'File 4/60 I Bahrain Air Navigation Agreement Re Payments.'

Content

The file concerns payments due to the Shaikh of Bahrain (Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah) under the terms of the Bahrain Civil Air Agreement (also referred to in the file as the Air Navigation Agreement). The papers include correspondence from the British Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , Bahrain (enclosing correspondence from the Foreign Office General Department); schedule of sums payable to the Shaikh of Bahrain under the terms of the agreement, for the year ending 31 December 1950 (detailing annual rent of £500; individual payments of £150 for each additional service over and above the first service operating during 1949, for flying boats and land aeroplanes respectively; and total amount due); and letters from the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain to the Manager, Eastern Bank Limited, and to the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), forwarding copies of the preceding schedule, and (in the case of the latter recipient) explaining that the sum involved was paid by means of a credit adjustment to the Bahrain Government account in London.

Extent and format

1 file (7 folios)

Arrangement

The correspondence is arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file, except where enclosures of an earlier date are filed after their relevant covering letter, and terminates with a set of notes on folio 9.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the main foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 9; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

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/15/2/1167

Former external reference(s)

English Office files: 4/60 I

History of this record

Date(s)

21 Feb 1950-8 Mar 1950 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Civil aviation

People & organisations

King of BahrainForeign Office, General Department

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