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The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 9 Aug 1854. 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 an extract of paragraph 43 from a despatch from the Honourable Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. (folio 292), dated 27 April 1854. The extract relates to how the payment of damages to the victims of acts of piracy in the Gulf should be made. The proposal by Government is to make payments directly to the victims rather than to their chiefs, a decision which Shaikh Sooltan bin Suggar [Sultan bin Saqr] of Shargah has rejected.

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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 291-292

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9 Aug 1854 (CE, Gregorian)

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Letter no.3576 of 1854 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 291-292, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024051557.0x00004b> [accessed 19 April 2024]

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