‘File 16/23-IV Payment of Military Pensions from Bahrain Treasury and Correspondence relating them’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, statements, forms, lists and other papers relating to the transfer to and from, and payment of military pensions from the Bahrain Treasury. The file is a direct chronological continuation of ‘16/23-III Miscellaneous – Payments of Military Pension from the Bahrain Treasury and oth...
‘File 16/25 Iraq Government Gazette from 7th January, 1945 to’
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Copies of the weekly ‘Iraq Government Gazette, published in Baghdad by the Directorate General of Propaganda of the Ministry of Interior, Government of Iraq. The copies included in the file cover the periods 7 January 1945 to 1 April 1945, and 2 March 1947 to 11 May 1947. The Gazettes include: ...
‘File 16/26 Miscellaneous. Purchase of stores through the Indian Stores Department’
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Correspondence and papers received from the Chief Controller of the Indian Stores Department of the Government of India. These include: a copy of a brochure entitled ‘Indian Stores Department. Its Organisation and Functions’ which includes lists of the classes of stores supplied by the Indian Sto...
‘File 16/27 Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous Assistance to Government Officials’
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Correspondence sent to and from the Political Agency, and dealing with a miscellaneous range of day-to-day matters: arrangements amongst British officials and shipping agents in the Persian Gulf for the delivery, forwarding and receipt of letters, packages, furniture, motor vehicles, and other i...
‘File 16/28 II Miscellaneous assistance given to Persons other than Govt servants for Passages etc’
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Correspondence relating to requests for assistance received at the Political Agency, from individuals not employed by or associated with the British Government. A large proportion of the requests come from Indians employed in Bahrain who, as British subjects, request assistance in various matter...
‘File 16/28A Examinations of the Gulf students in Foreign countries & Scholarships’
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Correspondence, application forms and other papers relating to scholarships and bursaries offered to students from the Persian Gulf by the British Council for the year 1950/51. The principal correspondents are: the Adviser to the Bahrain Government (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave); various represent...
A number of annexures to issues of the Iraq Government Gazette, published between June and July 1931: a treaty for the extradition of offenders between Iraq and Egypt, signed at Cairo on 20 April 1931 (ff 3-4); a treaty of friendship between Iraq and Transjordan [Jordan], signed at Amman on 26 M...
‘File 16/30 Visits of shaikhs, notables and others to Bahrain.’
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Correspondence and other papers relating to the visits of foreign dignitaries (chiefly rulers from the shaikhdoms along the Arab coast of the Gulf) to Bahrain. The majority of the correspondence details the movements of these dignitaries, and their arrival in or departure from Bahrain, as report...
‘File 16/31 Miscellaneous. Eastern Bank New Building– – Correspondence regarding:’
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Two pieces of demi-official correspondence, the first from H Bardon, Manager of The Eastern Bank Limited, Bahrain, dated 30 July 1931, and addressed to the Political Agent at Bahrain (Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior). The letter, along with Prior’s reply which is also dated 30 July 1931, relates t...
‘File No. 16/32 Miscellaneous. Correspondence with the Residency, Bushire.’
Scope & Content:
Routine correspondence exchanged between the Political Agency at Bahrain, and the Persian Gulf Political Residency at Bushire. The file’s principal correspondents include: the Political Agent at Bahrain; the Persian Gulf Political Resident, or Secretary to the Political Resident; representatives...
