File 18/2 'Koweit Customs'

Title:

File 18/2 'Koweit Customs'

Contributor:

Emir of Kuwait (correspondent)
Political Resident, Persian Gulf (correspondent)
Sultan of Najd (correspondent)

Date:

1907/1928

Description:

The file contains correspondence relating to Customs charges and procedures at the Port of Kuwait, Customs co-operation between the Kuwait Customs authorities, the Persian Customs authorities at Bushire and the British Collector of Customs at Basra, and also detailed reports of the negotiations in 1923 between the Ruler of Kuwait and Ibn Saud (the Sultan of Najd) about proposed Najd Customs collection at Kuwait. The majority of the correspondence is between the British Political Agent at Kuwait and the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire. It includes several letters of complaint received from British companies and commercial agents operating in the Persian Gulf, mainly with regard to import and export charges levied on their shipped goods by the Kuwait Customs authorities. The Arabic correspondence in the file consists mainly of an exchange of letters between the Political Agent at Kuwait and the Ruler of Kuwait. There is also a small amount of correspondence in French from the Inspector General of Persian Customs at Bushire to the Secretary to the Political Resident at Bushire, in 1927 and 1928.1 file (203 folios)The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 205; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Two irregular additional foliation sequences are present in parallel; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.Condition: a small amount of text is difficult to read because the edge of the paper is torn (folios 105, 145 and 146).

Language:

English
French
Arabic

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Customs administration

Extent:

1 file (203 folios)

Rights:

Public Domain
Unknown
Creative Commons Non-Commercial Licence
Open Government Licence

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000831.0x0003d0_ar
81055/vdc_100000000831.0x0003d0_en
IOR/R/15/5/53

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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