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49. Political No. 13 of 1873, Supplying Information Required by the Lords of the Treasury, with Regard to Expenses Incurred on Account of ‘Liberated’ Enslaved People, and Expressing the Opinion that the Amount in Question should be regarded as an Imperial Charge
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- Abstract: This item consists of a copy of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 17 January 1873, supplying information required by the Lords of the Treasury, with regard to expenses incurred on account of ‘liberated’ enslaved people, and expressing the opinion that the amount in question should be regarded as an imperial charge. The despatch replies to despatch No. 64 of 18 July 1872.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 113, and terminates at f 115a, 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. The sequence contains two foliation anomalies: f 113a and f 115a.
50. Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] Affairs
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- 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 91 of 1843, dated 26 December 1843. The enclosures are numbered 3-29 and are dated 2 March-26 December 1843. On folio 85 a note in black ink, states that ‘Enclosures in Bombay Secret Letter Number No. 90, dated 1st December 1843 are missing from this Collection.’The papers relate to the Euphrates flotilla. The enclosures contain correspondence from the Superintendent of the Indian Navy to the Secretary with the Governor of India and replies to these letters from the Secret Committee including:The dates it was operating and the resulting reportDiscussions of the salary allowance for Commander Henry Blosse Lynch and Lieutenant Charles Dugald Campbell, specifically the amount of ‘command allowance’ for Campbell when he was in charge of the Euphrates Flotilla after Lynch had proceeded to England on ‘sick certificate’Compilation of river charts and a memoir of the expedition for the Geographical Society of Bombay.Other correspondents include the Chief Engineer, Government of Bombay, and the Military Auditor General, Government of Bombay.Physical description: 1 item (61 folios)
51. Persian Gulf Affairs
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- 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 126 of 1842, dated 31 October 1842. The enclosures are numbered 3-47 and are dated 1 September to 29 October 1842. There is no abstract of contents.The enclosures, which consist mostly of correspondence with some resolutions of the Government of Bombay, relate to Persian Gulf affairs. They concern matters including:The Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Dundas Robertson, addressing a despatch to the Secret Committee, suggesting the advisability of removing the Residency from Bushire [Bushehr] to some other position in the Persian GulfRobertson residing in Karrack [Kharg] instead of Khoormooj [Khormoj] during the Summer months‘Insults’ to British subjects in Persia [Iran], including members of the British Mission and Residency, by soldiers in Bushire and others, and punishments for these ‘insults’The Government of Bombay requesting that Robertson be cautious in his proceedings at Karrack and refrain from ‘interfering in matters in which the British Government is not concerned’, in response to a letter from Robertson regarding the ‘oppressive conduct’ of Lootf Ally Khan [Luṭf ‘Alī Khān Lārī], the Officer in Charge of the detachment of Persian troops stationed at Karrack, towards the inhabitants of the island and the men under his commandThe removal of the Head Quarters of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf from Karrack to Bassadore [Basaidu, also spelled Bassidore in this item], and the establishment of a naval depot on BassadoreThe reply received from Abdoolla bin Sooneyan [‘Abdullāh bin Thunyān bin Ibrāhīm Āl Sa‘ūd], the Ruler of Nedgd [Najd, also spelled Nedjed in this item], to a letter from Robertson regarding Abdoolla bin Sooneyan’s letters to the ‘Arab Piractical Sheikhs’The Native Agent at Bahrein [Bahrain], Mirza Mahomed Ali [Mīrzā Muḥammad ‘Alī], reporting on affairs at Bahrein, including his account of what happened after it became known that some of the ‘women, children, slaves [enslaved persons] and dependents’ of Humood Omeree [Ḥammūd al-‘Umayrī] were in the Native Agent’s house under British protection, and Abdullah bin Ahmed [‘Abdullāh bin Aḥmad] ‘gave orders to his sons to go and kill them’ (folio 152v)The Government of Bombay requesting an enquiry to be instituted by the Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf into the conduct of the Native Agent at Bahrein in having first offered an asylum, and then surrendered to the contending factions on that island, persons whom it appears had fled to his house for protectionThe decision that no remuneration should be granted to the Moonshee [Munshi] attached to the Residency of the Persian Gulf for expenses incurred in entertaining a person in the ‘habit and character of a Derveesh [dervish]’ representing himself to be the son of the late Futteh Allee Shah [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār] of Persia and uncle of the present King [Shāh], but who was ‘an imposter’HM Consul and Honourable Company’s Agent in the Dominions of the Imam of Muscat (also spelled Maskat in this item), Captain Atkins Hamerton, addressing a letter to the Government of Mauritius regarding him sending a British seaman, James Dawson, to Mauritius to be tried for the murder of an ‘Arab’ seaman named Ramzan [Ramaḍān], a subject of the Imam of Muscat, in the town of ZanzibarDocuments relating to the complaint made to the Imaum [Imām] of Muscat against Robert Brown Norsworthy, residing in Zanzibar, by Schaikh Awez [Shaikh ‘Uways al-Barāw] of Barawa (also spelled Browa in this item)The reports of the Commodore in the Persian Gulf, William Lowe, on affairs in the Persian Gulf, including: the state of the public buildings at Bassadore; everything being ‘quiet on the [Arabian] Coast with the exception of their usual squabbles inland’ (folio 188); this season being the best for many years for pearl fishing, with some of the merchants having made large sums of money; and his recommendation of Ally [‘Alī], the eldest son of the Agent at