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'File 19/176 VI Bahrain Finances' [‎37r] (73/253)

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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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deueriorata during the coming yaar and that the judges will
thus have the opportunity to maintain their high standard of
fines.
(c) School fees, item 6 (b) of the budget, are shown as
being only ? .4,300 during the year while the expenditure on
education is ^ .2,64,000. These school fees are the only
contribution to /ards non-technical education :>aid by the peoi^le
of Bahrain.
4. Expenditure
There is of course a genercl rise in expenditure which
the Adviser has in my opinion rightly ascribed to increases in
wfr allowances and other causes brought about by the unsettled
state of the world in general. I find little to criticise
outside the State Engineer's Department but I think it right
to draw attention to the amount which the Bahrain Government
is paying for the Special Police. The role of the Special
Police has been described in the Adviser's note which forms
an enclosure to this letter but he h: 1 s in no way stressed the
fact that they should be considered at least in part as a
contribution towards the cost of the v,ar by the government of
Bahrain. It is true that they ar-e en ployed in safeguarding
the principal source of the State*s revenue. It is equally
true that oil is of vital importance and that if His Highness
had taken the line that he was in no way responsible for the
war and that the liability for the guarding of the Hefinery and
Oil Field should therefore devolve on His Majesty 1 s Government
we should have been faced with the un feasant duty of either
forcing the Shaikh to meet3^ this expenditure or Meeting it
ourselves. I think it fair to cons/ider at least half of this
. expenditure as a contribution from the Bahrain Government to
His lajesty's Government for the prosecution of the war.
5. State Kn^ineer's Department .
(a) I still do not understand why the Shaikh Kanad Bridge
/which

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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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