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'Government of Bahrain Annual Report for Year 1356 (March 1937 - February 1938)' [54r] (21/76)
The record is made up of 1 volume (37 folios). It was created in 1938. 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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15
Public Works
Administration. In the past the Public Works Department has been a
branch of the Land Department, under the supervision of Khan Sahib Mohamed
Khalil, the Superintendent of the Land Department. The Land registration work
as well as public works have increased very considerably during the last few years
and it became necessary to create a separate Public Works Department to deal with
the Government's building programme. Towards the end of the year the Public
Works Department was separated from the Land Department. Mr. A. M. Jaffar,
a retired Assistant Engineer with long service in India, educated partly in England,
at Durham University and Crystal Palace Engineering School, and partly in India,
was appointed as Superintendent, Public Works Department. Buildings which
were in course of construction, such as the Law Courts, were completed under
the previously existing arrangements but new works such as the Muharraq Girls'
School were constructed by the new Department.
Roads and Buildings,
Law Courts. (See illustrations opposite payes 18 d 28)
The new Law Courts, which were opened by His Highness Shaikh Sir
Hamad on 18th October 1937, consist of a handsome building on Government Koad
facing the sea, it is one of the most noticeable buildings on the water front of
Manama. It contains four large court rooms, numerous offices, record rooms and
accomodation for the Wakf Departments and the Minors Department, built on three
sides of a large courtyard which is open to the sky in the centre. Above the rooms
on the north end of the building two flats, in European style, have been built. A
feature of the building is the large permanent platform at the north end of the
courtyard which is used on official occasions. An audience of 500 persons can be
accommodated on chairs in the courtyard and in the covered aisles on each side of it.
On the north, between the front of the building and the road, a garden has
been laid out with a semi-circular sweep giving entry and exit by two gates. On
the south of the building the doors open onto Prior Koad.
The site was the only property owned by the Government on the sea front, it
consisted of a piece of sea with an area of about 48,000 square feet which had to be
reclaimed by stone filling approximately 6 feet deep. The building itself covers an
area of over 10,000 square feet, it has a frontage of 92 feet and is 35 feet high.
The material used is local stone and portland cement.
The cost of the building was more than the amount allocated in the Budget
owing to the construction of the two Hats which were undertaken during the year
and had not been included in the estimate.
Work-shop and Garages. Ks. 6,774. A single story building consisting of
two large garages and a workshop for the Government Transport Department was
built close to the Power House. At this place all Government and Municipal cars
are repaired and dealt with.
Rest House and Police Station. Ps. 10,318. The old Customs House which
became vacant on the completion of the new customs premises has been converted
into a Police Station on the ground lloor and a Government Rest House on the first
floor. The Police Station consists of a large airy room for the accommodation of
prisoners, an office, a room for the Police who are off duty and a cell for any
prisoners who cannot be put in the common lock-up. At the back of the building
there is a small walled-in compound.
Cost of reclamation
Cost of building
Rs. 17,500
65,600
Es. 83,100
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This volume is the Annual Report of the Government of Bahrain for the year 1356 AH (1937-1938) and gives details of the Revenue and Expenditure of the Bahrain State and contains notes on the activities of the various Government departments, as well as the budget for the year 1357 and some particulars of importance which took place in Bahrain during the year. It includes text, photographic images and tables. The report appears to be compiled from reports from various Government departments and officials. An index appears on folio 46r, followed by a General Review by Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the State of Bahrain (folio 47r).
