File 2908/1907 Pt 2 ‘Bahrain: quarantine arrangements’ [166r] (81/112)
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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and address
The Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Office,
London.
With reference to your letter of the 12th. ultimo
I am directed hy Secretary Sir E. Grey to state that.
as a result of correspondence which has passed between
this Office and the Treasury relative to the Sanitary
Service in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, the Lords Corrmis si oners of
the Treasury have sanctioned the payment from British
Funds of a moiety of the cost - estimated at Three hun
dred and thirty-three Pounds in respect of initial ex
penditure and One hundred and seventy-eight Pounds re
current - of effecting improvements in the existing ^4
quarantine arrangements at Bahrein.
Sir E. Grey is, however, of opinion that neither
in this case nor in the case of the improvements effect
ed in 1907, should the division of the cost he regarded
as a precedent, and that on any future occasion on
which expenditure may he involved in the execution of
The Under Secretary of State,
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.
.
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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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- 1 item (56 folios)
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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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- Title
- File 2908/1907 Pt 2 ‘Bahrain: quarantine arrangements’
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- 126r:147r, 149v:170r, 171v:178r, 179r:181v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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