Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the Kuwait Order in Council for each year from 1920-1928. The Order in Council refers to the legal instruments whereby His Majesty the King has jurisdiction within the territories of the Shaikh of Kuwait whether by 'Treaty, capitulation, usage, sufferance and other lawful means.'Also included in the volume are copies of the Order in Council in Muscat and Bahrein [Bahrain]:'Statutory rules and orders, 1915. No. 132 Foreign Jurisdiction, the Maskat Order in Council, 1915' (ff 259-271)'The Bahrein Order in Council, 1913' (ff 272-284).The principal correspondents in the volume are: the Political Agent, Kuwait; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references 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 490; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.