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'Cyphers and Secret Documents: Safe Custody Reports and Handing Over Certificates for Secret Documents' [96v] (197/523)
The record is made up of 1 file (260 folios). It was created in 30 Dec 1936-24 Sep 1946. 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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of Real and Personal Property did not have the effect of limiting the rights of British subjects on
account of their connexion with a territory not covered by the Convention. The Colonial Office,
who were interested in the case, asked that copies of official despatches, in which
Lord Salisbury's view of the matter had been fully expressed, might be supplied for production
in court. Copies of the relevant despatches were accordingly certified by the Librarian, and
sent to His Majesty's Ambassador at Washington to be handed to the solicitor engaged in
the case.
Case No. 17.
Memorandum, paragraph 20.
L 12*24, 1542 and 2179/1224/405 of 1928.
Proceedings in the Dutch courts were instituted by the British firm of Gilbert
Marchant and Co. against a German firm, Schnabel and Co., who were alleged to have defrauded
them. The German firm in their defence made use of statements contained in a letter written
by one J. Lissauer to His Majesty's Consul-General at Hamburg, and Messrs Gilbert
Marchant and Co. asked to be supplied with a copy of the letter in order to answer Schnabel's
defence. An application had previously been made by them to His Majesty's Consul-General,^
who had refused. It was pointed out to the Consul-General that his action might enable the
firm to claim that their efforts to establish a case against a foreign firm which had defrauded
them, so far from being assisted by the British authorities, were being impeded. It could not
be maintained that the public interest was in any way served by withholding the letter, and
there was the possibility that an order might be obtaned from the Dutch court for its production,
in which case questions of an embarrassing character might arise.
In the absence of any specific reasons which might be advanced by the Consul-General, it
was proposed to supply the firm with a copy of Lissauer's letter. No grounds to the contrary
were advanced, and an uncertified copy of the letter was supplied.
Case No. 18.
Memorandum, paragraphs 20 and 20 (2).
12919/2465 Consr. France 1908.
In 1876 the original or a copy of a document was required in evidence before a civil court in
Germany; on the 3rd January, 1877, the Law Officers advised on this case that " His Majesty's
consular officers abroad should, on the order of local courts, produce copies or originals of
declarations made by them in their official capacity, where such declarations relate to the
interests of individuals only and the public interests are not concerned." It is, however,
conceived that such production would remain voluntary and could not be compelled by the local
courts in so far as the documents were part of the archives.
Case No. 19.
Memorandum, paragraph 20 and 20 (2). ^
12919/2465 Consr. France 1908.
His Majesty's Consul-General at Paris requested instructions regarding the production
in court, if required, of consular registers or consular fee cash books. The plaintiffs in the
proceedings denied the existence of a document alleged to have been signed by them at the
Consulate-General, while the consular fee book showed that a power of attorney had been
executed by them on the date in question. The Consul-General was informed that he might, if
requested, produce in court the fee cash book, or a certified copy of the page required, making,
however, the reservation that he did so by permission of the Secretary of State as a matter of
grace to the court and in order to further the ends of justice.
Case No. 20.
Memorandum, paragraph 20 (2).
T 3377/1498/373 of 1981.
The Passport Control Officer in Paris was asked to produce certain letters from a film
company asking him to grant a visa to one of their employees. These letters were stated to be
material to litigation in the Paris courts between the company and the employee concerned.
Instructions were issued that the letters, being the property of His Majesty's Government,
production of them could not be compelled, but that nevertheless voluntary production might be
made provided it was indicated that this was done as an act of grace.
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The file contains papers relating to the safe custody and transfer by the Bahrain Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of secret and confidential publications and cyphers and codes. The file contains correspondence from 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 and from other British officials, safe custody certificates, transfer certificates, and related papers. The papers include:
- papers relating to the custody of ' Field Notes on Saudi Arabia - 1935', December 1936 - September 1946, including certificates of safe custody sent to the Air Officer Commanding, British Forces in Iraq;
- papers relating to the updating of the 'Military Report on the Arabian States in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ', May - June 1941 and March 1942, including correspondence between 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 and the Government of India, correspondence from Major H T Hewitt, Defence Officer, Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , containing reports on defence arrangements in Bahrein [Bahrain] and Qatar, May 1941, letter from E V Packer, Petroleum Concessions Limited containing a report on the oil situation in Qatar, June 1941, letter from Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain containing a report on the Bahrain naturs, May 1941, and report on the route from Sharjah to Kalba by Cornelius James Pelly, 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. on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , Sharjah, March 1942, with sketch map, folio 81;
- Foreign Office memorandum on the production of official documents, 1942.
The Arabic content of this file consists of printed text on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. of the sketch map on folio 81. This sheet appears to have been reused for drawing the map.
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- 1 file (260 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Serial numbers written in blue and red crayon (blue for sent correspondence, red for received correspondence) are present throughout the file. They refer to entries in the notes at the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 258 on the back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and can be found 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 anomalies: ff. 1, 1A; ff. 3, 3A; ff. 53, 53A; ff. 185, 185A. A second incomplete foliation sequence numbered 53-250 is also present between ff. 52-245. The numbers are written in pencil, but are not circled, and appear in the same position as the main sequence.
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- 'Cyphers and Secret Documents: Safe Custody Reports and Handing Over Certificates for Secret Documents'
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- front,front-i,1ar:1av,2r:3r,3ar:3av,4r:53v,53ar:53av,54r:80v,82r:185v,185ar:185av,186r:257v,back-i,back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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