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'File 18/55 I (C 101) Bahrain Order in Council' [‎38v] (85/477)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (237 folios). It was created in 22 Mar 1912-5 Oct 1916. 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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70. 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. shall have power to make Regulations (to ba .earlled
King's Regulations) for the following purposes (that is to say) :—
(a.) For the peace, order, and good government of persons to whom this Order
applies in relation to matters not provided ior by this Order.
(b.) For securing the observance of any Treaty for the time being in force,
relating to any place within the limits of this Order; or of any native or local law or
custom, whether relating to trade, commerce, revenue, or any other matter.
(c.) For applying, amending, modifying, or repealing with respect to Bahrein any
Acts or enactments which apply, or are made applicable or have been brought into
operation in Bahrein by or under any of the provisions ot Article 11 ot this Order.
{d.) For regulating or preventing the importation or exportation in British ships
or by any person to whom this Order applies of arms or munitions of war, or any parts
or ingredients thereof, a^nd for giving ettect to any Treaty relating to the rmportatiou or
exportation of the same.
(e.) For requiring Returns to be made of the nature, quantity, and value of
articles exported from or imported into Bahrein, by or on account ot any person to
whom this Order applies or in any British ship, and for prescribimr the times and
manner at or in which, and the persons by whom, such Returns are t) bo made..
(f.) For the governance, visitation, care, and superintendence of prisons.
Any Regulations made under the preceding Article may provide for
forfeiture of any goods, receptacles, or things in reflation to which, or to the contents
of which, any breach is committed of such Regulations, or of any Treaty or any
native or local law or custom, the observance of which is provided lor by such
Regulations.
(2.) Any person to whom this Order applies committing a breach of any such
Regulations* shall, in addition to any forfeiture prescribed thereby, bo liable, on
conviction, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, or to a fine, or
to both.
(J3,) Anv fine imposed for a breach of Regulation shall not exceed 1,500 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. r
provided that in the ease of any breach of any native or local law relating to customs
law, or under which the importation or exportation of any goods is prohibited or
restricted, the fine may extend to a sum equivalent to treble the value of the goods in
relation to which the breach is committed.
7 '2. —(!•) King's Regulations shall not take effect until they are allowed by a
Secretary of State, or, with his previous or subsequent assent, by the Governor-General
of India'in Council: provided that in case of urgency declared in any such Regulations,
the same shall take effect before such allowance, and shall continue to have effect
unless and until they are disallowed by the Secretary of State, or, with his previous or
subsequent assent, by the Governor-General of India in Council, and until notification
of such disallowance is received and published by the Politieal Resident, and such
disallowance shall be without prejudice to anything done or suffered under such
Regulations in the meantime.
(•>.) All King's Regulations shall be published by 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 such
manner and at such places as he may think proper.
(3.) In this Order "breach of the Regulations" includes the breach of any
native or loeal law or custom, the observance of which is required by any King's
Regulations.
73. J udicial notice shall be taken of this Order and of the commencement thereof,
and of the appointment 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. , 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. , and Judicial
Assistant, and of the constitution and limits of the Courts and districts, and of the
seals and signatures, and of any Rules and Regulations made or in force under this
Order, and no proof shall be required of any of such matters.
74. Nothing in this Order shall deprive 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. , or an officer
subordinate to him, of the right to observe, and to enforce the observance of, or shall
deprive any person of the benefit of any reasonable custom existing in Bahrein, unless
this Order contains some express and specific provision incompatible with the
observance thereof.
75. Nothing in this Order shall—
(i.) Affect any power or jurisdiction conferred by, or referred to in, the Act of the
Governor-General of India in Council, entitled the Foreign Jurisdiction and Extra
dition Act, 1879 (Act XXl of 1879), or in the Indian (Foreign Jurdisdiction) Order
in Council, 1902; or

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Papers relating to the drafting, publication and implementation of The Bahrain Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. ( His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1913). Includes papers relating to slave trade jurisdiction in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , February - August 1913; the design of a notarial seal for sealing documents to be used by 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. , Bahrain, January - February 1914; a draft slave trade treaty (including documents in Arabic), March-February 1915; difficulties over the implementation of the Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. , especially in view of the background of hostilities caused by the outbreak of World War One, 1914-1916; the legal powers of the Majlis in Bahrain under the terms of the Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. , May 1915; and fees to be charged under the Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. and the issue of the levying of Khidmah [Arabic 'service' - used to mean a percentage fee on legal cases] by the Sheikh of Bahrain, May 1915 - October 1916.

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1 volume (237 folios)
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The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

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Foliation: the system in use starts at the title page and continues to the third folio from the rear of the volume. The foliation sequence appears in pencil, circled, in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Foliation anomalies: folio 86 is followed by folios 87A and 87B; folio 92 is followed by 93A, 93B and 93C. Folio 102 folds out slightly beyond the edge of the volume. A second sequence, written in pencil (uncircled) runs from folios 2-229, and appears only on those pages that contain text.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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