This part contains interdepartmental correspondence discussing the need for the overhauling of lighthouses and lightships in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence discusses arrangements for a tour of inspection, as well as the more general issue of financing lighting and buoying in the Gulf. Not...
‘Copy of Map showing Territories adjacent to the Frontier’
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A copy of a large-scale map of Persia, referred to in an agreement between the British and Persian Governments of 27 December 1895. Notes on the map indicate three boundary lines: a red and green solid frontier line, as drawn by Major Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St John in 1872; a dotted blue line...
The volume discusses the work of British political and naval authorities in the Persian Gulf in suppressing the trafficking arms and ammunition, particularly from Muscat to Koweit [Kuwait]. Included are reports of searches undertaken on vessels suspected of trafficking of arms, including invento...
This volume contains papers concerning the situation at Sur in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. The papers mainly relate to ‘difficulties’ which had arisen between the tribes of Sur and the Government of Muscat, inter-tribal and inter-factional rivalries, the question of what action the British...
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 61 of 1869, dated 24 February 1869, including an abstract and enclosures numbered 3-17, dated 24 December 1868-17 February 1869. The enclosures chiefly comprise correspondence between the Secretary...
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 80 of 1869, dated 13 March 1869, including an abstract and enclosures numbered 3-5, dated 9-22 February 1869. The enclosures comprise letters from the Secretary to the Government of Bombay to the S...
Despatch from the Government of Bombay, Political Department, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 5 of 1870, dated 26 March 1870, including an abstract of contents and enclosures dated 15 December 1869-10 February 1870. The enclosures concern British actions in relation to alleged Persian [I...
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 15 of 1840, dated 31 March 1840. The enclosures are numbered 3-93 and are dated 18 September 1839 to 31 March 1840. The papers relate to Bagdad...
This part of the volume consists of Enclosures to a Despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 72 of 1841, dated 1 September 1841. The enclosures are dated 30 March to 1 September 1841, and mostly relate to Scinde [Sindh, also spelled Sinde]. The en...
Enclosure nos. 2-15 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 1 October 1844. The enclosures are dated 16 July-27 September 1844. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to the pay, deployment and appointment of military and naval person...
