"ملف رقم II/٩ مذكرات معلومات من إدارة الخارجية بخصوص شؤون الخليج الفارسي ومسقط والساحل العربي من الخليج الفارسي. نوفمبر "٠٧ - ديسمبر "٠٨" [و‎‎٤‎٢] (١٣٢/٨٥)

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be reckoned as the third Quarantine Assistant
at Bushire. He explained that at present as a
matter of courtesy and to oblige the Besidency
Surgeon the Assistant Superintendent of Tele
graphs had consented to the Assistant Surgeon
carrying out the inspection of H. M.’s ships
which anchor at Reshire, but, as it was desirable
to regularise this arrangement, he recom
mended that— {a) during times of epidemic
the services of the Assistant Surgeon at Reshire
might be made available for quarantine duties
at the discretion of the Resident in communi
cation with the Assistant Superintendent of
Telegraphs, and that when so employed he
should receive the same remuneration as the
other Assistant Surgeons, viz., grade pay and
an allowance of Rs. 150 a month; and (b) that
at ordinary times he should be responsible to
the Chief Quarantine Officer for the inspec
tion of all ships anchoring at Reshire. For
these duties, which would be light, an allow
ance of Rs. 15 a month was suggested. The
Diiector of the Persian Gulf Section of the
Indo-European Telegraph Department, who
was consulted in the matter, stated that he
saw no objection to Major Cox’s proposals.
132. {Vide para. 93, May 1908.) On
Native dhows at the 7th June, the Poli-
Lingah flying the Ger- tical Resident in the
man flag. Persian Gulf brought
to notice a few cases in which British subjects
were flying the British flag without having
first obtained certificates or having failed to
renew them regularly. Major Cox stated that
these particular cases were being looked into,
and that he had directed the out-agencies to
take steps to remind British subjects within
their jurisdiction of the necessity of close
adherence to the rules regulating the use of the
flag. He had also asked the Senior Naval
Officer, Persian Gulf Division, to arrange for
the subsidised ships, when cruising in those
waters, to take opportunities of examining
the papers of any native craft met with under
the British flag, which were clearly not
Indian, and to see that they were in order.
Major Cox left it to Government to decide
whether action should be taken at an early
date in the matter of the German flag, or
whether it would be better to wait for a time
before taking that step. Major Cox’s letter was
forwarded to the India Office by weekly letter,
and the Secretary of State was informed that,
in the circumstances explained, the Govern
ment of India were of opinion that it would be
better to defer the proposed representation to
the German Government for the present.