'File 14/10 Bahrain: Post Office building' [‎114r] (227/332)

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The file contains correspondence regarding the lease of the Post Office and Sub-Postmaster's house in Manamah.

The file includes copies of the 1944 rental agreement, between the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain and the Director General of Posts and Telegraphs at New Delhi (folios 20, 21, 26).

There is further correspondence from the Adviser, notifying that the Post Office was to be vacated and demolished in 1947, to make space for a new building, including a new Post Office; this includes a 'Plan of Proposed Post Office at Manamah, Bahrain', 1946 (folio 29).

There is correspondence on the rent for the new Post Office and a copy of the new lease agreement, signed in 1949 by the Adviser and 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. (folios 124-127).

The supply of equipment for the Post Office from Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) is also subject of the correspondence within the file.

The principal correspondents are: the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain; Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited; Manama Municipality, the Director General of Posts and Telegraphs at New Delhi; the Director of Post and Telegraphs, Sind and Baluchistan Circle, at Karachi; 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 the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; and 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. at Bahrain.

There is a document in Arabic with English translation, a receipt from Manama Municipality for taxes paid for the Post Office.

Extent and format

1 file (165 folios)

Arrangement

The papers in the file are arranged chronologically. There are notes at the end of the file, on folios 146-166. The notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file; they give a brief description of the correspondence with a number in blue and red crayon, which refers back to that correspondence in the file.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 167; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-108; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script

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