This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 6 dated 2 January 1857. The enclosures are dated 6 November-30 December 1856. The primary correspondents are: Commander Felix Jones, Indian N...
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary, Political Department
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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...