File 791/1904 Pt 1 'Orders-in-Council: Persian Coast and Islands' [‎189r] (110/357)

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which requires more drastic treatment if it is ever to be
made to work smoothly and efficiently.
The lines on which, in his opinion, this question
should be dealt with are to render the political and
judicial spheres of 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 coincident by putting in force a Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Order
in Council, providing for the exercise of jurisdiction in
all the territories bordering upon the Gulf in which
administrative control is vested in the Resident and
consequently superseding the existing Persian Coasts and
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Islands and Muscat Orders and rendering superfluous the
contemplated separate Order for Bahrein.
Courts should be established wherever officials are to
be found fit to exercise judicial powers and provision
should be made to disestablish or vary them with comparative
ease.
There should be a superior court to be held by the
Resident or by a person specially appointed for the purpose,
to which appeals should lie from the local courts.
The