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'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [75r] (162/414)
The record is made up of 1 volume (203 folios). It was created in 1946-1947. 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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28. AMERIC a In] CONSULATE .
Mr. Parker T. Hart and Mr. clarence
Mcintosh were U.S. Vice-Consuls at Dhahran at
the beginning of the year under review.
In May Mr. Parker T. Hart left for the
United States on leave and was succeeded in turn
by Mr. William L. Sands and Mr. Walter W. Birge, Jr.
I
in December Mr. Parker T. Hart returned
to Dhahran. Mr. Clarence Mcintosh was Vice-consul
until the end of the year.
The State Department has attached growing
importance to their consular post at Dhahran. In
January Oman (Muscat), Qatar, and the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
were informally included within the district of
Dhahran Consulate and in December Mr. Parker T. Hart
returned to Dhahran as the United States Consul,
- A close and friendly liaison was main
tained between this
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
and the Dhahran Consulate
in all matters of common interest, in January
Mr. Parker T. Hart accompanied Major T. Hickinbotham,
C.l.^., O.3.E., 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.
, Bahrain, on a
tour of the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
. In June and July
Mr. William L. Sands attended as a spectator at the
trial of an American employee of the Bahrain Petroleum
Company who was sentenced to one year's simple
imprisonment by the
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
Courts.
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The volume contains typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1945' [1946] and typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1946' [1947]. The reports are introduced by a review of the year by 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. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and are divided into chapters containing individual reports on each of the agencies, consulates, and other administrative areas that made up the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. . Both reports conclude with a chapter containing 'notes on the working of quarantine on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. '. They are signed by the local British official in charge.
The reports cover the following topics: British and non-British personnel; local affairs; local government and ruling families; transport and communications by land, sea, and air; posts and telegraphs; tribal and political matters; relations with local populations; cinemas; trade and economic matters; agriculture; finance; shipping and commerce; education; police and justice; security; military matters; propaganda; health and quarantine; statistics of temperature and rainfall; water; notable visitors; British interests; oil and oil companies; religious affairs; the pearl industry; locusts; Bedouins; date gardens; electricity; telephones; and related information.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (203 folios)
- Arrangement
There are lists of contents on the first page of both annual reports, on folios 1 and 109.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the third folio after the front cover (the first bearing text) and terminates at 198 on the third folio before the back cover (the last bearing text). The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. Foliation anomaly: ff. 28, 28A. The individual reports that make up the combined annual reports also have their own typescript foliation sequences appearing in the top centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.
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- IOR/R/15/1/720
- Title
- 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:28v, 28ar:28av, 29r:198v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence