File 15/26 Extension of Indian Coinage Act to Bahrain
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The file contains several Government of India circular letters, memoranda and notices issued mainly by the Finance Department, containing instructions and information about the following: Persons authorized to cut or break worn or defaced silver rupee coins, 1907; Withdrawal from circulation of ...
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire about improving and regularly testing the typing speed of several clerks and munshis employed at the Political Agency, Bahrain. File correspondence con...
‘Miscellaneous 16/14 Correspondence regarding supplying of diaries etc’
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Correspondence dated 1926, exchanged between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Major Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett) and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Beville Prideaux), regarding the distribution of the Bahrain Political Agency’s diaries. The correspondence...
‘File 16/31 Miscellaneous. Eastern Bank New Building– – Correspondence regarding:’
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Two pieces of demi-official correspondence, the first from H Bardon, Manager of The Eastern Bank Limited, Bahrain, dated 30 July 1931, and addressed to the Political Agent at Bahrain (Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior). The letter, along with Prior’s reply which is also dated 30 July 1931, relates t...
‘File No. 16/80 Labour Employed by Local Firms other than Bapco’
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Correspondence, and other papers received from employers in Bahrain, and from employees or former employees who are not native to Bahrain. In most cases the employees are of Indian or Pakistani origin, and require permits to live and work in Bahrain. The correspondence concerns: the recruitment ...
File 18/1 II Repairs to Buildings Ordinary Repairs
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The file relates to repairs needed to, or being carried out on, various rooms of the Bahrain Agency building, and other works including the placement of a new artesian well and repairs to a wall in the Agency garden. The file contains requests from the Political Agent, Bahrain, to British, India...
File 22/3 Daily readings of maximum and minimum temperatures
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The file is almost entirely comprised of statistical report sheets containing data about daily weather conditions in Bahrain, sent to the Political Agency by the Pilot Balloon Observatory on a fortnightly basis. The measurements are recorded two times a day (morning and afternoon). At first, onl...
This file contains a copy of a telegram sent from the Foreign Office in London to a number of British embassies and residencies globally on 13 April 1948. The telegram concerns the proposed recognition of Seif el-Islam Ahmed as the King of Yemen. The file also contains a covering letter that f...
File 33/2 Supply of News Telegrams (Reuters/WT Press) for Agency.
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The file concerns a proposal by the Political Agency, Bahrain to distribute copies of world news telegrams among selected organisations in Bahrain (including the American Mission) in exchange for a small subscription. The papers indicate that most of the organisations contacted were not intereste...
This file contains correspondence concerning the importation of cotton twist from India into Bahrain for the purpose of sail-making. The correspondence is primarily between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the External Affairs Department of the Government of India as well as with a number of...
