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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Kuwait Order in Council Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. IOR/L/PS/10/245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/245
Title:
File 897/1912 Pt 4 ‘Persian Gulf: British post offices’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, agreements, notes and other papers relating to the closure of British Indian post offices in Persia, and the transfer of postal services from British Indian to Persian administration. The specific focus of the volume’s contents is a conference, taki...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1922-1925
Extent:

1 volume (229 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/882

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/882
Title:
File 697/1920 'Koweit Order-in-Council'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the Kuwait Order in Council for each year from 1920-1928. The Order in Council refers to the legal instruments whereby His Majesty the King has jurisdiction within the territories of the Shaikh of Kuwai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920-1930
Extent:
1 volume (488 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/105

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/105
Title:
PZ 2391/34 'Utilisation of the waters of a river flowing through two States. F.O. Confidential Memorandum. Iraq Govt's request for copy'
Scope & Content:
The file contains an exchange of letters in April 1934 between India Office officials and Mr Stephen Gaselee, the Foreign Office Librarian, about acceding to the Iraqi Government’s request for a copy of the ‘Memorandum respecting the Utilisation of the Waters of a River flowing through two State...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Aug 1926-30 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/154

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/154
Title:
PZ 4336/1935 'Travellers: Professor Nicholas Roerich; Roerich Pact.'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the accession of the United Kingdom to the Roerich Pact for the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments (1935). Correspondents featured include the Secretary for State fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1935-15 Sep 1936
Extent:
1 file (57 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/1505

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1505
Title:
Coll 1/67 'Aden. Changes in administration in the event of separation from India: miscellaneous questions'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, memoranda and reports regarding administrative changes to be made upon the transfer of Aden from the Government of India to the Colonial Office. The file consists primarily of correspondence between: the Aden Chief Commissioner (Bernard Reilly); the India Office...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jun 1936-15 Nov 1937
Extent:
1 file (384 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/1981

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1981
Title:
Coll 5/31 ‘Air Route to India: Prohibition of private flights along the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and notes on the subject of private (or chartered) flights through the Persian Gulf states in special treaty relations with the British Government, these states being: Bahrain, Kuwait (also spelt Koweit), Muscat (Oman), and Sharjah. Prior to 1946, the corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
14 Jun 1933-3 Dec 1948
Extent:
1 file (622 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2047

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2047
Title:
Coll 5/84(2) ‘Chicago Agreement: Position of Persian Gulf Sheikhdoms with regard to post war Civil Aviation; International Civil Aviation Organisation Meeting in Cairo 1946. Tandy's Deputation.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers related to the position of the Gulf States – Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Bahrain, Dubai, Kalba, Kuwait, Ra's al-Khaymah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Qaywayn – under the Convention on International Civil Aviation (1946), also known as the Chicago Convention. Much of the correspondence is c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1945-20 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (431 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3304

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3304
Title:
Coll 25/1 'Orders in Council: Koweit; Reports on working of'
Scope & Content:
Short annual reports on the workings of the Kuwait Order-in-Council 1925 and 1935 for the years 1930-1947. The reports contain information on the civil and criminal cases tried and the numbers of British subjects and British protected persons registered during each year. The reports were sent b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Mar 1931-20 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (41 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/3317

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3317
Title:
Coll 25/14 'Orders in Council: Koweit: New Order'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence (copies, drafts, and originals), memoranda, and notes concerning the drafting and issuing of The Kuwait Order in Council, 1935. The papers deal with the discussion of the need for a new order in council because of the growth of the oil industry and the likely increase of foreigner...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jul 1932-11 Sep 1947
Extent:
1 file (263 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/3318

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3318
Title:
Coll 25/14(1) 'Orders-in-Council: Special Police Officers Regulations Koweit 1948'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to the need for and issuing of 'The Special Police Officers regulation, 1947', under the articles of The Kuwait Order in Council, 1935. The regulation gave the Political Agent in Kuwait the power to appoint special police officers to deal with incidents involving those su...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1948-30 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)