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File 522/1922 Pt 6 'Persian Gulf: Bahrain: Financial Adviser: Budget' [38r] (86/382)
The record is made up of 1 volume (187 folios). It was created in 1 Sep 1924-11 Sep 1931. 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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MAN AMAH MUNICIPALITY.
Finance..
Total Revenue 1348 Hs. 1,06,558/10/7
cLo 1349 62,287/7/4
Expenditure 1349 68,662/8/-
Balance end of1349 47,763/14/1
The Municipal revenue, which depends partly on local
taxation, shows a considerable falling off apart from the
reduction of the c-overnment subsidy from .Hs.24,000/- in
1348 to Rs.12,000/- in 1349.
Trade depression has affected the payment of taxes,
some seven hundred householders have failed to pay, most
of them being divers who made nothing during the last
season and received no advances this year.
The Municipalities should eventually become self sup
porting but this cannot be done without raising the muni
cipal taxes on shops and ^houses, which are at present very
low especially in the case of hazaar property, xhe taxes
were assessed according to no regular system and the amounts
are very inconsistent. . It was proposed that a reassessment
should he made hut this proposal, like any others that are
likely to affect the purses of the memhers of the council
themselves, was received with no enthusiasm. In matt-.ro
of finance which touch their pockets the municipal coun
cillors show a conspicuous lack of public feeling.
The following improvements were carried out during 1349
Cemeteries . A disused cemetery at Kozacia was s■ rounded
hy a six feet wall, it is no longer used as houses have been
built very near to it.
The Sunni and Shia cemeteries on the south of tut t0fln
have been walled in,leaving enough space for expansion.This
has much improved the appearance of the southernZ*±iKi of the
town, and has provided work for numbers of boats employed in
bringing stones from the sea. The funds for -"--s
have
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Correspondence, minute papers, and memoranda relating to the finances of the Bahrain state. The papers cover a number of matters, including the appointment and retention of Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave as Financial Adviser in Bahrain, annual budgets and reports, and the economic situation in the country more generally. Correspondence is between officials at 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. , Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain, Government of India (Foreign and Political Department), and Belgrave himself.
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- 1 volume (187 folios)
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The volume is arranged in chronological order from the back to the front.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 183; 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 3-72, and between ff 93-122; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
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- IOR/L/PS/10/1044
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- File 522/1922 Pt 6 'Persian Gulf: Bahrain: Financial Adviser: Budget'
- Pages
- 177r:182v, 160r:160v, 128r:146v, 95r:122v, 86r:87v, 8r:72v
- Author
- Belgrave, Sir Charles Dalrymple
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