Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2376/126162. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Acting Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq]; Lieutenant-Colonel Williamson, HM Commissioner for settling the boundaries between Persia [Iran] and Turkey [Ottoman Empire]; and Major General G Tchirikoff, Russian Commissioner. It is the fourth in a series of fifteen items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns the use of the East India Company steamer
Nitocristo convey Williamson and Tchirikoff, with their suites, from Baghdad to Mohumrah [Khorramshahr] to commence their work in settling the Turco-Persian border.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 745 of 1850’, and ‘Coll[ection] No 5’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 52, and terminates at f 64 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: Enclosure no. 2 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Bombay [Mumbai] Castle, dated 24 February 1848. The item only contains an abstract of contents, detailing enclosures nos. 3-6 on the subject of coal for the use of the East India Company ship
Nitocrison the rivers of Mesopotamia [Iraq].Physical description: 1 item (3 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 102 of 1848, dated 30 November 1848. The enclosures are numbered 3-36 and are dated 13 January to 23 December 1848. They mostly consist of copies of correspondence, and minutes by the Governor of Bombay, regarding the East India Company's steam ship
Nitocrison the rivers of Mesopotamia [Iraq].The enclosures discuss matters including:An application from the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia for sanction to purchase a supply of two hundred tons of coal for the use of the
Nitocris, which was about to be despatched from England to Bussorah [Basra]The views of the Superintendent of the Indian Navy on the inexpediency of allowing Commander James Felix Jones to be absent from the
Nitocrisfor the purpose of conducting surveys in Mesopotamia and adjacent areasThe grant of a superior command allowance to Commander Jones of the
Nitocriswhile employed on the rivers of MesopotamiaThe continuance of the allowance of one hundred rupees per month granted to Commander Jones, for defraying the expenses incurred in making presents to Arab Chiefs.The main correspondents are as follows: the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay (Arthur Malet); the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia (Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson); the Superintendent of the Indian Navy (Commodore Sir Robert Oliver); the Secretary to the Government of India (Henry Miers Elliot); and the Military Auditor General, Bombay (Lieutenant Colonel George Moore).Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatches, numbered 1-36, on folios 320-324. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 95 of 1847, dated 12 November 1847. The enclosures are numbered 3-29 and are dated 14 April to 30 October 1847.The enclosures consist of correspondence, and minutes and resolutions of the Government of Bombay, relating to the steam ship
Nitocrison the River Euphrates. They discuss matters including:The price which should be paid for the purchase of a supply of coal for the use of the
Nitocrison the Euphrates (to be landed at Bussorah [Basra, also spelled Bussora in this item] and stored at Bagdad [Baghdad]), and the type of coal which would be most suitableThe resolution of the Government of Bombay that the officer proceeding in command of the
Nitocrisshould be enabled to distribute presents to persons (‘Arab Chiefs’) from whom he may receive aid in facilitating the surveys contemplatedThe amended scale of establishment (rates of pay for the Commander and crew) submitted by the Superintendent of the Indian Navy to the Governor of Bombay for the
NitocrisThe recommendation of the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] that Lieutenant James Felix Jones, commanding the steamer
Nitocris, be appointed Surveyor in Mesopotamia [Iraq] in addition to his present duties, to carry out ‘surveying mapping and reporting on the countries watered by the Tigris and Euphrates, and their affluents’, and his subsequent appointment on an allowance of five Rupees per day or 150 Rupees per month when actually employed on survey duty.The main correspondents are the following: the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet; the Superintendent of the Indian Navy, Captain Robert Oliver; the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson; and the Under-Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, William Edwards.Physical description: 1 item (44 folios)
Abstract: Enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 42 of 1846, dated 15 April 1846. The enclosures are dated and contain correspondence relating to the passage of the steam vessel
Nitocrisfrom the river Euphrates to Bombay [Mumbai]. This item commences with an abstract of contents (folios 569-572). Correspondence from the Government of Bombay.Physical description: 1 item (27 folios)