IOR/R/15/2/1600

This file concerns court fee stamps (a type of revenue stamp used to pay court fees), issued to the Bahrain Political Agency by the Government of India. Most of the file consists of indents completed by the Treasury Officer at the Political Agency, Bahrain (spelled Bahrein in some of the earlier indents), and invoices received by the Political Agent, mostly for adhesive but also for impressed court fee stamps. The indents and invoices are issued by the Central Stamp Office, Karachi, and, from May 1928 onwards, by the recently established Central Stamp Store, Nasik Road, Nasik.

In addition to indents and invoices, the file includes brief letters of correspondence. The principal correspondents are the following: the Assistant Superintendent of Stamps, Central Stamp Office, Karachi; the Superintendent of Stamps, Central Stamp Office, Karachi; the Master, Security Printing India (who is stated as being the ex-officio Controller of Stamps), Nasik Road; the Deputy Controller of Stamps, Central Stamp Store, Nasik Road (stated in the file as being in immediate charge of the Central Stamp Store, under the Master, Security Printing, in the latter's capacity as Controller of Stamps); the Political Agent, Bahrain.

Subjects discussed in the correspondence include: instructions regarding defective registration envelopes; increases in prices following the establishment of the Central Stamp Store at Nasik Road; the abolition of certain denominations of impressed court fee and non-judicial stamps and the introduction of new ranges; rules for the supply and distribution of stamps, issued by the Government of India's Finance Department (Central Revenues); changes to the manufacturing rates for adhesive court fee stamps; copies of circular letters from the Finance Department regarding amendments to the rules for the supply and distribution of stamps.

Also included in the file are copies of statements, addressed to the Controller of Stamps, showing yearly forecasts of the Political Agent's requirements for court fee and notarial stamps.