File 2908/1907 Pt 2 ‘Bahrain: quarantine arrangements’ [155r] (59/112)
The record is made up of 1 item (56 folios). It was created in 1908-1911. 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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TREASURY CHAMBERS,
5th August 1909.
]M
9
( 29524 )
Sir
I have laid before the Lords Coramissioners of His Males- !
o
ty’s Treasury Mr. Mallet’s letter of the 9th ultimo (24241/09)
and the enclosed copy of a letter from the
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.
further respecting expenditure on the improvement of quaran
tine arrangements at Bahrein.
In reply I am to point out that the reservation attached
to Their Letter of the 17th March last, referred to by Sir
A. Codley, was proposed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey himself, |
and I am to say that in expressing Their agreement therewith.
Their Lordships had no intention of departing from the prac
tice under which approved, expenditure on diplomatic estab
lishments in Persia is at present shared between the British
and Indian Exchequers. The passage in question was intended,
so far as LIy Lords are concerned, to guard against any gen
eral extension of the practice to places like Bahrein, winch,
although situated in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, are not on the Per
sian
^'le Under Secretary of State
foreign Office.
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The item consists of part two of the subject file 2908/1907 Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. : Quarantine. It contains correspondence regarding proposals for improving and financing quarantine arrangements and plague prevention measures at Bahrain.
The main correspondents are as follows: 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 The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Major Percy Zachariah Cox), 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 (Captain Francis Beville Prideaux, later Captain Charles Fraser Mackenzie), officials of the Foreign Office, and officials of the 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. . It also contains input from the Treasury, representatives of the Foreign Department of the Government of India, and Shaikh Esa Bin Ali Al Khalifa [Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah] – Ruler of Bahrain.
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The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear (folio 181) to the front of the part (folio 126).
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- File 2908/1907 Pt 2 ‘Bahrain: quarantine arrangements’
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