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The record is made up of 3 folios. It was created in 16 Mar 1855. 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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The letter is a covering letter, enclosing a letter received by Anderson from Major Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty’s Consul and the Honourable Company’s Agent in the dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muscat, dated 9 August 1854 (folios 215-16). In his letter Hamerton writes that the Beni boo Ali tribe, responsible for the plunder of the Fath-el-Khyer , do not come under the jurisdiction of the Imam of Muscat, and that, as far as he is aware, they are not answerable to anyone’s authority but their own. Hamerton adds that he fears that, if the British authorities took punitive action against the Beni boo Ali tribe, this could lead to the murder of the crews of stricken vessels in future, whereas the crews of the Centaur and Fath-el-Khyer , though they lost their cargo, were allowed to escape with their lives.

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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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IOR/R/15/1/143, ff 214-216

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16 Mar 1855 (CE, Gregorian)

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Letter no.1255 of 1855 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/143, ff 214-216, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024051557.0x00002e> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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