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File 522/1922 Pt 6 'Persian Gulf: Bahrain: Financial Adviser: Budget' [42r] (94/382)
The record is made up of 1 volume (187 folios). It was created in 1 Sep 1924-11 Sep 1931. 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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xtiis institution being or more recent growth
than the Manama Municipality has less funds avail
able i or its activities. The following works have
InH^i carried out apart from the usual town cleaning.
25 shops were partially demolished in order to
widen roads in the bazaar. The gradual widening of
the streets, though destroying much that is
picturesque, makes the town very much less dangerous
in these days of increasing motor traffic.
13 houses were partially demolished in order
to widen roads in the residential part of the town.
A road from the old shore of the town to the
new Sea-road has been filled iB.
A road,suitable for motor traffic, has been
made from the Sea Road through the town to the plain
on the north of Muharrak which relieves the narrow
bazaar road of much of the previous traffic.
The bay opposite the Customs house, previously
as evil smelling backwater, has been filled in and
the reclaimed ground is now a very valuable site.
Several drains have been made from wells inside
the town down to the sea to carry off surplus water
in which mosquitoes were breeding, four shops and
two offices were built by the Municipality on a
piece of Municipal ground. The roofs of the bazaars
have been repaired in numerous places.
Attention has been paid to house drains and
water shoots which were previously in many cases
insanitary and dangerous to the public health.
The (government gifted a piece of land on the
north of the town as a future municipal garden but
owing to necessity for economy a well has no ^ yot
been bored on it.
The town as a whole is remarkably clean
especially
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Correspondence, minute papers, and memoranda relating to the finances of the Bahrain state. The papers cover a number of matters, including the appointment and retention of Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave as Financial Adviser in Bahrain, annual budgets and reports, and the economic situation in the country more generally. Correspondence is between officials at 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. , Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain, Government of India (Foreign and Political Department), and Belgrave himself.
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The volume is arranged in chronological order from the back to the front.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 183; 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 3-72, and between ff 93-122; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
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- IOR/L/PS/10/1044
- Title
- File 522/1922 Pt 6 'Persian Gulf: Bahrain: Financial Adviser: Budget'
- Pages
- 177r:182v, 160r:160v, 128r:146v, 95r:122v, 86r:87v, 8r:72v
- Author
- Belgrave, Sir Charles Dalrymple
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