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File 14/5 Correspondence regarding Postal arrangements at Shargah and Dubai
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams discussing the proposal to open a Post Office in Sharjah and Dubai. The Ruler of Sharjah requests that the name of Sharjah is printed on the stamps. The file also contains agreements with Imperial Airways for the delivery of mail, and arrangements f...
File 14/5 III Correspondence regarding postal arrangements at Sharjah and Dubai
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams regarding the postal service in Dubai. The file includes the 1946-1947 agreements with the contractor for the conveyance of mail at Dubai, Khan Sahib Husain (on folios 35-39 and 65-68), and correspondence regarding the purchase of a second hand car ...
File 17/13 GOVERNMENT PROPERTY. TIDE TABLES, BAHRAIN BUSHIRE ETC.
Scope & Content:
This file concerns tide tables relating to Bahrain, Bushire and other locations in the Gulf. It consists mostly of telegrams, memoranda, and brief letters of correspondence. Most of the file documents the efforts of the Political Agent, Bahrain, to obtain copies of tide tables for the Port of Bu...
The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, and the Shaikh of Mohammerah, Khaz'al al-Ka'bi, in southern Iraq. In particular, the correspondence concerns the Government of Iraq's intention to end the immunity from taxation...
The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, and the Shaikh of Mohammerah, Khaz'al al-Ka'bi, in southern Iraq. A particular taxation system called Istihlak (consumption) tax has been imposed by the Iraqi Government on the ...
File 8/65 IV MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: RENEWAL OF COMMERCIAL TREATY.
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the renewal of the 1891 Commercial Treaty between Britain and Muscat. The original treaty was given a term of twelve years, which was extended at regular intervals afterwards, initially for several years at a time and later on an annual basis. The file concerns the replacem...
‘File 5/188 I, 189 I Expenses incurred as a result of slaves taking refuge in consulates and agencies; manumission of slaves and general treatment of slave trade cases’
Scope & Content:
The first part of the volume contains correspondence to and from the Political Residency between 1912 and 1927, relating to the costs of providing refuge to slaves seeking manumission, incurred by the Persian Gulf Political Agencies and Consulates. Letters between the Treasury of the Government ...
File 61/22 I (D 116) Bahra Agreement: meeting of tribunal under the ---, 1930. Also bound with this file is 61/23:- treaty between Nejd & Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The volume contains two separate but related subject files: on the Bahra Tribunal (folios 1-80) and on a proposed treaty between Kuwait and the Kingdom of Nejd and Hejaz (folios 81-198). Both parts consist of correspondence relating to their subjects. The correspondents in both parts include Fr...
Historical Summary of Events in Territories of the Ottoman Empire, Persia and Arabia affecting the British Position in the Persian Gulf, 1907-1928
Scope & Content:
The volume is entitled Summary of Events in Territories of the Ottoman Empire, Persia and Arabia affecting the British Position in the Persian Gulf, 1907-1928 (printed by the Committee of Imperial Defence, October 1928). Includes sections on The Ottoman Empire, Persia, Arabia (Nejd [Najd]), Moh...
‘File 29/20 ii BAHRAIN & TRUCIAL COAST STOCK POSITION AND STATEMENT OF BAHRAIN IMPORTS, EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS OF CERTAIN FOODSTUFFS’
Scope & Content:
This is a correspondence file about the importation of essential food commodities and cotton piece goods from India to Bahrain and the Trucial Coast ports of Dubai and Sharjah, under the quota system and the export licensing restrictions imposed by the Government of India during the Second World ...
