File 9/27 Naval & Shipping: Right of foreign vessels to fly British flag when chartered by British subjects
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Correspondence between officials at the Foreign Office and the Board of Trade concerning what rights foreign vessels chartered by British subjects have to fly the British flag. The correspondence is forwarded to the Political Agency, Muscat, by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.
Cairo Packet Agency A/C Current and Mail Charges, 1838-1859
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This file is divided into two sections, titled 'Cairo Packet Agency, A/C Current' and 'Cairo Packet Agency, Mail Charges', and contains the accounts current and mail charges of the Cairo Packet Agency, from January 1838 through September and March 1859 respectively. The accounts current and mail...
The file contains correspondence relating to the dispute between Abu Dhabi and Dubai over Khor Ghanadhah. The correspondence is between the British Agency at Sharjah, the Political Agency at Bahrain, the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain, Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Maktūm Āl Maktūm, the r...
File I B Sep 1915 199-207 Presentation of K.C.B. and C.B. Insignia to Lt. General Sir M.H.S. Grover, and Lt. Col. W.R. Edwards respectively. Presentation of C.I.E. Badge to Major S.R. Christophers, M.B., I.M.S., and the delivery of G.C.I.E. grant to Sri Sir Kantirava Narasimharaja Wadiyar, Bahadur, Yuvaraja of Mysore.
Correspondence relating to Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Sa'id bin Taimur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman signed in 1937 to replace a treaty signed in 1891. The file includes correspondence on municipal tax; prolongation of 1891 treaty; the Sultan's draft wit...
This file concerns protests by Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited to the British Political Agent at Bahrain regarding the plan of Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, the Ruler of Qatar, to impose a system of taxation on its employees and the question of whether this breaches Article 10 of the...
File No. 1/9 TELEGRAMS RECEIVED AND ISSUED FOR VARIOUS AUTHORITIES
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The file comprises telegrams to and from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf regarding matters relating to the administration and staffing of the Political Residency and Political Agencies in the Persian Gulf. Matters discussed in the file include: telegrams regarding leave arrangements f...
The file contains correspondence relating to the import of livestock in Bahrain. The correspondence is mostly between the Political Agent, Bahrain (Hugh Weightman, later Captain John Baron Howes (acting)), Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior), Advise...
The file contains correspondence regarding use of the Manama to Muharraq causeway (Shaikh Hamad Bridge) in Bahrain. The correspondence is between the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), Political Agency in Bahrain, Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Office of...
The file comprises a single piece of correspondence, a letter sent by the Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Cornelius James Pelly) to the British Political Agents and Consuls in the Persian Gulf region, dated 2 January 1947 (f 2). Enclosed with the letter is a typewritten e...