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File 4673/1919 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf:- Visit to England of the son of the Sheikh of Bahrein + party. General arrangements + proceedings. Incidence of cost.’ [‎57r] (91/494)

The record is made up of 1 item (258 folios). It was created in 20 Feb 1903-9 Jul 1928. 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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Copy of Accountant G^noral, Central Revenues
Political Department, 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. , London.
I have the honour to invite a reference to your letter dated
26-—1922 to the Secretary to Ihe Political Department, India
Office, repardin 0 '* the accounts of Bahrein Mission.
-1-1921 dated 9-9-1920 is not understood as this letter deals with
a different matter and was not addressed to you. The correct
reference may, therefore, he quoted. No supplementary accounts
dated 25-9-1920 appears to have been received in this office
from you.
With regard to the statement in para. 6 of your letter and
in the enclosure ’’A” thereto, that a sum of Rs. 146-2-11 is due to
you, from out of the original account, I may state that as out
of the sum of Rs.147-3-0 advanced hy you for Eission expense?, a
sum of Rs. 127-3-0 was already drawn hy you from the Mission Funds
( vide the iter of £ 15-9-10 on the expenditure side of your
original account), a sum of Rs.20/- only is due to you.
With reyard to the amount of closing balance in your
hands, I would observe that the balance of Rs.4,437-4-2 referred
when this will be done. It is^clenr how the
is nroposed to he transferred to this office
ofi ce without a letter of
au thority

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This part contains correspondence regarding the visit of a Mission (deputation) consisting of ‘Abdullah bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, son of Shaikh Isa of Bahrein [Bahrain], Abdullah’s son Muhammad, Abdullah’s Private Secretary Jasim Cheravi, and a personal servant, to the United Kingdom and Paris in 1919.

It includes correspondence regarding arrangements for the visit, but most of the correspondence relates to expenditure on the visit, including: the question as to how far the Government Hospitality Fund accepts responsibility for the expenses connected with the visit, including the payment of an interpreter; and the adjustment of the account of Major Norman Napier Bray (Political Officer attached to the Bahrein Mission) in connection with the Bahrein Mission.

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 (‘Political, Baghdad’); the Foreign Office; the Treasury; the Government Hospitality Fund, HM Office of Works; Norman Napier Bray; the Government of India Foreign and Political Department; the Secretary to the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. Political Department; Haji Abdul Majid Belshah, of the School of Oriental Studies, London Institution (Interpreter to the Mission from Bahrein); the Accountant General, Bombay; and the Accountant General, (Civil) Baghdad.

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File 4673/1919 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf:- Visit to England of the son of the Sheikh of Bahrein + party. General arrangements + proceedings. Incidence of cost.’ [‎57r] (91/494), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/850/1, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100074780346.0x00007d> [accessed 25 April 2024]

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