‘File B/10 I (30/12) Miscellaneous Complaints and claims at Sharjah'
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The file contains correspondence relating to the investigation and settlement of several debt recovery claims made against mainly Arab subjects of the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, by merchants of Dubai and Sharjah who are British Indian subjects. The main correspondents are the Political Agent at B...
File No. E/20 V. O. ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES OF ORPHANS.
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The file contains correspondence in the form of letters, memoranda, and proclamations regarding the establishment of a department for the purpose of administering the estates of orphans who have no legal guardians. The suggestion was agreed upon by the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, the t...
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports, and notes for the period from November 1920 to February 1923 relating to the Kuwait/Najd boundary. The main topics discussed include: The attack on Jahra by the Ikhwan Bahrain Agency Mission to Ibn Sa`ud, 1...
This file relates to the Muscat Infantry (also referred to as the Muscat Levies), and the possibility of reducing the number of military guards that it provides in Muscat. The correspondence, which is mainly between the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat and the Political Resident in the Persi...
The file comprises four items of correspondence in the period 1939 to 1950 relating to a concession for prospecting for oil in Gwadur (at that time a dependency of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman). Issues discussed include the withdrawal in 1939 of the Burma Oil Company from negotiations with...
Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part I Historical and Political Materials, Précis of Turkish Expansion on the Arab Littoral of the Persian Gulf and Hasa and Katif [al-Qaṭīf] Affairs
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The volume is Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part I Historical and Political Materials, Precis of Turkish Expansion on the Arab Littoral of the Persian Gulf and Hasa and Katif Affairs (Simla: G C Press, 1904). The volume charts the history and internal affairs of Hasa and Katif [al-Qaṭīf] from early t...
‘File 7/27 Closing down of Royal Air Force station, Muharraq in 1947 and arrangements for maintaining and servicing Muharraq aerodrome’
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The file’s correspondence and other papers relate to the cessation of Royal Air Force (RAF) activities at Muharraq, as well as at Sharjah. Correspondence takes place between the Political Resident and Political Agent, and various representatives of the RAF and civil aviation authorities. The corr...
File 32/13 (1 B/3) Payment of a Proportion of Visa Fees Collected by Consular Officers to the Bahrain Government
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This file contains a letter from Claud Cranbrook Lewis deGrenier (on behalf of the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain) to the Political Agency in Bahrain in which he inquires whether visa fees for entry to Bahrain that are collected outside of the country should be remitted to the Government o...
File 6/58 II Accession Celebrations on H. E. Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa's accession as the Ruler of Bahrain Island
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The file contains two letters. The first is from Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, and gives notice of the subdued (due to war) celebrations to mark the anniversary of the accession of Shaikh Hamad bin 'Isa Al Khalifah [Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah] as ruler ...
File 9/6 I Arms & Ammunition. Rules and Regulations re- import of arms and ammunition into Foreign Countries
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This file contains correspondence between Hugh Weightman, the British Political Agent in Bahrain, with Samuel Burnside B McElderry, Chief Secretary to the Government of Zanzibar, and Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government. These correspondence concern the control of importation of le...
