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‘Original C.O. [Confidential Office] File Register’ [108r] (217/252)
The record is made up of 1 volume (123 folios). It was created in [1948]. 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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86- EASTERN AND GENERAL SYNDICATE.
File No Sub.iect.
86/l Kuwait Oil
86/2 Bahrain Oil
86/3 Bahrain Petroleum Company Miscellaneous.
86/3 A B.P.C. Miscellaneous.
86/4 Eastern and General syndicate, Qatar.
86/5 Hasa Oil
86/6 Aerial Survey of Bahrain.
86/7 P.C.L.
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
.
86/8 Appointment of C.L.R. Kuwait Oil Company.
86/9 B.P.C. Oil Refinery at Bahrain.
QQy/2.0 011 St\i j^k rv\ q J„ Rsc^joco
86/12 P.C.L. Muscat.
86/13 Kuwait neutral zone.
86/14 Bahrain unallotted Area.
86/15 P.C. L. Red Sea Littoral.
86/16 Levy of Light Dues at Bahrain.
86/18
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
Oil. Activities of Standard
Oil Compfuiy of California.
86/19 Oil Concessions in the Rub-al-Khali.
86/20 P.C.E. request for permission to use aircraft,
86/21 P.C.L.
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
exploration.
86/22 Gwadur Oil
86/24 Destination of B.P.C Oil Shipments.
86/25 P.C.L, Miscellaneous.
86/28- Kuwait Sulphur
86/30 tireless communication with Bahrain and
Saudi Arabia.
86/31 Oil in its relation to the Middle East
86/32 P.C.L, Radio Telephonic communications.
86/42 Chief Local Representative Bahrain Petroleum
Company.
86/43 Increase in pay to Company employees.
Bahrain Coke - Transferred to cn 29/1/46
86/46 Kuwait Oil Company Miscellaneous
86/47 Umm al Qv/ain 0^1.
86/48 iias ai Kjtalmak Oil.
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The volume is an index of those files created by staff at the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. , that came under the jurisdiction of the Confidential Office of the 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. . Under each subject heading, the subject number, file number and title of the file is listed.
A note at the front of the volume (folio 2) states the Senior Record Clerk at Bushire was responsible for the index, and that files marked blue ‘B’ were those transferred to Bushire, files marked red ‘C’ had been permanently closed, and those marked with a red cross had been destroyed. There are various annotations in red, blue and black pen throughout the volume’s lists. These annotations include: files marked as ‘destroyed’ in the right-hand margin; handwritten corrections to typewritten file titles; and red annotations at the bottom of each subject list indicating the last subject/file number used by the main office. Under these latter annotations, in some subject lists, there are additional typewritten file entries, presumably of new files opened after the creation of the index.
There is no indication of the date that the index was created, with the exception of one annotation that is dated 15 January 1948 (folio 14).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (123 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged by the subject numbers associated with each subject heading, which run from 1 to 101. There is an index of the subject headings, arranged by subject number, on folios 3-5. Under each subject, individual files are arranged in numerically ascending order by their file numbers.
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Foliation: The volume is foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover, using circled pencil numbers in the top-right corner of each recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. . The following foliation anomaly occurs: 17a.
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- Title
- ‘Original C.O. [Confidential Office] File Register’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:17v, 17ar:17av, 18r:124v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence