Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, military letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden; the Military Board at Bombay; Lieutenant Colonel Wilson, commanding the troops at Aden; Lieutenant Curtis, Executive Engineer at Aden.The item concerns the proposals for the sale of the pendalls [temporary buildings] which were erected at Aden to house Her Majesty’s 6th Regiment of Foot [Royal Warwickshire Regiment] to the townspeople.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 80, P.C. [Previous Communication] 3711, [Season 18]43’, ‘Collection No 11’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 322 and terminates at f 330, 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: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, resolutions, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Court of Directors of the East India Company; Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden.The item concerns a request by the Court of Directors that the pendals [temporary buildings] at Aden, erected for the use of the officers of Her Majesty’s 6th Regiment of Foot [Royal Warwickshire Regiment], be sold, and a reply from Haines that they are currently occupied by the 10th and 16th Regiments of the Bombay Native Infantry.The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No. 10 of No 4 of 1843, Draft 475, P.C. [Previous Communication] 3900, [Season 18]43’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 807 and terminates at f 813, 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.
Abstract: This item consists of part five of the subject file 4613/1919 Iraq: Land Tenure. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq], particularly in relation to proposed construction by the British authorities.The part contains correspondence discussing a proposed new civil station and military cantonment, which would be located in the southern vicinity of Baghdad. Correspondents include the Acting Civil Commissioner in Baghdad (Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson), the Officiating Commander-in-Chief of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force (Major-General George Fletcher MacMunn), and officials of the India Office and the War Office.Included with this part are several plans showing the layout of the proposed sites, as well as the layout of a proposed Baghdad railway.Physical description: 1 item (22 folios)