File 39/23 I Negotiations for seabed oil in Bahrain, Trucial Coast and Qatar
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of letters, in English and Arabic, sent by the Political Agent at Bahrain to the local rulers requesting them to issue a proclamation claiming their jurisdiction over the seabed adjacent to the coasts of Qatar, Bahrain, and Abu Dhabi. A copy of the draft proclamation is ...
‘File 4/8 (2/4a) Article regarding Bahrain-U.K. Treaty; Dismissal of Ali bin Hussain, Secretary to the Manama Municipality’
Scope & Content:
The file contains an exchange of confidential correspondence, following Arab press reports of a new friendship treaty between the Sheikhs of Bahrain and the British Government. The correspondence is mainly between Meredith Worth (Officiating Political Agent, Bahrain), Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Go...
File 1/22 Handing Over and Taking Over by the Head Clerks on Transfer: Correspondence re
Scope & Content:
The file contains records of valuables kept on deposit [some as a result of legal cases], and firearms, ammunition, documents, and other items stored securely at the Political Agency, Bahrain. The papers include statements, lists, notes, receipts, and a small amount of correspondence, and cons...
‘File 13/5 II Registration of: - Deaths, Births and Marriages’
Scope & Content:
The file contains numerous quarterly death returns for British and British Indian subjects who died in Bahrain. These 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 notices a...
‘16/8 Miscellaneous:- Surveyor required for Khassab to take temperature readings under British Residency Bushire’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning a request from the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, made to the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave) via the Political Agent at Bahrain (Captain Reginald George Evelin William Alban), for a surveyor, who is required to take temperatur...
‘File 16/28A Examinations of the Gulf students in Foreign countries & Scholarships’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, application forms and other papers relating to scholarships and bursaries offered to students from the Persian Gulf by the British Council for the year 1950/51. The principal correspondents are: the Adviser to the Bahrain Government (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave); various represent...
File 17/5 III Furniture and Stores for the Bahrain Political Agency
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Correspondence between staff of the Political Agency, Bahrain, and numerous merchants regarding orders of furniture, stationery and other equipment for the Agency. The file also contains correspondence with the British Forces in Iraq and the Government of Bahrain regarding the supply of fire ext...
File 28/5 IV Visits of Tankers and Steamers etc. to Sitrah terminus
Scope & Content:
The file mainly contains Royalty Delivery Tickets showing the amount of oil shipped from January to May 1939, transmitted by the Political Agent at Bahrain to the Secretary of State for India and the Political Resident in the Gulf.
File 28/5 X Monthly statements of oil deliveries: royalty delivery tickets
Scope & Content:
The file mainly contains Royalty Delivery Tickets showing the amount of oil delivered to refinery from July 1942 to January 1943, transmitted by Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) representatives to the Political Agent at Bahrain.
File 36/60 Minutes of the Commercial Advisory Committee Meetings
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This file contains copies of the minutes of Bahrain's Commercial Advisory Committee. The Committee was a body composed of its president, Political Agent Major Tom Hickinbotham, a number of prominent local merchants based in Bahrain and G W R Smith, Director of Customs. The Committee is occasiona...
