is undertaken by subjects of the British government and subjects of the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat. In particular, it mentions reports by Captain Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul and the Company’s Agent in the Dominions of the Imaum of Muscat, of enslaved people being held in the Imaum’s dominions by British subjects. The extracts are forwarded to Hamerton, along with instructions to urge the Imaum to extend current prohibitions.The extracts are also forwarded to Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, alongside instructions with regards to the vigilance and exertion required to suppress the ‘slave trade’. Hennell replies requesting a list of documents.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5410, Draft 786/46’, ‘Vol: 10’, ‘Collection N. 10 of N. 39’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’. The ‘N. 10’ has been crossed out with different ink.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 889, and terminates at f 895, 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.
54. ‘Muscat. Appointment of a Medical Officer of the rank of Apothecary to the Hon’ble Company’s Agency in the dominions of His Highness the Imaum of stationed at Zanzibar – Vol: 15’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2349/123808. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; the Bombay Medical Board; and Assistant Surgeon Lawes. It is the fifteenth in a series of twenty-four items on events in the Persian Gulf.This item concerns the appointment of Lewis George as Apothecary attached to the establishment of the British Consul and Agent in the Dominions of the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat, based at Zanzibar, and the promotion of Hospital Steward George DeCruz to the rank of Apothecary.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 334 of 1850’, ‘Coll[ection] 4’, and ‘Collection No 2 of No 111’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 287, and terminates at f 295 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.
55. ‘Muscat. Report of the possessions of His Highness the Imaum.’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, a political letter from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Captain Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty's Consul and the Honourable Company's Agent in the Dominions of His Highness the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat. The political letter, of which this item is an enclosure, can be found in IOR/F/4/2121/100024.The item concerns a request by the Government of India for a report on the history of Britain’s relations with the states on the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf, and contains a report on the Imam of Muscat and the territories belonging to him, produced by Captain Hamerton, and related correspondence.The item contains a table of contents (f 331), and the title page (f 330) contains the following references: ‘P C [Previous Communication] 5061, Coll. 5, Vol. 3’, ‘D/t 29/46’, ‘Collection No. 3 of No. 18’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 330 and terminates at f 339, 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.
56. ‘Muscat. Increase to the salaries of the Moonshee and Assistant Apothecary attached to the Establishment of Major Hamerton, Honble. Company’s Agent in the Dominions of H H the Imam of Muscat.’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, an extract of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 23 May 1854. The enclosures are dated 7 September 1852-18 January 1854.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; Major Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul and the Company’s Agent in the Dominions of the Imam of Muscat; and Gilbert James Blane, Deputy Accountant General in charge, Bombay.The item concerns requests for increases to the salaries of Mirza Hajee Kullal [Ḥājī Mīrzā Dallāl?] and the apothecary employed at the Zanzibar Agency, in light of the high expense of living in Zanzibar.The item contains a table of contents (f 434), and the title page (f 433) contains the following references: Draft Number ‘858/54’, ‘Collection No. 6 of No. 38 of 1854’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 433 and terminates at f 446, 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.
57. ‘Muscat. Complaints against Captain Hamerton, Her Majesty’s Consul and Honble Company’s Agent.’
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- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, Political Letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 19 June and 19 July 1845.The item relates to explanations provided by Captain Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul at Zanzibar and the Company’s Agent in the Dominions of the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat, in response to complaints made against him by Captain Robert Cogan and the Imaum. Hamerton is accused of:Being disrespectful to the Imaum and his subjectsMisrepresenting the Imaum to the Government of BombayCausing a resident of Zanzibar to be cruelly punished.Hamerton provides examples of occasions on which he has had to complain to the Imaum, especially with regards to the proper enforcement of the commercial treaty concluded between the Imaum and Her Britannic Majesty. However, he states that he has never intentionally disrespected the Imaum or his subjects. He also provides his own account of the incident in which the Zanzibar resident was punished, as well making his own allegations against Cogan. The item also includes the Governor of Bombay’s thoughts on Hamerton’s responses.Hamerton is also referred to as the ‘Agent at Muscat’, even though he is based at Zanzibar.The correspondents are: Hamerton and the governments of India and Bombay.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5061, Draft 29/46, Coll[ection]: 27’, ‘Collection No. 1 of No. 68’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 666, and terminates at f 692, 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.
58. ‘Muscat. Liabilities of British subjects entering into slave transactions in His Highness the Imaum’s dominions. Vol: 6’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, memoranda, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Augustus Le Messurier, Advocate General in Bombay; the Government of India; and Captain Atkins Hamerton, British Consul in the Dominions of the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat. It is the sixth in a series of seventeen items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2112/99462, IOR/F/4/2112/99463, IOR/F/4/2112/99464, IOR/F/4/2112/99465, IOR/F/4/2112/99466, IOR/F/4/2112/99468, IOR/F/4/2112/99469, IOR/F/4/2112/99470, IOR/F/4/2112/99471, IOR/F/4/2112/99472, IOR/F/4/2112/99473, IOR/F/4/2112/99474, IOR/F/4/2112/99475, IOR/F/4/2112/99476, IOR/F/4/2112/99477, and IOR/F/4/2112/99478).The item concerns the proclamation of the Imaum of Muscat [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd] prohibiting the sale of enslaved people to, or purchase of them from, British subjects, and the importation of British subjects from India. The item concerns the legal implications of this proclamation and the extent of the Bombay criminal court’s jurisdiction over British subjects accused of trading enslaved people while in the territory of the Imaum of Muscat.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 872/45, P.C. [Previous Communication] 5013, Collection No 3 of No 77’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 154, and terminates at f 165, 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.
59. ‘Muscat. Residence at Zanzibar for Her Majesty’s Consul & Hon’ble Company’s Agent’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Military Board of Bombay; the Court of Directors of the East India Company; the Imaum of Muscat [Imam of Muscat, Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd]; Captain Atkins Hamerton, British Consul and Company Agent in the Dominions of the Imam of Muscat; Lieutenant Colonel Jervis, Chief Engineer at Bombay; and Captain Turner, Civil Architect at Bombay.The item concerns building a suitable residence for Hamerton at Zanzibar, including detailed estimates of the costs of materials and labour. The need for a house at Zanzibar is also the subject of IOR/F/4/2006/89516.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 291/45, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4747, Collection No 3 of No 101’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 1015 and terminates at f 1043, 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.
60. ‘Muskat. Claim for Table allowance on account of the accommodation afforded on board the Schooner “Mahi” to Prince Hillall and suite. Vol: 11’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, reports, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2203/108134. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Government of India; Lieutenant Macdonald; Major-General Barr, Military Auditor General at Bombay; and Captain Sir Robert Oliver, Superintendent of the Indian Navy. It is the eleventh in a series of thirty items.The item concerns the table expenses incurred by Lieutenant Macdonald of the Honourable Company’s schooner Mahiwhile conveying the eldest son of the Imam of Muscat [Hilāl bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], from Aden to Zanzibar, with two members of his suite. A copy of the rules on conveying passengers, dating from 1840, is included on folios 696 to 699.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 700/47, Coll[ection]: 18, Collection No 10 of No 37’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 689, and terminates at f 705 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.