IOR/R/15/2/576

The file relates to proposals for, and the drafting of The Trucial States Order in Council, 1950. The file includes correspondence from the Residency Agent, Sharjah; the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Government of India; the Foreign Office; and rulers of the Trucial States (also referred to as the Trucial Coast and Trucial States of Oman) and Bahrain (also referred to as Bahrein).

The papers include:

• correspondence with individual rulers of the Trucial States on the question of their agreement to the legal cession to the British Government of jurisdiction in their territories over British subjects and foreigners, July-August 1945;
• papers concerning the preparation by the Government of India of a draft version of the Order in Council based on the Qatar Order in Council, 1939, November-December 1945;
• papers relating to the status of Persians domiciled on the Trucial Coast, May 1946;
• papers relating to a request by the United States Consul, Saudi Arabia for details of the treaties and agreements that underlay the British Government's claim to be entitled to hold jurisdiction within the territories of the Trucial States, June-September 1947;
• correspondence concerning the rejection by Sheikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah, the Ruler of Bahrain of a proposal by Cornelius James Pelly, the Political Agent, Bahrain that prisoners sentenced for offences within the Trucial States be allowed to serve their sentences in the Bahrain Government gaol, July-August 1948;
• papers concerning amendments to the final draft of the Trucial States Order in Council, 1950, October 1950.