IOR/R/15/2/54

This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain; the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire; F H E Townshend, Residency Engineer, Bushire; Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah and his secretary, Saqr bin Muḥammad al-Zayānī; M Shafi, draftsman of Puplic Works Department, Bushire; and ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin Ḥasan al-Gosaibi [al-Quṣaybī].

These correspondence concern acquiring a plot of land from Mubārak bin Aḥmad al-Fārsī to build quarters for clerks at the British Political Agency in Bahrain; details of the inhabitants of that plot of land, referred to as the al-‘arīsh, and compensation for their dispossession; plans for building on the plot of land; and the status of land adjecent to the Agency's land.

Included within this file is a sketch of the land acquired (f. 49) and a compensation certificate with thumb prints and seals of the al-‘arīsh residents (f. 43). The file also includes an envelope entitled 'Rough sketches vide letters post' but the contents are missing.