'File 6/14 I Director of Customs, Bahrain; Trust Fund with Eastern Bank Ltd Bombay' [‎11v] (22/484)

Content

The file consists of correspondence connected to a trust fund established for the Director of Customs in Bahrain (Claud Cranbrook Lewis de Grenier). The majority of the papers are receipts, covering letters, and letters of acknowledgement relating to payments made into the trust fund by the Government of Bahrain. This correspondence is between the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain, 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. , Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), and the Eastern Bank in London, where the trust fund account was held. Details of a similar trust fund held for the Financial Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Belgrave) are also included as payments were made simultaneously.

Some of the papers cover the matter of where the beneficiaries chose to invest some of the fund, for example in the British Government's War Loan.

Folios 240-241 are internal office notes.

Extent and format

1 file (240 folios)

Arrangement

The file is arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of 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 242; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at 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 2-234; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

Written in

English in Latin script

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