‘Vol 184 1853/54 Commerce; Accounts and General’

Content

The file contains correspondence and other papers related to a number of different subjects. The principal correspondents are Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. . Topics covered by the file include:

• Import duties payable by British subjects on merchandise imported into Persia;
• General trade in Persia;
• The British annexation of Pegu [Bagu, Myanmar];
• The illegal opium trade from the Persian and the Arabians coast into Sind;
• The introduction of trading registers for Arab and Persian vessels at Karāchi.

Extent and format

1 file (44 folios, 13 items)

It is grouped into

Letter no.48 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government of Bombay

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 3-5

Letter no.135 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government of Bombay

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 6-8

Printed copy of the Bombay Government Gazette Extraordinary

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 10-11A

Copy of Letter no.463 of 1852 from The Commissioner in Sind to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Falkland, Governor and President in Council in Bombay

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 11B-14

Copy of letter no.2393 of 1853 from the Secretary to Government, Territorial Department Revenue, to Major Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty’s Consul at Muscat

6 images

Ref: IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 15-17

Letter no.165 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Edward Goldsmid, Secretary to the Government, Bombay

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 18-20

Docket enclosing paragraph 2 of Resolution no.562 passed by Government

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 21-22

Letter no.3015 of 1853 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government of Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 23-29

Letter no.187 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government of Bombay

8 images

Ref: IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 30-33

Letter no.290 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government of Bombay

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 34-35

Letter no.5316 of 1853 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government of Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 36-39

Circular no.4265 of 1854 from the Chief Secretary

2 images

Ref: IOR/R/15/1/137, f 40

Printed circular no.4322 of 1853 from J. G. Lumsden, Secretary to Government, to the Resident in the Persian Gulf

4 images

Ref: IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 41-42

Arrangement

The contents of the file are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest items at the front of the file to the latest at the rear.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: The foliation sequence is written in pencil, in the top-right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 43. Foliation errors: ff 11A-B.

Pagination: There is a pagination sequence, which is written in ink, in the top-right corners of the rectos and the top-left corners of the versos. It runs from 2 to 247 with several gaps in the sequence.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Letter book

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/R/15/1/137

Former external reference(s)

Volume 184

History of this record

Date(s)

8 Jan 1853-14 Dec 1853 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Trade (practice)ShippingOpium trade

Places

PersiaKurracheePeguSind

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