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'File 18/68 I (D 114) Kuwait Order in Council' [67r] (148/534)
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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No.E.2406/51/31 foreign Office, S.#.l
11th April hJZZ.
Sir,
In reply lo your letter 5643/1922 of
arc 3rd, 1 aa iirpcted by thp arqueee Curzjn
of . eileston to infora you that he do»8 not desire
to offer any special observations u^on the despatch
o J «nuary loth fro'a His Majesty's High Commiriioner
at c 8 .dad regar ing the proposed Qrier in Council
for ' ow«it except as regards the provision for the
exercire of juripdiction over foreigners.
2. Lord Curzon thinks that while the number
o jrei ners in Koweit who would be affected is
small, as shovm in paragraph 3 of the letter of
December 4th from the Political A.ent at Koweit
to ' ir i J eroy Cox forming one of the enclosures in
the pnrted letter from 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.
to this
department and the Colonial Office of Fetmiary
^2or1 last, V-e issue of an Or ler in Council
containing a provision for Fritish jurisdiction
over such foreigners mi^it be liable to evoke
protents 'rom foreign powers. It might therefore
be well to obtain the formal consent of the United
States, French, Italian, Portuguese and Japanese
Goverments to tae propdsal before ippuir, the
Oner in Council but such representations co Id
h. rdly be aiireased to these governments until the
tieaty of peace with xurkey enters into force
an 1 the nature of the territorial settlement to lie
effected i- the regions in qu stion is settled.
1 am, etc.,
3d/- Lancelot Jliphant.
The Under fecretary of "tate,
Colonial Office.
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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.
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- 1 volume (264 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximately chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
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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.
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- IOR/R/15/1/303
- Title
- 'File 18/68 I (D 114) Kuwait Order in Council'
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- 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
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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