""ج/١ المجلد IV مسائل متنوعة" [و‎‎١‎١‎٥] (٦٣٢/٢٣٨)

tjuAn at* t*±i# other places —— the only aoolety otner timn \ j
1» that of two or three American Missionaries who nearly always
go away to India or on le*V« to Attarioa during tha hot wsather.
In th* hot woatnar too ao^acioily froa July to Ssptattbar
whan tha heat ia veiy severe — there is not ordinarily, except
when the country is disturbed , much work to do*
Consequently X tirAnk that ^eniiission to qrooeed on recess
while conferring a great boon on the Political ^ent would not
prove injurious to Government interests. l tijerefore beg to
reoommeni that a hot weatner recess ior tne Political ^ent t
Kuwait, whenever tne exigencies of the service permit, may be
sanctioned • >j
SS regard* the length of recess, 1 beg to suggest that the
maximum period of the Political Agent’s absence fiom his post
should be lixed at three months . ‘Phis is the period sanction
ed for Muscat, and would practically coincide witn tne period
away if the Political ngenfc* were allowed two months in India
as are the Political ofiioers at Bahrain and Bunder Abbas,
because it would take the political Agent some ten or twelve
deys to get to India.
perhaps it will not be out ol place here to suggest that
meats for which it is sanctioned and lixed at tnree months •
this would secure uniformity , and in any case as the voyage
from Bahrain to India takes about ten days , ana one possibly
cannot get a steamer exactly at the time wnen two months in
India has been completed, tne difference is only two or three
should spend his recess , 1 suggest any place in India within
forty-eight hours of Kaiac'ni as is allowed lor tne other
ofiioers enjoying the privilege of receus ; but 1 would also
has been established -nd working well, the Political agent
might be permitted, if he bo desires , to proceed to tne
Lebanon lor hi© recess , provided t.at tne wovernmeat 14 put
to no more expense tn*a would be the case if he went to India, v
Should this be , granted the Political agent would be able to
i=.\JQy ,
the period of reoess might be made «,ne same lor all the appoint-
days one way or the ctner, and, 1 think immaterial.
In regard to the place at wrh.cn the Political Agent
new that
suggest as on alternative triat^ne overland route xrem Baghdad