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File 4006/1919 Pt 1 ‘Arabia:- Visit of the sons of the Sheikh of Koweit + Amir of Nejd to England.’ [268v] (540/863)
The record is made up of 1 volume (428 folios). It was created in 13 Jul 1919-28 Mar 1924. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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4
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No. 2.
Letter from the Treasury to 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.
, No. 12,052, dated
\bth August, 1902.
The Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury have had before
them your letter (F. 4643) of the 23rd ultimo, relative to the expenses incurred
by the Secretary of State for India in Council on account of the \ isit to t is
country of Indian Princes, delegates, and troops to be present at the Coronation
of His Majesty the King. The Secretary of State now represents that, inas
much as the postponement of the ceremonial has led to additional heavy
expenditure, the Treasury should defray at least a substantial portion of, if not
the whole, cost of entertaining those who had been invited.
My Lords have received this communication with some surprise, as they
had understood that the Government of India were prepared to defray the entire
charge for this service from Indian funds—-a course which would have been in
accordance with all previous precedent.
My Lords, however, now leirn that the matter has been again considered
by His Majesty’s Government, who have come to the conclusion that the repre
sentative visitors from India attending the Coronation should be provided for
in regard to the cost of their entertainment in the same manner as those who
represented the other great dependencies and Colonies of the Empire.
On this ground, therefore, and in view of the strong opinion expressed by
the Secretary of State for India in Council, my Lords will be prepared to ask
Parliament to provide in the estimate for the next financial year the sum
required to repay the whole expense of the service.
My Lords understand that the sum of £86,700 provided for purposes of
entertainment, and the £2,000 already allotted from Imperial funds, have
proved insufficient to meet the expenditure actually incurred. They request
to be furnished with a statement of the actual expenditure at the Secretary of
State’s earliest convenience.
I am, &c.,
(Signed) FRANCIS MOM 7 ATT.
No. 3.
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.
to the Treasury, No. F. 5116, dated
4^A September, 1902.
I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th of
August, No. 12,052, and to express the great gratification with which the
Secretary of State for India in Council has learnt that the Lords of the
Treasury are prepared to exempt Indian revenues from any charges incurred
in this country in connection with the Coronation festivities, by asking Parlia
ment to provide in the estimate for the next financial year the sum required to
defray the cost of entertainment of the representative visitors from India
attending the Coronation, in the same manner as was done in the case of
representatives of other parts of the Empire.
A statement of the actual expenditure will be prepared as soon as possible;
but, as a portion of the expenditure in this country has been met from advances
for which accounts will be rendered in India, it will be necessary to
communicate with the Government of India on the subject.
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The volume contains papers mostly relating to the visit, as state guests, of a deputation (Mission) from Koweit [Kuwait], including Sheikh Ahmad bin Jabar [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], the heir to the Emir of Koweit [Kuwait], and a deputation (Mission) from Najd (Nejd), including Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz ibn Saud [Fayṣal bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd], the son of the Emir of Najd, Ibn Saud, to England, Scotland and Wales in October and November 1919, and of the Koweit Mission to Ireland, and of the Najd Mission to various battlefields in France and Belgium in November and December 1919.
It includes correspondence concerning arrangements for the visit, including criticism by 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. of the arrangements made for the accommodation of the party by the Government Hospitality Fund, HM Office of Works, the perceived unsatisfactory nature of which was reported on in articles in the Daily Graphic and The Times newspapers.
The volume also includes correspondence regarding expenditure incurred in relation to the visits of the Koweit and Najd Missions, of another Mission from Bahrein in 1919, and of a mission sent by Ibn Saud to the Hedjaz in 1920, and the division of the costs of these visits between Indian and Imperial Revenues, and between different British Government departments.
The main correspondents include: 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. ; the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad; the Foreign Office; the Government of India Foreign and Political Department; the Government Hospitality Fund, HM Office of Works; Captain Daniel Vincent McCollum, 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. , Kuwait; the Treasury; and the Colonial Office.
The volume includes the following letters in Arabic: from Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud to King George V, 1 August 1919 (folios 287 to 288); from Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ to King George V, 30 October 1919 (folios 284 to 285); and from Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz ibn Saud to the Secretary of State for India (folios 183 and 162). The file includes English translations of all of these letters, except folio 183.
The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 volume (428 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
The subject 4006 (Arabia:- Visit of the sons of the Sheikh of Koweit + Amir of Nejd to England.) consists of one volume, IOR/L/PS/10/843.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 430; 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 4-427; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- File 4006/1919 Pt 1 ‘Arabia:- Visit of the sons of the Sheikh of Koweit + Amir of Nejd to England.’
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- front, back , spine , edge , head , tail, front-i, 2r:152v, 154v:161v, 166r:182v, 184r:256r, 257r:280v, 283r:283v, 289r:291v, 296r:297v, 303r:303v, 305r:331v, 333r:338v, 340r:340v, 342r:356v, 357v:368v, 369v:375v, 376v:400v, 401v:404v, 405v:429v, back-i
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