The contents are divided into the following sections and sub-sections:
- Budget – 1356 (folio 47v);
- Summary of Revenue and Expenditure, 1356 (folio 48r);
- Detailed statement of Revenue and Expenditure, 1356 (folio 48v);
- Statement of Expenditure on Public Works and Special Projects (folio 49r);
- Notes on Revenue – 1356 (folio 49v): Oil Royalty, Customs Receipts, Rent of Aerodrome, Passport Fees, Land Registration Fees, Motor Car Taxes, Rent of Government Lands, Interest on Reserves, and Oil Gauging Fees;
- Notes on Expenditure – 1356 (folios 49v-50v): Allowances to the Ruling Family, State Protection, Customs Department, Secretariat, Judicial Department, Land and Public Works Department, Passport Department, Education Department, Municipalities, Medical, Contingencies, Upkeep of buildings, Upkeep and construction of roads, and Unforeseen;
- Statement of Expenditure on Public Works and Special Projects (folio 50v): Hospital, Fire Engine, New Palace, Law Courts, Agriculture, Water Cart, and Manama-Muharraq Bridge;
- Pearl Industry (folios 51)
- Police and Public Security (folios 51v-53r): Strength, Routine and duties, Police Buildings, Recruitment, Health, Police Families' Clinic, Police Band and Fire Bridgade, Registration of Arms and Ammunition, Mounted Section, Good Conduct Pay, Crime, Traffic Control, Liquor, and Persian Immigration;
- Public Health (folio 53): Muharraq Dispensary, Suk al Khamis [Sūq al-Khamīs] Dispensary, Hedd [al-Ḥidd] Dispensary, Women's Clinic, Anti-Malaria Measures, and Government Hospital;
- Land Registration Department (folio 53v): Registration of Sales, Gifts, and Titles, Revenue from Sales etc., and Programme for 1357;
- Public Works (folios 54-57v): Administration, Roads and Buildings, Law Courts, Work-shop and Garages, Rest House and Police Station, Manama Fort, Manama Muharraq Road, Hawar Fort and Pier, Government Hospital, Muharraq Girls' School, Manama Market Buildings, and Roads;
- Judicial Department (folios 57v-60r): Bahrain Court, Transfer of Magistrates, Bahrain Lower Court, New Regulations, Shera Court, Code of Laws, and New Law Courts;
- Municipalities (folios 60r-61v): Manama (Election, Municipal Achievements, Road Improvements, Water Control, Bazaar Improvements, Anti-Malaria Measures, Slaughter House, Adari Spring [‘Ayn ‘Adhārī], and Pier) and Muharraq (Sea Reclamation, Roads, and Anti-Malaria Measures);
- Wakf [Waqf] Department (folios 61v-62r);
- Education (folio 62r): Progress, Technical School, Athletics, Students Abroad, and Girls' Schools;
- General (folios 62v-65r): Annual Audit, New Staff, His Highness' Pilgrimage [hajj], Visit of His Royal Highness Amir Saoud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, Ibn Saud], Cinema, Juma Mosque, Nationality Law, Bus Service, Broadcasting, Press Propaganda, Government Rest House, and Private Building Enterprise;
- Electric Supply Department, report by Mr W B Steele, State Engineer (folios 65r-69r): Wiring Contracts, Temporary Wiring, Main Extension, Alterations to Mains, New Generating Set, Financial Position, Telephone Department, Transport Department, Fire Department, Traffic Section, Municipal Ice Plant, School Engineering Workshop, and General;
- Electric Returns: Profit and Loss Account, Revenue Account, Balance Sheet (folios 69v-70v);
- Statement of Energy generated and sold, etc. (folio 71r);
- Customs Department, report for the year 1356 by the Director of Customs Mr C C L de Grenier (folios 71v-76r);
- Zubara Dispute (folio 76r);
- Budget – 1357 (Feby. 1938-Feby. 1939) (folio 77);
- Notes on Budget – 1357 (folios 78-80).
Illustrations appear on four folios and they are labelled as follows:
- Folio 56: 'Hawar Fort' and 'Hawar Pier';
- Folio 59: 'Law Courts. North Aspect' and 'Law Courts. South Aspects';
- Folio 64: 'Muharraq Girl’s School' and 'Northern Village and Bay, Hawar';
- Folio 68: 'Law Courts, open courtyard and platform' and 'Open Courtyard in the Law Courts'.
An inscription on the front cover reads 'Printed at the Times Press, Basrah' (folio 44r).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (37 folios)
- Arrangement
There is an index (folio 46r) which references pages in the report.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: Folios 44-81.
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- Title
- 'Government of Bahrain Annual Report for Year 1356 (March 1937 - February 1938)'
- Pages
- front-a, front-a-i, 45r:80v, back-a-i, back-a
- Author
- Belgrave, Sir Charles Dalrymple
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