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‘16/23-III Miscellaneous – Payments of Military Pension from the Bahrain Treasury and other Correspondence regarding’ [73v] (146/736)
The record is made up of 1 file (366 folios). It was created in 13 Aug 1938-19 Mar 1945. It was written in English, Persian, Hindi, Punjabi and Tamil. 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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convicted and sentenced to a term of
imprisonment by a criminal court, a copy of the
judgment should in future he forwarded to the
* To C. Cs. only.
C.7 Not to Govts, of
Assam and Orissa,
and C. Cs., Coorg
& Panth Plploda.
% To Dellii also.
5 To N-.VVoF.P,., Sind,
Ajmer-Merwara and (revised instructions may he issued to the
Baluchistan only, \ .
(( )) io u. P. only. criminal courts.) accordingly.
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( ) To Govts, of Assam t
SDrissa; and C. Cs./ ' ... •
Coerg, Fanth-Piploda ' *
and Delhi only. I have the honour to he,
' 1 •* ’J/ ' ; ; Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
•-• r U,G . '^ . -
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Under Secretary to the Government of Indiar 1
No .59/39-Judicial.
Deputy Controller of Military Accounts
(pensions), Lahore,,
2. I am to request that, if
the provincial Government ___
iyou see no objection,
/“the ffligh Court (( and the Chief Court))
y juaiciai commissioner's Court ^
may he moved to issue revised instructions to
the criminal courts subordinate to them J
A copy is forwarded to the
Defence Department (Indian SoIdlers* Board) ,
sixternai Affairs Department, '
for information, in continuation of the Home
Department endorsement No.156/38-Judl., dated the
11th August 1938 * . :
By order,
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Under Secretary to the Government of India.
P3T
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Memoranda, statements, forms and other papers relating to military pension payments made from the Bahrain Treasury. The principal correspondents are: 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. in Bahrain; the Controller (or Deputy Controller) of Military Pension Accounts [CMPA] in the Lahore Cantonment. The file is a direct chronological continuation of ‘Miscellaneous:– Payments of Military Pensions from the Bahrain Treasury and their Correspondence regarding’ (IOR/R/15/2/1519).
Papers in the file include:
- copies of monthly statements (submitted by the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. ) of the names of pensioners transferred from the Bahrain Treasury to other Pension Disbursing Offices, and lists of pensions brought on the Check register of the Bahrain Treasury, for months covering period August 1938 to May 1944. Most statements and lists are marked ‘nil’;
- monthly statements of casualties amongst members of OBI, IOM, VC and MC (Order of British India, Indian Order of Merit, Victoria Cross, Military Cross) on the Pension Establishment in the payment of the Bahrain Treasury. Statements are marked ‘nil’;
- circular memoranda from the CMPA and other Government administrations, concerning various aspects of pension payments, such as procedure, policy, overpayments, fraud, pay increases, cases of Indian military pensioners convicted in criminal courts;
- correspondence relating to checks on the identity of individuals claiming pensions, including depositions made by pensioners and supporting statements (recorded at the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. ) and certificates of verification, issued 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. ;
- papers relating to the transfer of pension payments.
The file also includes: fragments of a pension certificate (ff 131-134) and two complete pension certificates, dated 1933 (ff 283-285) and 1925 (ff 304-305) respectively, the former with an accompanying pension warrant and record of payments (f 286). The pension certificates include terms and conditions printed in English, as well as in a number of other languages used on the Indian subcontinent, including Punjabi, Hindi and Tamil.
An invoice is included in the file, dated 19 May 1932 (f 339), which has no obvious relation to surrounding correspondence, and was presumably included in the file in error.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (366 folios)
- Arrangement
The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (ff 347-367) mirror the chronological arrangement.
- 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 368; 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 2-346; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- English, Persian, Hindi, Punjabi and Tamil in Latin, Arabic and Devanagari script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/2/1520
- Title
- ‘16/23-III Miscellaneous – Payments of Military Pension from the Bahrain Treasury and other Correspondence regarding’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:22v, 24r:26v, 29r:32v, 34r:97v, 99r:102v, 104r:105v, 108r:139v, 141r:146v, 148r:160v, 162r:175v, 177r:201v, 203r:242v, 245r:257v, 259r:260v, 262r:302v, 304r:338v, 340r:367v, 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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