Primary audit on the return of coal recovered and expended on board the steam frigate Auckland between 8 July 1850 and 21 May 1851, with the explanation of the Officer commanding the Auckland annexed, with reference to his return of coal at Muscat from 1 September to 31 December 1851
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Audit of coal, drawn up in response to a discrepancy of 10 tonnes being noted, where 80 tonnes of coal were loaded from the depot at Muscat, but only 70 tonnes brought to account on the Auckland's arrival in Bushire. The Commanding Officer of the Auckland states that the discrepancy can be accoun...
Letter no.5746 of 1851 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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A circular memo with instructions on how best to protect paper records from damage by insects. Malet states that boxes should be sponged with a strong solution of copper sulphate in water, and that they should be lined with common brown paper saturated in the same solution.
Letter no.1 of 1851 from Lt James Tronson, Honourable Company's brig Euphrates, to Commodore J. P. Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf
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Tronson reports of his arrival at the island of Inderabia [Jazīreh-ye Hendorābī] and his meeting with Sheikh Abdool Ruzzack ['Abd al-Razzāq], to which he gave two letters from the Resident (see f 33 for one of the two letters). He also describes a shipwrecked bugla [boat] on the island. Tronson w...
Letter (No. 362 Cons No. 74 of 1852) from Captain Arthur Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government, Political Department, Bombay
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The letter is informing the Bombay Government that Lieutenant Herbert Frederick Disbrowe arrived at Bushire on 18 October 1852 aboard the steam frigate Queen, and has taken up his appointment as Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf.
Letter no.5760 of 1852 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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Malet writes to ask Kemball to call upon Sheikh Sultan ben Suggar [Sultan bin Saqr], to enquire how he has disposed of the 500 crowns already received for indemnity payments, and to whom the remaining one hundred crowns should be paid out to.
Letter no.331 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
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Letter enclosing a copy of a letter with its enclosures sent to Lieutenant Tronson of the Company Brigantine Tigris, relating to acts of aggression between pearling vessels owned by the Sheikhs of Dubai and Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi]. Kemball writes that, with the Government's permission, he will wa...
Letter no.39 of 1852 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government Bombay
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Hennell draws Malet's attention to the fact that the slave trade suppression treaty, entered into by the British Government and the late Sheikh Syf ben Humood of Sohar [Suhar] in 1849, is not included in the British Parliament's Slave Trade Act of that year.
Letter no.3964 of 1852, from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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In response to Kemball's earlier letter (f 279), Malet confirms the arrival of the two female slaves at Bombay upon the steam frigate Queen. Malet also writes that Kemball's bill of expenses has been passed to the civil auditor.
Letter C from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government Bombay
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Hennell reports on his visit to Muscat where he met His Highness the Imam of Muscat, accompanied by Major Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty's Consul and the Honourable Company's Agent in the dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muscat, and Captain Arnold Kemball, who is due to take over Hennell's dut...
Letter no.26 of 1852 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
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Copy of a covering letter, enclosing for the attention of the Governor in Council, instructions sent to Commodore Porter of the Indian Naval Squadron for the collection of 900 Crowns security from Sheikh Mahomed ben Khuleefa [Muhammad bin Khalifa] ruler of Bahrain, on behalf of the chiefs of Gutt...
