ملف ١٨/ ٩ "المباني:- اقتراح بخصوص: تحويل مكان معيشة [؟] الجنود الهنود في البحرين إلى قاعة محكمة للمساعد الهندي إلخ" [و‎‎٧] (١٠٨/١٣)

OoT)y of a Memorandum No. 2595 % dated the 24th November 1924
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from the Hen’hie the Political Resident in the Persian 3
Gulf, Bushire, to the Foreign Secretary to the Government
of India, Nev; Delhi
Additions and alterations to the old
Sepoys* barrack at Bahrain,
The need has long been felt for removing the
Indian Assistant's Court from the lower floor of the
Bahrain Agency House as the swarms of litigants and
witnesses render the courtyard, which is just below the
residential quarters of the Political Agent, noisy or
dirty. The offices are overcrowded and record space is
insufficient. Moreover the Indian Assistant's Court
Room is now required for the Assistant Political Agent,
2 . Temporary arrangements have been made to remove
the Indian Assistant's Court, Office and the Court records
to a building, which has been rented not far from the
Agency. His Excellency Shaikh .Hamad bin 'Isa, while
willing with his usual courtesy, to agree to this arrange:
-ment for a few months in order to assist us in cur
difficulties said that he was not prepared to agree to
the arrangement as a permanent measure because such a
Court should be held in the Agency area for political
reasons. His Excellency is of course Quite correct:
we have no right to have a Court outside the Agency area
and it is undesirable for various reas'ens
propose
I, therefore,^/to convert the old sepoys' barrack
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into three rooms consisting of Court Room 30' x 20 ',
Record Room 20 * x 20 * and Waiting Room 20 ' x 10 *. The
barrack is not required as a barrack as there is no
longer an Indian Infantry Detachment, and it can
conveniently and cheaply be converted into Court Rooms,
though certain improvements will be required to make it
suitable for its new purpose.
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It is proposed at the same time to convert the