‘File 13/5 I REGISTER OF DEATHS BIRTHS AND MARRIAGES’
Scope & Content:
The file contains numerous quarterly death returns for British and British Indian subjects who died in Bahrain. The returns were compiled by the Political Agent, Bahrain and sent to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. There are several birth and death certificates, marriage not...
‘File 15/8 II General Provident Fund Rules and Insurance Policies’
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The file contains Government of India circular letters, memoranda and notices issued mainly by the Finance Department and the Office of the Accountant-General, Central Revenues Department. These were regularly forwarded by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire to the Political Agen...
‘File 15/8 III Rules regarding General Provident Fund and Insurance Policies’
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All documents in the file were circulated by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire and later Bahrain, to the Political Agent, Bahrain and others, from May 1942 onwards, for information and guidance. The earliest document is a circular letter dated 17 May 1923 (folio 43 verso), w...
‘File 15/50 KEY LEAVE Scheme and Passage rules relating to it’
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The file contains Government of India circular letters from the External Affairs Department (later the External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations Department), the Home Department and the Finance Department. These circulars contain rules and procedures relating to the Key Leave Scheme, 1944-1947...
‘File 16/70 Photographs of Ex-Political Agents & Ex. Asst. Political Agents. Bahrain.’
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Correspondence of a demi-official nature, concerning the Political Agent at Bahrain’s (Cornelius James Pelly) attempts to acquire photographs of his predecessors (and former Assistant Political Agents), so that they might be hung along a staircase in the Political Agency. Some of the replies fro...
File 28/12 Enquiry by the Manager. The Bahrain Petroleum Company re: Local Laws
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The file contains correspondence from the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) manager, requesting information from the Political Agent on the Bahrain land regulations. There are two notices in Arabic and English and a document on 'Land Registration' (folios 10-15).
File 28/47 Tyres and tubes, cements & c. for Bahrain Petroleum Company
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The file contains correspondence between the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) representative, the Political Agents at Bahrain and the Government of India on the delay of cement imported from India and the arrangements to receive 500 tons from RAF instead, and on other various supplies.
File 36/44 Cigarettes & Matches from U.K. & U.S.A.
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This file contains applications for shipping space and related correspondence that were sent to the Political Agency in Bahrain from a number of merchants active in Bahrain. The applications relate to requests to import cigarettes (and matches) from the United Kingdom and the United States into ...
File 36/56 Lack of Shipping Space for Goods from India
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This file contains correspondence regarding delays in goods being shipped to Bahrain from India. The Correspondence is primarily between the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Government of India and the Government of Bahrain Customs Department.
This file contains correspondence regarding a request made by the merchant Ali R Reza to import powdered milk from a supplier based in the United States. The correspondence includes Reza's original request sent to the Political Agency in Bahrain and related correspondence between British offic...
