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'File 8/4 I Interdicts: Import of Opium into Bahrain' [‎17r] (39/461)

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The record is made up of 1 file (232 folios). It was created in 15 Sep 1926-27 Feb 1939. 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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suggestion that Nepal should render returns, or submit estir
mates. In fact, I gather from the correspondence that
Nepal is an independent sovereign State; that she has not
ratified any of the Conventions, and that you, or the
Government of India, are averse from her having any direct
relations with the League of Nations* If she is not to haves
such relations she cannot ratify the Conventions, and cannot,
I imagine, make any returns, or submit estimates. It there
fore seems that the true position of this State is that of
a Non-Convention Country, and it seems to me that probably
the best solution in these circumstances is for Nepal to be
regarded as a Non-Convention Country, and for the Supervisory
Body to insert in their Tables an estimate of the drugs
required.
With regard to Bahrain, the position seems tobe much
the same as in Nepal. After some correspondence with 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. (See P 3537 of 1923, and P 2880 of 1924) it was
recognised that there were difficulties in the way of intro
ducing a regular import certificate procedure, and it was
decided that the most natural and satisfactory Licensing Autho
rity would be the British Political Officer stationed there,
but you pointed out that any claim that the British Political
Officer should be recognised for international purposes as
exercising any power in this matter, would give rise to diffi
culties. We have accordingly issued licences for the ex. ort
of drugs to Bahrain, on ceitificates issued by the Political
^ that
Agent toX the effect/there was M no obJeBtion 1 * to the import.
A copy of eachlicence is regularly sent to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
1* I but, as in the case of the Envoy at Nepal, he does not appear
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f- to return them. So far as 1 can trace, no suggestion has ever
been made that Bahrain should make any returns, or submit
estimates to the League, and I think it is certain that they
have not, up to the present, done so, nor has anyone else done
it for them. Their position seems the re fore, to be exactly.

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Correspondence concerning the import of opium and other dangerous drugs into Bahrain. The file contains correspondence from 1936 to 1938 between 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. , the Permanent Central Opium Board and the British 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. in Bahrain concerning the treatment of Bahrain vis-à-vis the League of Nations' Drugs Limitation Convention of 1931. Much of the rest of the file concerns the gathering of quarterly and annual statistical information on the import of dangerous drugs for the Permanent Central Opium Board from Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO); Customs House, Bahrain; the Arabian Mission Hospital, Bahrain; the State Medical Officer, Bahrain; and the Quarantine Medical Officer, Bahrain.

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Foliation: This file has circled foliation numbers that run from the front cover and end on the back cover.

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