File 8/9 Annual Report on the State of Bahrain for the year AH 1351 [39r] (82/200)
The record is made up of 1 volume (96 folios). It was created in 3 Jun 1933-27 Jul 1933. 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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(Manamah Ihni c ipali ty)
ibdullah bin Isa and some others none of the owners
of the gardens from whom ground was taken demanded
any compensation for date trees or land. About 400
date trees were cut down but except in the case of
two wakf gardens no payments were made, the fences
however were rebuilt at the expense of the munici
pality. This road is the most used and most import
ant road in Bahrain and owing to its narrowness and
its many blind corners it had become very dangerous.
It was unsuited to much motor traffic and a particular
source of danger were the heavy lorries and tractors
used by the Bahrain Petroleum Company which travelled
up and down the road several times daily. The new
part of the road is now being levelled and the ditches
are being filled in.
Road work by the Bahrain Petroleum Co . During
the year the Bahrain Petroleum Co. have done a great
deal of useful work on the roads which they use and
owing to this the government has been saved considerable
expense in the upkeep of roads. A grader has been
used very effectively on the Manamah - Rafaa - Sakhir
road and a small portion of it has been raised to
prevent the usual flooding during the rains. The
Company constructed a new road, with an oiled surface,
from below tne Rafaa hill to their camp and on to
Al-xjnr. Al-Amr can now be reached from llanamah within
an hour, before the new road was made it took consider
ably longer.
Petrol Store. A petrol store was built at Suwefieh,
on the shore about one mile west of Manamah. The store
is 100 it x 80 feet, built of stone, cement, iron girders
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The volume contains the Annual Report of the Government of Bahrain for the Hijri year 1351 AH. The report is written by the Adviser to the Bahrain Government, Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave.
The report was submitted by Belgrave to 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. at Bahrain, Percy Gordon Loch, who then forwarded it to 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , at Bushire. The correspondence relating to this process is included in the volume.
The report itself (folios 8-83), submitted in June 1933, is divided into sections corresponding to a particular subject, as follows: Revenue and Expenditure; Pearl Industry; Police and Public Security; Judicial; Land Registrations; Education; Manamah Municipality; Muharraq Municipality; Artesian Wells; Agriculture; Sunni Wakf Department; Shia Wakf Department; Audit; Imperial Airways; Press Propaganda; Counterfeit Coins; Death of Shaikh Sir Isa bin Ali [Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah], accession of Shaikh Hamad bin Isa [Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah]; Bahrain Electric Supply; Customs; General; Miscellaneous.
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- 1 volume (96 folios)
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The volume is arranged chronologically.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 98; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 12-83; these numbers are also written in ink, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- File 8/9 Annual Report on the State of Bahrain for the year AH 1351
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- 6r:83v, 87r:89v
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- Belgrave, Sir Charles Dalrymple
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