'File 18/68 I (D 114) Kuwait Order in Council' [‎45r] (104/534)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (264 folios). It was created in 6 Feb 1919-20 Dec 1928. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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Proposed JurisaiGtionai Order in
Council for KCreit.
In L'ay and June 1911 the 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. forwarded
copies of a long correspondence that had "been carried on
"between the Government of India and the British "Resident
in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , suggesting the amendment of the
"Persian Coast and Islands Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. , 190?" so as
to hrins within its scope : jna;umerah with its dependencies
tne coast and Maratime provinces of Persia from Mohammerah
(P,19367/1911) to Owettur, "both inclusive, and the islands of the Persian
Gulf and Gulf of Oman lying within the Persian dominions.
The 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. concurred as to the desirability of those
alterations and asked that if His Majesty's Minister at
Tehran were of the same opinion, the necessary steps shoul
"be taken for the issue of the amending, Order,
It was felt nere, however, that the proposals in
question were inadequate and merely tinkered at a question
that required more drastic treatment, and that the
political and Judicial spheres of 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.
in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. should "be rendered coincident "by
putting into force a Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Order-in-Council provid
ing for the exercise of Jurisdiction in all the territorie
"bordering upon the Gulf in which administrative control
was vested in the Resident, and consequently superseding
the existing Persian Coast and Islands and Muscat Orders
and rendering superfluous the contemplated separate Order
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for Bahrein. Courts should "be established wherever
officials were to "be found fit to exercise Judicial
powers and provision should "be made to vary them with
comparative ease,
2. It was proposed that there should "be a superior
court to "be held by the "Resident or "by a person
specially appointed for the purpose, to which appeals
would lie from the local courts. The law and machinery of
the Order

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Content: Papers relating to the composition, drafting and publication of The Kuwait Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. , 1925 (His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1925). The volume includes papers relating to initial objections and subsequent agreement on the part of Sheikh Ahmad al-Jabir as-Subah [Sheikh Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah], the ruler of Kuwait, to the exercise by the representative of the British Government of jurisdiction over the subjects and protected persons of all non-Muslim foreign governments in Kuwait, including a letter of agreement from the Sheikh written in Arabic, November - December 1925; Rules of Court relating to fees, October 1926; papers relating to the registration of British subjects in Kuwait, November 1925 - December 1926; and papers relating to the regularisation of the position of American missionaries in Kuwait, so that, if the need arose, they would be entitled to British protection, February - December 1928.
Extent and format: 1 volume (264 folios)
Arrangement: The papers are arranged in approximately chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
Physical characteristics: Foliation: the foliation system in use commences on the title page and continues to the last folio that bears any text (seven folios from the end of the volume). The sequence appears written in pencil, enclosed in a circle, in the top right hand recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. Foliation anomalies: folio 1 is followed by folios 1A, 1B and 1C. Folio 186 needs to be folded out in order to be read. A second sequence also appears, again written in pencil in the top right hand corner of most of the folios, but not enclosed within a circle. This appears to start at [3] on folio 4 and continues to 287 on folio 254. This sequence marks all pages bearing text.
Written in: English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script

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Reference: IOR/R/15/1/303
Title: 'File 18/68 I (D 114) Kuwait Order in Council'
Pages: front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:1v, 1ar:1cv, 2r:56v, 57v:130v, 131v:132v, 134r:254v, ii-r:vi-v, back-i
Author: East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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