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9581. IOR/R/15/2/1385

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1385
Title:
‘File 12/15 Proposal for building a slipway and workshop at Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises two sets of correspondence relating to the provision of dock facilities at Bahrain. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Crawshaw Galloway); the Political Agent at Bahrain (Cornelius James Pelly; Li...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 May 1945-10 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

9582. IOR/R/15/2/1593

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1593
Title:
‘16/85 Compensation Cases. Labour employed by local firms.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, statements and other papers (some in Arabic) relating to compensation payments for the death of, or injuries sustained by, crew members of vessels while at Ra’s al Mish‘āb (spelt at Ras El Mishaab and Ras-el-Mishab in the file) in Saudi Arabia. The papers document the following: ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Feb 1950-8 Mar 1950
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

9583. IOR/R/15/2/1600

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1600
Title:
File 17/4 I Court Fee and service Stamps
Scope & Content:
This file concerns court fee stamps (a type of revenue stamp used to pay court fees), issued to the Bahrain Political Agency by the Government of India. Most of the file consists of indents completed by the Treasury Officer at the Political Agency, Bahrain (spelled Bahrein in some of the earlier...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 May 1926-8 May 1945
Extent:
1 file (289 folios)

9584. IOR/R/15/5/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/2
Title:
‘I/10. Confidential papers re Agency staff.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers, including confidential notes, relating to staff at the Political Agency in Kuwait (including the News Agent, Assistant Surgeon, and Head Clerk). Many of the papers relate to the recruitment, departure, and transfer of staff between British offices in the Persian Gulf, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Sep 1904-14 Nov 1928
Extent:
1 file (215 folios)

9585. IOR/R/15/5/49

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/49
Title:
File 13/10 Arms facilities for Shaikh Mubarak
Scope & Content:
The file discusses the Ruler of Kuwait's wish to import arms to maintain his territorial power by land. The file contains correspondence, permits to export arms and ammunition from Muscat to Kuwait, invoices and receipts for articles - mainly machine guns, other arms, accessories and ammunition...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 May 1910-26 Sep 1917
Extent:
1 file (323 folios)

9586. IOR/R/15/5/115

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/115
Title:
‘1/1 Volume VII Kuwait-Saudi Relations’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers concerning negotiations finalising and ratifying trade, ‘Friendship and Neighbourly Relations’ (referred to in previous correspondence on the subject as Bon Voisinage) and extradition treaties between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The volume is a direct chronological continu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Nov 1939-16 Feb 1948
Extent:

2 volumes (291 folios)

9587. IOR/R/15/5/117

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/117
Title:
‘I. Saudiyeh. (3). Saudiyeh State Prisoners.’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the reported murder of Ibn Hithlain [Nāyif bin Ḥithlayn] of the ’Ajmān tribe, and Ibn Lami of the Mutair [Muṭayr] tribe, and others, at the orders of the King of Saudi Arabia Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd)], at Hoffuf [Al Hufūf]. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1933-2 Mar 1934
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

9588. IOR/R/15/5/146

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/146
Title:
File 2/5 VII SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, in southern Iraq. In particular, the correspondence concerns the service of judicial documents emanating from the Iraqi Government on the Shaikh of Kuwait in connection with his...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Jun 1932-15 Jul 1936
Extent:
1 volume (243 folios)

9589. 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)

9590. IOR/R/15/5/318

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/318
Title:
File 13/9 'Employment of Foreigners in Kuwait Government (Refugee Labour)'
Scope & Content:
The file contains Kuwait Political Agency papers relating to the employment of foreigners in Kuwait. It largely consists of correspondence between the Political Agent, Kuwait, and the Political Resident, Persian Gulf Residency, Bahrain. It also includes: correspondence between the Political Ag...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
9 Oct 1945-11 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (136 folios)

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