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File 8/9 Annual Report on the State of Bahrain for the year AH 1351 [38r] (80/200)
The record is made up of 1 volume (96 folios). It was created in 3 Jun 1933-27 Jul 1933. 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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Manamah Municipal!ty.
not be done the owners were compensated.
A wide road running east and west from the Government
school to the sea v/as made on the south of the town.
About 25 barasti huts were moved in order to make the
road.
Country Roads , xm arrangement was made by which the
Municipality became responsible for road work and repairs
outside the Municipal area on the main Rafaa road as
far as the end of the date gardens and also the Budeya
road up to JedKafs. This previously v/as done by the
government but as the municipality have a permanent
staff of road men it is more economical for them to do
such work.
A road was made through date gardens running north
and south v/hich links up the Rafaa road and the Budeya
road. Previously the country betv/een these two roads
was inaccessible to motor traffic except on the road
from Suk al Mhamis to Senabis. The cost of this road
was small as it v/as only necessary to make a few bridges
and to level the surface in places.
Aliening of Rafaa road . On the Rafaa road through
the c : ate gardens, there ocurred during the year an
accident in which a taxi collided with a car in which
E. E. Shaikh Hamad v/as driving and overturned it into
the ditch. Fortunately nobody was injured but the
incident enabled the government to carry out the project
of widening the whole road through the gardens which had
been under consideration for some years. An average cf
15 feet in the width has been added to the whole road
from Suk al Khamis to Raddam al Kawari and mainly owing
to the public spirited example set by Shaikh abdullah
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The volume contains the Annual Report of the Government of Bahrain for the Hijri year 1351 AH. The report is written by the Adviser to the Bahrain Government, Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave.
The report was submitted by Belgrave to 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, Percy Gordon Loch, who then forwarded it to the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , at Bushire. The correspondence relating to this process is included in the volume.
The report itself (folios 8-83), submitted in June 1933, is divided into sections corresponding to a particular subject, as follows: Revenue and Expenditure; Pearl Industry; Police and Public Security; Judicial; Land Registrations; Education; Manamah Municipality; Muharraq Municipality; Artesian Wells; Agriculture; Sunni Wakf Department; Shia Wakf Department; Audit; Imperial Airways; Press Propaganda; Counterfeit Coins; Death of Shaikh Sir Isa bin Ali [Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah], accession of Shaikh Hamad bin Isa [Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah]; Bahrain Electric Supply; Customs; General; Miscellaneous.
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- 1 volume (96 folios)
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The volume is arranged chronologically.
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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 98; 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 12-83; these numbers are also written in ink, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- File 8/9 Annual Report on the State of Bahrain for the year AH 1351
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- 6r:83v, 87r:89v
- Author
- Belgrave, Sir Charles Dalrymple
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