Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay, the Court of Directors of the East India Company; J Pyne, Collector of Customs at Bombay.The item concerns an explanation of the discrepancy between the valuation of the cargo of the
Duria Dowlutby the Customs House in Bombay, and the amount paid in compensation to the owners of the cargo by Captain Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, following the plunder of her cargo in 1835.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 41, P.C. [Previous Communication] 3659, [Season 18]43’, ‘Collection No 6 of No 27’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 278 and terminates at f 287, 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.
Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, extracts from a Bombay [Mumbai] Political Consultation, 2 July 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, 14 July 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 the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat’s complaint that his merchants are being unfairly treated at numerous Customs Houses in India and that, in particular, ‘Arab merchants’ are affected by this perceived mistreatment. Following confirmation from the Collector of Customs at Bombay that the Imaum’s vessels are charged the same as ‘British bottoms’ [goods carried on British ships], the matter is referred to the Government of Madras (also called Government of Fort St George [Chennai]) since an example given by the Imaum of this mistreatment mentions the Malabar Coast. The Government of Madras is reminded that the 1839 commercial treaty concluded between the Imaum and Her Britannic Majesty the Queen states that the Imaum’s vessels are to be charged the same amount of customs duty as British bottoms.The correspondents are: Captain Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul and the Company’s Agent in the Dominions of the Imaum of Muscat; H W Glass, Collector of Customs, Bombay; and the Government of Bombay.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: 13’, ‘Collection No. 1 of No. 76’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 513, and terminates at f 518, 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.