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1. IOR/R/15/5/293-307

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/293-307
Title:
File 7: Judicial
Scope & Content:
The Judicial Files relate to the judicial functions of the Kuwait Political Agency over British Protected Persons, as defined by the Kuwait Order in Council. IOR/R/15/1/294-297 are concerned with the drafting of the original (1925) Order in Council, and subsequent reissues in 1935 and 1949; thes...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1919-14 Dec 1949
Extent:
15 files (1175 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/5/305

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/305
Title:
‘File 7/7 Admission of Suits against the Ruling Chiefs’
Scope & Content:
The file consists largely of correspondence between the Kuwait Political Agent (Gordon Noel Jackson) and the Persian Gulf Political Resident (Sir William Rupert Hay). The subject matter is a dispute between Dr Akopiantz and the Shaikh of Kuwait [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ]; the former is clai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1949-23 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/5/306

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/306
Title:
‘File C 7/8 Serving of Writs on Americans’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a request sent to the Political Agency by Clifton P English, United States Consul at Basra, asking the Political Agent to serve a writ against Thomas Wallace, an employee of the Kuwait Oil Company. It also contains the Agent's (Herbert George Jakins) reply.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Oct 1949-21 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/5/303

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/303
Title:
‘File 7/2 I Working of Kuwait in Council, 1949’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence respecting questions arising from the implementation of the Kuwait Order in Council; the main correspondents are the Kuwait Political Agent (Gordon Noel Jackson and Herbert George Jakins) and the Persian Gulf Political Resident (Sir William Rupert Hay). The sort ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1949-20 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (62 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/5/302

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/302
Title:
‘File 7/5 Appointment of Judicial Adviser to the Political Resident’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the appointment of a Judicial Assistant — Summer Hayes (also spelt Haines) — to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf for the purpose of providing relief to subordinate Political Agents in their judicial work. It also contains an incomplete copy (on folios 2-7) of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1948-14 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/5/304

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/304
Title:
‘File 7/3 Special Police Officers — Appointment’
Scope & Content:
The file contains two letters from F J McLintic, Chief Special Police Officer at Ahmadi, addressed to the Kuwait Political Agent. The letters concern the cancellation of Dudley Preston Lester's appointment as a Special Police Officer, and the appointment of Daniel Dudley Williams. The file contai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1949-15 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/5/300

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/300
Title:
‘File 7/3 Representations by Foreign Powers on behalf of their Subjects’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with representations made to the Kuwait Political Agency by foreign powers, requesting that the British investigate complaints made by their subjects against the ruling authorities of Kuwait; it should be noted that the nationality of complainants is sometimes disputed. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Apr 1934-21 Apr 1943
Extent:
1 file (94 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/5/307

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/307
Title:
File C 7/9 Repatriation of persons convicted in Agency Courts in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence sent primarily between the Kuwait Political Agent, the Persian Gulf Political Resident, and officials of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office. It is concerned with how deportations of prisoners from the Gulf States — under the Colonial Prisoners Removal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Sep 1949-30 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/5/298

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/298
Title:
‘File 7/1 (a) Intelligence Report of the Chief Special Police Officer, KOC’
Scope & Content:
The file consists of monthly reports from March to December 1949 by the Chief Special Police Officer at Ahmali (F J McLintic and J H W O'Hare), outlining investigations into criminal offences committed by or against those subject to British jurisdiction as per the Kuwait Order in Council; primar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Apr 1949-18 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (48 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/5/299

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/299
Title:
‘File 7/2 II Service of Summonses, Documents, etc, in Kuwait Vol. 2’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with two extradition requests from the Persian Government for two individuals believed to be residing in Kuwait: Saiyid Abdul Aziz Behbahani and Abdulla Safar. The principal correspondents being the Kuwait Political Agent, the Persian Gulf Political Resident (Gordon Loch), t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jul 1933-14 Nov 1933
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)