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11. IOR/L/PS/12/2764

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2764
Title:
Coll 15/3(1) 'Egypt. Abolition of Capitulations in Montreux Conference and Convention 1937'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, letters, correspondence, memoranda, notes and Parliamentary questions relating to the 1937 Montreux Conference on the abolition of capitulations in Egypt. These capitulations had created extra-territorial jurisdiction for many foreign powers in Egypt, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1936-18 Apr 1939
Extent:
1 volume (606 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/12/2765

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2765
Title:
Coll 15/3(1) (A) 'Actes de la Conférence des Capitulations Montreux, 12 Avril-8 Mai 1937: Compte Rendu des Séances plénières de la Conference et Procès Verbal des Débats de la Commission Générale et de la Commission du Règlement d'organisation judiciaries'
Scope & Content:
This file contains a printed publication in French, published in May 1937. By a letter, dated 16 January 1937, the Royal Egyptian Government invited countries to participate in a conference taking place in Montreux, to discuss the abolition of the capitulations in Egypt. Following a list of me...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Apr 1937-31 May 1937
Extent:
1 file (145 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/12/2766

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2766
Title:
Coll 15/3(2) 'Abolition of Capitulations in - Montreux Conference, 1937.'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to reform of the Egyptian prison system and treatment of European prisoners in Egyptian prisons. The file features the following principal correspondents: the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Viscou...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Oct 1937-18 Jun 1943
Extent:
1 file (67 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/12/3429

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3429
Title:
Coll 28/32 ‘Persia; Foreigners in; Expropriation by Persian municipalities of property of foreigners.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the expropriation of property belonging to foreigners in Persia [Iran] by the Persian Government. The papers chiefly concern a set of silk cocoon drying sheds and storage facilities belonging to a Greek subject in Resht [Rasht], which were demolished by the town’s munic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1931-17 Jan 1935
Extent:
1 file (36 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/12/3476

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3476
Title:
Coll 28/72 ‘Persia. Telegraph stations at Jask; Question of Persian encroachments and realignment of boundary.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between the British Legation in Tehran, including HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and the Foreign Office, including the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, John Allsebrook Simon. The correspondence concerns questions over the extent of the conc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Jun 1932-7 Jun 1935
Extent:
1 file (108 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/12/3941

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3941
Title:
Coll 30/201 ‘Persian Gulf. Judicial. Service of documents upon British subjects in Bahrein Islands.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the service of petitions of alimony and divorce upon British subjects in Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein in the file). The papers include correspondence, dated 1940, regarding an enquiry from the High Commissioner for Canada about the procedure in effecting s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1940-4 Sep 1947
Extent:

1 file (36 folios)

17. IOR/L/PS/12/3956

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3956
Title:
Coll 30/213 'U.S. Desire to Establish Consulate at Bahrein.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns a request from the Government of the United States of America (US, USA) to the British Government in 1943 to be allowed to open a consulate at Bahrain, in view of the construction of additional oil refining facilities at Bahrain, and a consequent increase in the numbers of Amer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Feb 1943-9 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (243 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/18/B15

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B15
Title:
‘Consular jurisdiction in Persia.’
Scope & Content:
Report written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary in the Political Secret Department of the India Office, and dated 14 February 1877. The report, which deals with the question of British consular jurisdiction in Persia and the Persian Gulf, was written in order to close a matter th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
14 Feb 1877
Extent:

18 folios

19. IOR/L/PS/18/B15a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B15a
Title:
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary, Political Department
Scope & Content:
Printed copy of a letter which concerns the question of consular jurisdiction in Persia. Ross, in his capacity as Political Resident at Bushire, gives his opinion on papers he has read which regard consular jurisdiction in Persia: chiefly, the lack of need for a judge of appeal at Bushire, the l...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1876
Extent:

1 folio

20. IOR/L/PS/18/B362

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B362
Title:
Middle East: the Judicial Systems of Mesopotamia and Palestine. Note by Major Marrs on Sir H. Samuel's Despatch No. 157, dated 29th November 1920.
Scope & Content:
A note by Major Robert Marrs, in which the author provides a comparison of the judicial systems in Mesopotamia and Palestine, followed by a number of points regarding jurisdiction over foreigners in those places.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jan 1921
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)