IOR/F/4/2416/130518

This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2416/130506. It is the thirteenth in a series of twenty-eight items on the Persian Gulf.

The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Major David Davidson, Commissary General of the Army, Bombay; Captain Elgate Whichelo, Deputy Commissary General, Bombay; Captain George James Duncan Milne, Sub-Assistant Commissary General at Aden; Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden; and Khojah Heskael [Khawājah Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf], Native Agent at Muscat.

The item concerns a claim made by Mahomed bin Salim [Muḥammad bin Sālim], the owner of the vessel Futeh-ool Kheir [Fatḥ al-Khayr. Multiple spellings for this name are present in the item]. Mahomed bin Salim’s claim is for the balance of freight due to him for the conveyance of Government stores to Aden, and the amount of expenses incurred by him in landing the stores at Muscat, where he was detained for several months due to the weather conditions. The Government of Bombay makes enquiries into the details of the voyage made by the Futeh-ool Kheir and of the cargo it transported. The item contains letters and reports submitted by the Government of Bombay Military Board, the Army Commissariat Department at Bombay, the Native Agent at Muscat, and British officials at Aden.

The item contains a table of contents (ff 554-556), and the title page (f 553) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 13’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.