Sharga [Sharjah], Moollah Hussain [Mullā Ḥusayn], for the position of Agent at Lingar [Bandar-e Lengeh]A complaint of obstruction by Persian soldiers to the passage through the gate of the town of Bushire of Lieutenants C D Campbell and W B Selby of the Indian NavyLieutenant A E Ball, commanding the Honourable Company’s brig of war Euphrates, reporting his proceedings on the trip he was deputed to take to the Arab Coast and pearl banks of the Persian GulfCommodore Lowe’s intended measures for removing the naval stores from Karrack to BushireThe separation of the Commodore in the Persian Gulf’s guard for the naval depot at Bassadore from the guard of the Resident in the Persian GulfThe appointment of a committee to determine whether a horse given to Commodore Lowe by the Prince of Shiraz is fit for cavalry, or should be sold by public auction; and the payment by the Government of Bombay of expenses incurred by Commodore Lowe and others on account of the horse.The main correspondents are the following: the Government of Bombay; the Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General; the Superintendent of the Indian Navy; HM Consul and Honourable Company’s Agent in the Dominions of the Imaum of Muscat; and the Deputy Adjutant General of the Army, Major C Hagart.Other correspondents include: Abdoolla bin Sooneyan; the Commodore in the Persian Gulf, William Lowe; HM Chargé d’Affaires at the Court of Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil; and the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Meerza Abul Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī, Īlchī Kabīr].Physical description: 1 item (138 folios)
52. Vouchers for Articles Purchased in Connection with Sir Harford Jones's Mission to Persia [Iran]
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- Abstract: A variety of vouchers, receipts, and invoices for items purchased in connection with Sir Harford Jones's Mission to Persia [Iran], 1807-1811.Physical description: 1 item (10 folios)
53. Coll 30/210(3) 'Bahrein State Police: Expenses incurred by candidates attending selection boards. PAY AND PENSIONS CONTRIBUTIONS.'
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- Abstract: The first part of the file heading: 'Bahrein State Police: Expenses incurred by candidates attending selection boards' has been crossed out in pencil.The file concerns the employment by the Bahrain State Police of a detachment of British police officers seconded from the United Kingdom. The file contains similar content to IOR/L/PS/12/3951A-B.The papers cover: travel expenses for individual police officers for attendance at interview; expenses claims from local constabularies in the United Kingdom; passages to Bahrain; pay statements; and accounting arrangements. The papers show that in 1948 the Government of Bahrain indicated that they had no wish to replace seconded police officers who had left their service; this followed incidents of misbehaviour on the part of police sergeants had served in Bahrain recently (folio 29).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 313; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
54. Coll 29/59 'Bushire Residency: travelling allowances'
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- Abstract: The file concerns travelling costs for the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf and its officesThe file contains correspondence related to:hire of despatch vessel for the Political Resident, 1932increase in travelling allowance grants, 1935accommodation for the staff of the Political Resident when in tour, 1942daily allowance of Political Resident and his officers when travelling on duty in Persia, Egypt and Iraq, 1945.The file is composed of correspondence between Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Government of India, Secretary of State for India, and India Office.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 34; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
55. File 1647/1918 Pts1-2 'HEDJAZ: MECCA HOSTEL; BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE AT MECCA'
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- Abstract: This volume consists of two parts, Part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/740/1) and Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/740/2), both of which contain papers relating to the planned establishment of a hostel at Mecca to house pilgrims from the British Empire, and the appointment of a British Muslim Representative at Mecca to look after the interests of such pilgrims.Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 343; 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 310-319; these numbers are written in red pencil. The sequence contains one foliation anomaly, f 232a.
56. File 57/1928 Pt 18 'Iraq-Nejd Relations: Meeting between Ibn Saud & King Faisal. Incidence of cost of "Patrick Stewart". Appreciation of services of Commander.'
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- Abstract: The part concerns the conveyance of Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, King of Hejaz and Nejd] to a meeting with King Feisal [Fayṣal I] of Iraq in February 1930, aboard the IGTS Patrick Stewart; the question of liability for the cost of the visit; and the question of liability for expenses incurred by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf in connection with the relief of refugees, and his mission to Ibn Saud.The papers include: a letter from Ibn Saud expressing gratitude for his treatment aboard the Patrick Stewart(folio 101); a report on the journey by J Marr, Commander of the Patrick Stewart(folios 95-100); India Office correspondence and memoranda, and correspondence from the Colonial Office, the Foreign Office, and the Government of India, concerning the liability for the costs of the journey; and correspondence from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Vincent Biscoe), the Government of India, and the Colonial Office, concerning expenditure incurred by the Political Resident in supporting refugee women and children from the camp of Faisal al Dawish [Fayṣal bin Sulṭān al-Dawīsh] at Jahrah [Al-Jahrah], and the mission of the Political Resident to Ibn Saud.The Colonial Office agreed to pay all the expenditure incurred (folios 63 and 43).Physical description: 1 item (60 folios)