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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Kuwait Order in Council

11. IOR/L/PS/12/3330

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3330
Title:
Coll 25/25 'Orders in Council: Kuwait and Bahrain: Celebration of marriages between foreigners by Political Agents at Bahrain and Koweit'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, drafts, and minute papers relating to the drafting and issue of amendments to The Christian Marriage Regulation, 1922, made under the Bahrain Order in Council, 1913. Amendments to the regulation were thought necessary in order to authorise the Political Agent, Bahrain, to marry n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1937-18 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (115 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/12/3341

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3341
Title:
Coll 25/36 'Orders in Council: Revision of Persian Gulf Orders-in-Council'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to the revision of the five Orders in Council in the Persian Gulf: Muscat, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and The Trucial States. The revision was a result of Indian Independence and the transfer of power in the Gulf from the Government of India to HM Government of the United Ki...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Feb 1948-2 Jan 1950
Extent:
1 file (189 folios)

13. IOR/R/15/1/303

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/303
Title:
File 18/68 I (D 114) Kuwait Order in Council
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the composition, drafting and publication of The Kuwait Order in Council, 1925 (His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1925). The volume includes papers relating to initial objections and subsequent agreement on the part of Sheikh Ahmad al-Jabir as-Subah [Sheikh Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Feb 1919-20 Dec 1928
Extent:
1 volume (264 folios)

14. IOR/R/15/1/304

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/304
Title:
File 18/68 II (D 115) Kuwait Order in Council
Scope & Content:
The volume includes papers relating to the implications of the assumption by the British Government of jurisdiction over foreigners in Kuwait, especially in view of the possibility of the influx of large numbers of non-Muslim foreigners (particularly Americans) to work in the Kuwaiti oil industry...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1932-8 Jul 1935
Extent:
1 volume (275 folios)

15. IOR/R/15/1/308

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/308
Title:
File 18/110 (B Series 18/12) Annual Report on the Working of the Kuwait Order in Council
Scope & Content:
Annual Reports of the Political Agent, Kuwait to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf on the working of The Kuwait Order in Council, 1925 (later The Kuwait Order in Council, 1935). The Reports cover the period 1 October 1925 (when the Order came into force) to 31 December 1925, and the year...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 May 1926-3 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (29 folios)

16. IOR/R/15/1/311

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/311
Title:
File 18/174 Kuwait Passport Regulations
Scope & Content:
The papers consist of a signed copy of a notice of King's Regulations made under Article 83 of the Koweit Order in Council, 1935, Number 1 of 1947 ('The Koweit Passport Regulation, 1947') dated 25 August 1947, with covering correspondence between the Secretary of State for India and the Political...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Aug 1947-29 Aug 1947
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

17. IOR/R/15/1/313

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/313
Title:
File 18/17 B Series: King's Regulations under the Kuwait Order in Council
Scope & Content:
Notice of King's Regulations under Article 83 of The Kowait Order in Council, 1935: Special Police Officers' Regulations, dated Bahrein, 23 March 1948; and letter from the Commonwealth Relations Office, Downing Street, London to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 18 March 1948, ask...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Mar - 23 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

18. IOR/R/15/5/65

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/65
Title:
XXII/10 Status of Kuwait & Negotiations with Turkey.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the status of Kuwait and the negotiations between Britain and Turkey which led to a treaty in 1913. The discussion in the volume relates to the: the proposed settlement of Kuwait question with Turkis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
14 Feb 1911-7 Dec 1913
Extent:
1 volume (221 folios)

19. IOR/R/15/5/293

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/293
Title:
‘File 7/1 I Kuwait Order-in-Council (Jurisdiction Over Foreigners)’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the introduction of the Kuwait Order in Council (1925) and the subsequent issue of supporting King‘s Regulations by the Persian Gulf Political Resident: The Indian Pilgrim Ships Regulation (1926) and Indian Succession Regulation (1927). It therefore contains drafts pro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1919-15 Aug 1927
Extent:
1 file (195 folios)

20. IOR/R/15/5/294

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/294
Title:
‘File 7/1 II Kuwait Order in Council and Jurisdiction over Foreigners’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the introduction of a new Order in Council to clarify the extent of British jurisdiction over foreigners in Kuwait, prompted by ongoing oil negotiations between Kuwait and the United States. The primary British concern being the removal of the requirement that Britain ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1932-6 Apr 1935
Extent:
1 file (223 folios)