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I The Political Agency
Baiirain.
Persian Gulf.
6/6/&Z6
The Secretary to the Hon'ble the Political n esident
in the Persian Gulf .Bushire,
Memo r and un.
With reference to your Memo. No 1359 of 23rd -^ay
I&26. The plot of land which has "been exchanged with the
Bahrain Governmmnt is no part of the original site on which the
Agency was "built k which was the land referred to in the
Assistant "olitical Agent's letter No 120 of 29th July 1901.
The plot exchanged ws a piece of waste land outside the Agency
but adjacent to it on the V /tst side. This plot was gifted to
the Agency either in the time Colonel Trevor (the Major Trevor)
was in Bahrain or sometime later during the war,I regret I am
unable to. trace exactly when. Colonel Trevor himself drew my
attention to it olt was originally acquired as there was at the
time a proposal to build quarters for clerics a proposal v/hich jz
was subsequently ab-mdoncfld on ancount of the expense involved,
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The plot has consequently never been used.It has been
exchanged for a plot precisely similar adjoining the Agency on
the -^ast side. Colonel Trevor originally approved of the paxKhx
purckkse of the plot on the -^ast side if funds could be found
for the purpose,!: subsequently Colonel ^rideaux when in Bahrain
confirmed his approval^ The matter remained in abeyance as I ta
had no suggestions as to how payment could be effected lc at the
time there seemed no grounds for an excahnge, later the Govt,
of Batrain State were anxious to acquire a site to build State
offices upon & also the Municipality of Manameh wished to
complete the sea-front scheme,!: the only possible place where i.
the sea front road could enter the Town was on the plot
belonging to the Agency to the Vvest.Shaik Hamad requested KXtkK
either that the State be permitted to purchase the plot or to