'File 6/20 Bahrain Country Crafts registered at Customs - Certificates Countersigned by Political Agent'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'File 6/20 Bahrain Country Crafts registered at Customs - Certificates Countersigned by Political Agent'
- Contributor:
- Government of India, Foreign and Political Department (correspondent)
Director of Customs and Port Officer (correspondent)
Persian Gulf Political Residency (correspondent) - Date:
- 1928/1945
- Description:
- The file contains correspondence relating to the registration of boats in Bahrain. The vast majority of the papers are covering letters that were originally sent with registration certificates by the Director of Customs to the Political Agency for counter-signing. The certificates were then returned by the Agency. The certificates were required by all craft intending to leave Bahrain waters. The practice ceased in January 1933.The file also contains some correspondence about the usefulness of the procedure, mostly between the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, and the Government of India (Foreign and Political Department).Towards the back of the file is later correspondence relating to an incident involving the confiscation of registration certificates by Iranian port officials and a request to register a new tug boat from the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO).Folio 189 is internal office notes.1 file (189 folios)The file is arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 191; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-188; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Vessels
- Extent:
- 1 file (189 folios)
- Rights:
- Unknown
Open Government Licence - Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000241.0x000389_ar
81055/vdc_100000000241.0x000389_en
IOR/R/15/2/1234 - Is part of:
- British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers