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'File 19/176 VI Bahrain Finances' [‎32r] (63/253)

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The record is made up of 1 file (125 folios). It was created in 17 Oct 1941-6 Apr 1948. 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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3.
shown on the "Hevenue" side as proceeds of sales of food-stuffs
to the general public. The same figure appears on the
"ifixpenditure" side for the purchase of food supplies. Jhus
it would seem that the Bahrain Government do not intend to
meet the additional expenditure necessitated by the employment
of additional staff to supervise the purchase and distribution
of food supplies by a slight increase in the sale price of
those supplies. In fact they have budgeted for it under
"Customs and Food Control".
This amounts to a subsidy by the Government to the people
and for purposes of assessing exactly how much assistance the
Government is giving to the people it would be better to have
the Food Control expenditure shown as a separate item to the
Customs expenditure.
1. Administration .
(a) Passport Department . The Passport Department is being run
at a loss. This is probably due to the fact that owing to the
restrictions on foreign travel the sale and renewal of Bahrain
Government passports has greatly decreased. At the same time,
the work of x.he Passport Department has increased owing to the
additional services now being run by the British Overseas
Airways Corporation.
( b ) Transport . Bo.26,00© has been budgeted for "Transport 11
(Item (g) of paragraph 2 of the Budget). This sum is used
to keep up a Government garage which mends and services
Bahrain Government transport and municipal transport. The
heading "Transport" is misleading and it should be "Government
Garage" and be budgeted for it under the heading P .W.D. The
municipalities should pay for services carried out by the
Government garage and this income should be shown in the
accounts as revenue^ and if necessary they should have their
grants increased to meet this additional expenditure.
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This file contains Bahrain government budget reports and other detailed financial records for the years 1941 to 1948. The documents in the file include details of goverment revenue and expenditure and discussion related to the size of the allowances received by the Al Khalifa family.

Of note are folios 41 and 42, on which financial details from 1943/44 have been printed on the reverse of two unrelated posters - presumably due to a paper shortage during war time.

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1 file (125 folios)
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File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.

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Previously a bound correspondence file but the sheets have now been unbound and are loose. Foliation in small encircled numbers in pencil in top right corner of recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. . Starts on front cover and continues to last letter page. Folios 41 and 42 are in an envelope. Additional inconsistent system of pagination starts with 3 on f.2. This is partly in larger uncircled numbers and partly in smaller numbers prefaced with 'p.'. Occasional pages also have large encircled numbers in red or blue crayon.

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