IOR/L/PS/5/273, ff 733-737

Political Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 149 of 1873, dated 25 August 1873, containing enclosures dated from 3 July to 12 August 1873.

The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence concerning the payment of an allowance by the Sultan of Muscat to his relatives Salim [Sālim bin Thuwaynī Āl Bū Sa‘īd] and Abdool Azeez [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd] under the conditions that they reside in British territory and do not interfere in Muscat affairs. The papers also discuss the payment of the Zanzibar subsidy by the British to the Sultan of Muscat.

Principal correspondents include: the Political Resident In the Persian Gulf; the Commissioner in Sind [Sindh]; the Government of India, Foreign Department; and Syed Toorkee bin Saeed bin Sultan [Sayyid Turkī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], the Sultan of Muscat.

A manuscript note by the Political Department, Secret Branch, dated 23 September 1873, suggesting that copies of the papers should be sent to the Foreign Office is found on folio 706.