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141. IOR/R/15/5/139

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/139
Title:
‘File 2/4 V ISTIHLAK TAX’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence by the Political Resident, Bushire, to the Political Agent, Kuwait, asking him to remind the Shaikh of Kuwait to prepare a report related to the Istihlak (consumption) tax he paid on the produce of his date gardens in Iraq in 1938 and 1939. The Shaikh wrote back p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1940-12 Feb 1940
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

142. IOR/R/15/5/156

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/156
Title:
[Unnumbered file] Papers in Arabic
Scope & Content:
The file includes three land deeds of the date gardens, all dated 12 February 1909. The first two deeds are between the Shaikh of Kuwait Mubarak al-Sabah and Abdul Wahhab al-Qirtass, on behalf of certain members of al-Zuhair family in Basra Iraq. The third deed is between Shaikh Mubarak and Shafi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
12 Feb 1909
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

143. IOR/R/15/5/208

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/208
Title:
File 4/22 I Construction of a Port in Kuwait Bay under Iraqi Control; Extension of the Iraqi Railway; Umm Qasr
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials in Kuwait, Iraq, Britain and India concerning the political implications and practical logistics regarding a proposal to construct a port under Iraqi control in Kuwaiti territory (and a related proposal to link the port to Basra by rail...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1938-26 Oct 1941
Extent:
1 file (230 folios)

144. IOR/R/15/5/134

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/134
Title:
File 2/2 VII Contraband Questions with Iraq. (Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling)
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Director of Customs and Excise, Basra and the Political Agent, Kuwait, related to a case of a Kuwaiti nakhuda who had been fined by the customs office for smuggling goods from Kuwait. In turn, the Political Agent, Kuwait, passed the case to the Shaikh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1942-1 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

145. IOR/R/15/5/302

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/302
Title:
‘File 7/5 Appointment of Judicial Adviser to the Political Resident’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the appointment of a Judicial Assistant — Summer Hayes (also spelt Haines) — to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf for the purpose of providing relief to subordinate Political Agents in their judicial work. It also contains an incomplete copy (on folios 2-7) of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1948-14 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

146. IOR/R/15/5/304

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/304
Title:
‘File 7/3 Special Police Officers — Appointment’
Scope & Content:
The file contains two letters from F J McLintic, Chief Special Police Officer at Ahmadi, addressed to the Kuwait Political Agent. The letters concern the cancellation of Dudley Preston Lester's appointment as a Special Police Officer, and the appointment of Daniel Dudley Williams. The file contai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1949-15 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

147. IOR/R/15/5/277

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/277
Title:
File 6/3 Survey of Kuwait and Neutral Zone by the Royal Air Force (also by American Navy)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the Political Agent in Kuwait, and British Authorities in London and Iraq regarding the aerial survey of the Neutral Zone that lies between the Kuwaiti-Iraqi and Saudi Arabian borders. Several papers discuss concerns held by Saudi authorities that aerial ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1930-9 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (161 folios)

148. IOR/R/15/5/163

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/163
Title:
File 2/10 Iraq law governing the rights and duties of cultivators
Scope & Content:
This file contains two documents forwarded to the Political Agent in Kuwait regarding the passage of the Iraqi 'Law Governing the Rights and Duties o Cultivators' passed in Iraq in 1933. The documents are a covering letter from the British Embassy in Baghdad that introduces a more extensive comm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1933
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

149. IOR/R/15/5/168

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/168
Title:
File 2/15 Iraq coup d'etat and political situation in Iraq
Scope & Content:
This file contains documents and correspondence relating to the takeover of Iraq by British forces following the coup d'état in Iraq during 1941. The papers discuss the possibility of an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and the domestic political situation in Iraq during and immediately after both the c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Apr 1941-31 Oct 1944
Extent:
1 file (206 folios)

150. IOR/R/15/5/300

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/300
Title:
‘File 7/3 Representations by Foreign Powers on behalf of their Subjects’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with representations made to the Kuwait Political Agency by foreign powers, requesting that the British investigate complaints made by their subjects against the ruling authorities of Kuwait; it should be noted that the nationality of complainants is sometimes disputed. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Apr 1934-21 Apr 1943
Extent:
1 file (94 folios)