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'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1911-1914' [41r] (86/488)
The record is made up of 1 volume (241 folios). It was created in 1912-1915. It was written in English. The original is part of the 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. .
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POLITICAL
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.
FOR 1911.
68
The death roll was heavy for so small a colony.
Dr. W. F. Kay of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company died of cholera at
Deaths. Ahwaz in January 1911.
Mr. N. Ramsay, General Works Manager at Abadan, was invalided on
the 10th June owing to tuberculosis and died on his way home.
Mme. Petrez, wife of Monsieur Petrez, a Belgian Engineer in the em
ploy of the Persian Government, died of cholera on the 29th August.
Mr. F. J. Woolford, an employe of Messrs. Thorneycroft & Co., died of
cholera on the 28th August in the " Anatolis " while lying at Mohammerah.
Mr. F. Anderson, a Swede, one of the crew of the S. S. " Griqua" at
Abadan, died of cholera at Mohammerah at the end of September.
Mr. H. J. Lyle of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company was sent to Karachi
and died in hospital after being treated internally.
Captain Boty, formerly a Belgian officer of the Persian Navy, died at
Ahwaz.
Mirza Hamza, the Shaikh's trusted Basrah Agent, who represented the
Shaikh as Chief of the Muhaisin tribe and who was the husband of the
Shaikh s sister-in-law, died at Bombay while on a visit.
The quarantine cor^trol was in the hands of Assistant Surgeon G. C.
^ . > Eehling until 24th August when Assist-
Quarantlne - ant Surgeon C. H. Lincoln, formerly
stationed at Bandar Abbas, arrived and took over the duties of the post.
Mr. Eehling was temporarily transferred to Ahwaz from 6th September to
13th December.
Affairs ran without friction throughout the year.
It has been determined, after reference to the Chief Quarantine Medical
Officer, that two quarantine guards shall be stationed at the Abadan Oil
Refinery to enable tankers to fill while still in quarantine.
As the Customs, as noted, already have a surveillance post at Abadan
there will be no trouble under this head.
Monsieur George Delcroix officiated as Provincial Director of Customs
until the first week of May when Mon
sieur Zwinne returned from leave.
Monsieur Zwinne before hjs departure had, as noted in my predecessor's
report, made himself very unpopular by the strictness with which he had
interpreted his regulations, and as a result, when it became known that he
was to be again nominated to the post, a movement originated with the object
of preventing his return. The Shaikh telegraphed to Tehran opposing the
appointment and the merchants in the bazaar refused to take delivery of any
goods while there was any possibility of the nomination being persisted in.
His Majesty's Consulate supported this movement by informing the Minister
in Tehran of the complaints against Monsieur Zwinne and acting as an inter
mediary for the Shaikh. This action was taken not in any way against
Monsieur Zwinne, who, though unpopular, had kept on good terms with His
Majesty's representative, but owing to the fact that there seemed to be a
tendency, in fact a very strong tendency, to regard as negligible the rights
of the Shaikh under his
firman
A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’).
as Director-General of Customs to approve
of all such employes before their final appointment.
Owing to the representation of the Minister and the action of the Shaikh
and merchants. Monsieur Zwinne was finally transferred temporarily to
Bandar Abbas and Monsieur Delcroix confirmed at Mohammerah.
At the end of 1910 the question arose of the appointment of a Belgian
official to the Customs at Nasiri to which the Shaikh was greatly opposed,
urging that it was against the terms of his
firman
A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’).
, and would upset his
Arabs, while it in no way benefited him, the fact being that the goods handled
were in transit to Tehran and Ispahan, a source of increased expenditure and
responsibility to himself. The good offices of His Majesty's Legation were
accorded and the matter eventually arranged on the understanding that an
iallowance of 250
Tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
per mensem should be granted to the Shaikh.
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The volume contains Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political 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. for the Year 1911 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1912); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political 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. for the Year 1912 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1913); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political 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. for the Year 1913 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing India, 1914); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political 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. for the Year 1914 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing India, 1915).
The Reports contain reviews by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , and chapters on each of the consulates, agencies, and other administrative districts that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. . The Reports contain information on political developments, territorial divisions, local administration, principal places and tribes, British personnel and appointments, trade and commerce, naval and marine matters, communications, transport, judicial matters, pearl fisheries, the slave trade, arms and ammunition traffic, medical matters and public health, oil, notable visitors and events, meteorological data, and related topics.
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- 1 volume (241 folios)
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There is a list of contents toward the front of each Report.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 2 on the first folio after the front cover, and terminates at 242 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil and enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.
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- 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1911-1914'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:240v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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