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51. IOR/R/15/2/1961

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1961
Title:
File K/5 Death of Musa ibn `Ali Ghailu Somali
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding compensation for the accidental death of Musa bin Ali Sumali while on duty working for Calendar's Cable and Construction Company, Limited in Bahrain.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jan 1931-1 Jun 1932
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

52. IOR/R/15/2/1933

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1933
Title:
File F/6 'Papers Regarding the Supply of Ice by Municipality to the Agency Staff'
Scope & Content:
This file contains an exchange of letters and documentation between the Manama Municipality and the Political Agency in Bahrain on a dispute arising from the supply of ice to the Municipality during 1935. Subsequent to letters with complaints by the Agency about the Municipality's staff appropria...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1935-26 Aug 1938
Extent:
1 file (86 folios)

53. IOR/R/15/2/1930

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1930
Title:
File F/5 'System of Water Supply'
Scope & Content:
This file contains an exchange of letters between the president of the Manama municipality and the Political agent in Bahrain. The exchange pertains the president's suggestion to introduce a water distribution system for Manama.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1936
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

54. IOR/R/15/2/1835

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1835
Title:
File A/2 V Correspondence regarding slaves who apply for Manumission at Muscat
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to forty-one manumission cases, heard at the Muscat Political Agency. All of the cases included in the file are straightforward in nature. Most of the cases include manumission statements taken down from the slave at the Muscat Agency, which were sent to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1940-30 Dec 1942
Extent:
1 file (342 folios)

55. IOR/R/15/2/1958

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1958
Title:
File J/51 'King's Regulations issued under the Qatar Order in Council'
Scope & Content:
This file contains orders issued by the Political Resident, Persian Gulf, pertaining to the appointment of 'Special Police Officers' in Qatar under the Kings Regulation and Article 83 of the Qatar order in council. The papers refer to the new regulation as the 'The Special Police Officers Regulat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

56. IOR/R/15/2/1908

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1908
Title:
File No. E/16 V. O. Correspondence Regarding Mortgages.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding mortgages in Bahrain, including a request from the Eastern Bank for information about the legal value of a deposit of title deeds. In turn, the Political Agency explains that the deposit of title deeds of immoveable property accompanied by a mortgage de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Jul 1932-20 Sep 1937
Extent:
1 file (32 folios)

57. IOR/R/15/2/1923

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1923
Title:
File F/2 III Miscellaneous correspondence with Manama Municipality
Scope & Content:
This file contains meeting minutes of the governing board of the Manama municipality, and their translations. Covering letters of the meeting follow a set of Arabic and English transcriptions of the meetings which cover a wide variety of municipal and/or administrative concerns. Some letters fro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1935-23 Jun 1937
Extent:
1 file (378 folios)

58. IOR/R/15/2/1839

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1839
Title:
File A/2 (4A II) Slavery: cases received from Muscat for investigation
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to two manumission cases originating with the Political Agency in Muscat. Case number 1 is a straightforward case (folios 6-12) involving a male slave who has absconded to Muscat, and includes a copy of the manumission statement sent by the Muscat Agency t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1946-24 Apr 1947
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

59. IOR/R/15/2/1957

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1957
Title:
File J/47 Orders issued by Political Agent under King's Regulations
Scope & Content:
This file contains orders issued by the Political Agent in Bahrain that regulate trade, customs duties, profit margins, and penalties on infringement of such trade regulations collectively known as the Kings Regulation No. 1. In addition to lists of goods subject to particular regulatory taxes or...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1947-25 Aug 1951
Extent:
1 file (47 folios)

60. IOR/R/15/2/1976

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1976
Title:
File K/22 Acquisition of landed property by foreigners in Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This file is divided into a series of court cases initiated as a result of the enactment of the Bahrain Nationality Law of 1937. Because the law made ownership of immovable property by foreign subjects illegal or difficult, many property owners either sold or claimed disputed property they wished...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 May 1937-23 Jan 1939
Extent:
1 file (221 folios)