'الملف رقم 18/55 I (C 101) المرسوم الملكي البريطاني للبحرين' [و‎‎١‎٣‎٨] (٤٧٧/٢٨٩)

India Office, London,
15th January 1915.
Political,
No. 7.
To His Excellency the Right Honourable the Governor
General of India in Council.
My J.ok'd,
^Vith reference to my Secret Despatch No. 41, dated the 15th November
r r j /) ; • ^ 7 • -7 191^» and to subsequent telegraphic
Ike Bahrein Order in Council, , .
]f)j3 correspondence, regarding the Bahrein
Order-in-Oouncil, 1913, T transmit for tlie
information of Your Excellency's Government copy of the Order :;: " as finally
• Balirein Order in Couucil, 1913. ^ Hw Majesty in Council on
the 12th August 1013. Copy of further
correspondence with the Foreign Office, as noted in the margin,! is also
enclose* 1.
t To Foreign Office. Xo. P. 4-074, dated
7th January 1913.
From ditto, No. 1424, dated 3rd Feb- 2. As Your Excellency is aware, the
1U To ditto. No. P. 438, dated 18th Feb- Ba hrein Order-in-Couiicil was published
ruary 1913. i n "London Gazette in August
1 rom ditto, No. 806b, dated 5th March -i n i o i • <• i •
1913. l.)lb; but its further promulgation was
1^^ To ditto, No. P. 850, dated Hth Mai-ch postponed pending the completion of
To ditto. No. P. 4560, dated 17th No- negotiations then in progress with Turkey
No. 52,351, dated 19th and other Powers interested m the Persian
November 1913. Gulf. The question, however, has recently
^jTo ditto, No. ^ dated 8tl. December been recousidered by His Majesty's
From ditto, No. 80,650, dated 12th Government, who have .decided that, in
December 1914. ,
the wnolly dilierent circumstances now
prevailing, there is no longer an}' objection to tlie Order being brought into
immediate operation. ^ ou are accordingly authorised, as you were informed
by my telegram of the 12th January 1915, to publish the text of the Order
forthwith in the " Gazette of India,' 1 and to take the necessary steps, as
prescribed in Article 79 (1), to bring its provisions into force.
3. You should at the same time instruct the Resident in the Persian Gulf
to issue a King's Regulation, under the powers conferred upon him by
Article 70 (c) of the Order, making such alterations as may be required with
respect to Bahrein in the Indian Pilgrim Ships Act (Act XIV . of 1895), which
has been included in the Schedule of " Indian Acts applied " appended to the
Order in Council, 1 would invite reference in this connection to Sir T. liolder-
ness's letter to the Foreign OtHce, No. P. 438, dated the 18th February 1913, a
copy of which will be found among the enclosures of this despatch. You will
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