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1. ‘Foreign Office budget for the year 1949-50 and six monthly expenditure etc.’
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- Abstract: The file comprises papers relating to the accounts (actual expenditure and estimated budget) of the Political Agencies at Bahrain and Sharjah:a copy of a circular written by Ernest Bevin, then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated 18 July 1946, requesting returns from overseas agencies of their expenditure for the period April to September 1946, and enclosing specimen forms (ff 3-7, with duplicates at ff 10-14);a copy of a second circular from Bevin, dated 30 April 1948, acknowledging the difficulties and delays in receiving accounts of expenditure for 1946, and stressing the need for accurate and prompt accounts for the period 1948-1949, with a revised form for returns enclosed (ff 8-9);compiled budget estimates for the Political Agency at Bahrain, and for the Sharjah and Dubai Agencies, for the financial year 1949-50 (ff 16-26);further specimen forms for annual returns of expenditure, listed under various subheadings (public information services, consular establishments, diplomatic establishments, commercial diplomatic establishments) (ff 31-37);the annual return of expenditure and receipts for the Political Agency in Bahrain for the period 1 April to 30 September 1948, with financial estimates for the subsequent eighteen months (ff 39-50).Financial figures are given in a mixture of British sterling and Indian rupees, with conversion rates indicated (for example, 1 pound sterling being equivalent to 13.26 rupees, f 39).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 52; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Condition: Water damage to the file notes (f 51) has obliterated a large portion of the handwritten notes on this folio.
2. ‘Foreign Office circulars. Particulars regarding temporary officers’
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- Abstract: The file comprises copies of circulars and other papers received at the Bahrain Political Agency from the Foreign Office (FO), relating to the administration of the Foreign Service at home and abroad. The file is arranged in three parts:The first part (ff 2-23) is headed ‘Establishment’ and comprises a report, authored by David Scott and dated 1 July 1946, with some circulars relating to the organisation (and reorganisation) of the Foreign Office in the post-war period. The report contains information on: FO recruitment; training; amalgamation of posts; home allowances; salary scales; promotion. Circulars relate to: training; medical schemes; first aid equipment; clothing coupons; recruitment, including application forms.The second part (ff 24-123) is headed ‘Circulars’ and comprises circulars received from the FO relating to: stationery supplies, including economy of use of stationery and supply of mourning stationery; supply of reference books, lists and other publications; salary scales; recruitment of typists, shorthand typists and clerical assistants, with application forms and notes; structure diagrams for the FO’s Establishment and Organisation, Finance, Establishment and Finance (Information), and Personnel Departments; Foreign Service post preference cards; forms for reporting on service; lists of FO circulars.The third part of the file (ff 124-128) contains correspondence exchanged between the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf and the Bahrain Political Agency, dated January 1948, relating to an FO circular requesting details of the particulars of FO temporary officers, and includes the particulars of the Political Agent (Cornelius James Pelly) and the Assistant Political Agent (Joseph Edward Havelock Hudson) (f 126, f 127).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 136; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Foliation anomalies: f 52a, f 52b.