Author
customs house officials before British-instigated reforms
Publication Date
30 Jul 1921-12 Nov 1931 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
111
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/R/15/2/123
Record ID
vdc_100000000193.0x00035a
Library Location
British Library:
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
Records and
Private Papers
Documents collected in a private capacity.
Date
30 Jul 1921-12 Nov 1931 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
The volume contains correspondence on a range of issues related to the running and organisation of the Bahrain customs house. They cover allegations of mismanagement and embezzlement by customs house officials before British-instigated reforms, made by an anonymous 'well wisher of the British Empire' (ff 2-3); construction of new customs house facilities (warehouses, pier, rail system); applications for bonded stock storage (for 100,000 cases of kerosene oil) from the Standard Oil Company of New York (f.6); statistics on tea exports to Persia (f 69); landing rates of different goods (ff 31, 35, 37-38); the problem of smuggling between Bahrain (and the wider Arab coast) and Persia (ff 80-81).
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Düzenleme
The correspondence in the volume appears to have been arranged on an ad-hoc basis. An attempt at chronological order has been made, with the majority of correspondence running from the earliest piece at the beginning of the volume to the last piece at the back. However, there are numerous exceptions to this rule, possibly as a result of
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
staff trying to collate correspondence by topic rather than by order of receipt or despatch.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)
Confidential Files: 8/4
