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'File 29/33 PRICE CONTROL' [35r] (69/152)
The record is made up of 1 file (74 folios). It was created in 3 Oct 1945-26 May 1948. 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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ORD 'jR No . 7 OF 1947 .
in exercise of the powers conferred on meSJpy Article 4
of King’s Regulation No.l of 1947; and in cancellation of all
orders issued under Article 4 of Regulation No.2 of 1939 and
Article 4 of Regulation No.l of 1940, under the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
States (Rmergencv) Order-in-Council, 1939, I hereby order that:
Article 1. This Order nay be .gited as the Price and Export
Control Order'No.1/of 1947 and shall come into
operation forthwith.•
Ar ticle 2 . For the purpose of Articles 3, 4 and 5 of this y
Order, the Director of'Customs of the Bahrain
Government shall be the price Controller.
Article 3 . (a) RATIONE D FOODSTUFFS .
The foodstuffs recorded in Schedule 1 which
may be imported into Bahrain by the Bahrain
Government with the assistance of His Majesty’s
Government and/or the Government of India, shall
be distributed to authorised retailers within
the territories of His Highness the Shaikh of
Bahrain. Such retailers shall sell these food
stuffs to authorised holders of ration cards, to
the extent allowed by, and at the price fixed
from tine to time by the price Controller.
(b) Mhen assessing the retail price of rationed
foodstuffs referred to in Article 3(a) above, a
profit of 3% and shall be allowed to the
retailers of Manamah and Muharraq respectively.
Article 4 . UNRA MTONS P FOODSTUFFS & OTHER COMNDDIT TSS.
Prices shall be fixed as follows
(a) Nho^esalers,shall sell the commodities
listed in Schedule II to retailers at a profit
of 15/ calculated on the invoice price.
Retailers shall sell to the public at a profit
of 5/ on the cost .to the retailer.
(b) On the articles listed in Schedule m >
wholesalers may make the profit noted against
each article.
(c) On the articles listed in Schedule IV the
price shall be fixed by the Bahrain Food Com
mittee. The said Committee shall meet at least
once a month to consider alterations in the
control prices.
(d) Every wholesaler of the commodities listed
in Schedule II and III shall maintain a register
in the form attached, giving details of all such
commodities held or imported by him and of every
sale made by him to retailers, or, in the case of
tyres, tubes or electric batteries, to the public.
(e) No wholesaler shall refuse to sell stoex to a
retailer at the price fixed by the Price Controller.
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(f) A notice shall be displayed by the retailers
in their shops notifying the public of the retail
prices fixed by the price Controller.
(g) no retailer having a stock of any article or
commodity iV Schedule II, Ilf and IV shall
/refuse....
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The file contains correspondence about fixing profit rates on several goods including wheat, dates, sugar, rice, spare parts, watches and typewriters, as well as the relaxation of price controls on commodities usually classified as luxury goods, such as cigarettes, toiletries and medicines. Most of these goods are described as imports from India, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, to Manama and Muharraq in Bahrain. The file also contains complaint letters from both the Singer Sewing Machine Company in Baghdad and Electric & Musical Industries Limited in England, regarding the adverse effect of Bahrain price controls on their profit margins. Also included in the file are the minutes of two meetings of the Bahrain Government's Food Control Committee about the removal of price controls and export restrictions, as well as new and amending Price and Export Control Orders for Bahrain in 1946 and 1947, drafted 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. . Most of the file correspondence is between 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 and the Director of Customs and Port Officer for Bahrain (also acting in his dual capacity as Food Controller).
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- 1 file (74 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Folios 63-75 are file notes.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 76; 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 2-29; 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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- IOR/R/15/2/794
- Title
- 'File 29/33 PRICE CONTROL'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 3r:5v, 8v:9v, 11r:15v, 21r:21v, 24r:24v, 26r:27v, 29r:29v, 31r:32v, 34r:40v, 45r:52v, 56r:57v, 61r:61v, 63r:75v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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