File 9/7 Arms & Ammunition. Issue of Permits to Country-crafts to Carry Arms
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This file contains correspondence between Thomas Hickinbotham, British Political Agent in Bahrain, and various local nākhudās (dhow boat captains), as well as with Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government. These correspondence concern the requests of various nakhudas for permission to ...
Trade Reports of the Bahrain Islands for the financial years ended 31 March 1933 to 31 March 1936 inclusive, with associated correspondence. The reports list imports from twenty-nine countries (notably India, Iraq, Persia, England [the United Kingdom], Japan, Germany, Africa, Belgium and the Unit...
Trade reports and related material. The papers include Department of Overseas Trade Report on Economic and Commercial Conditions in the Persian Gulf, December 1936, by Frank H Todd, Vice-Consul, Bushire (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1937); trade reports of the Bahrain Islands for the...
File 10/7 III Trade and Commerce. Registration of trademarks and protection of inventions in the Bahrain Island
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Correspondence relating to trade marks (there was no registration of trade marks in Bahrain at this period, but foreign trade mark rights applied). The file includes examples of flower basket match labels imported from Czechoslovakia by Abdul Rahman Noor Alfarsi, Bahrain, that were similar to flo...
File 10/16 Legislation for preventing the import and sale in Bahrain of foreign imitations of British designs
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The file relates to foreign imitations of British textile designs. The file centres on information provided by the firm of J E Khedouri, import, export and commission agent, relating to the imitation of fabrics made in Manchester, United Kingdom. J E Khedouri (the proprietor) alleges in a letter ...
File 10/19 Prohibition of Certain Japanese Goods into Bahrain. Proposal re.
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The papers relate to a proposal from Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, on advice from the State Engineer, to ban the import from Japan of badly insulated wiring material, which had caused shocks and fires. The proposal was accepted by the Political Agent, Bahrain ...
Correspondence relating to imports of cement into Bahrain. The file includes enquiries from The Cement Marketing Company Ltd, London, about the amount of cement imported into Bahrain for each of the years 1929-1933, to which the Agency provided statistics in response. The enquiries were then disc...
File 10/26 Financial status of commercial firms and merchants
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Enquiries, reports and miscellaneous information about trading companies and merchants in Bahrain. The file describes the financial position and reputation of many individual companies and merchants and assesses their reliability as importers and agents. The term 'morality' is used as a synonym ...
The file contains reports and correspondence regarding five female slaves who were freed from kidnappers and sent to the Political Agency in Bahrain. The file includes documents in Arabic, a translation of a report containing statements from the five women, explaining what happened to them (foli...
File 11/3 Vol. II Applications for manumission - REPATRIATION
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The file mostly contains applications for manumission certificates granted by the British Residency in the Persian Gulf. The file also contains correspondence about the inheritance of a deceased manumitted slave (folios 2-7) in which both the former master who freed him, and his widow claim his i...
