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FCO 8/123

Bahrain: Rural Affairs (Powers and Duties) No 4 Rural Affairs (Powers and Duties) Amendment No 21, 1968

This file contains the following regulation: Bahrain Government Rural Affairs Department (Powers and Duties) (Amendment) Regulation, 1968, and related correspondence Memorandum by Francis Vallat which recommends that the Foreign Secretary allow this regulation

FCO 8/21

UN membership, 1968

This file relates to the possible UN membership of Bahrain.
FO 1016/321

Fao date gardens: claim against Ruler of Kuwait, 1954

This file contains correspondence relating to:A claim by Qasim Abdul Baqi Al Zuhair on behalf of the heirs of Ali Pasha Al Zuhair against the Ruler of Kuwait Sheikh Abdulla Al Saleem Al Sabah concerning the yield from the latter's date gardens in the tract of land known as Bashiyyah and located in Faddaqiyyah. It includes letters from Al Zuhair to C J Pelly and Sheikh Abdulla, dispatched from BasraThe postponement of the case until July 1954, reported in the Basra Monthly Summary.

FO 1016/213

Protection of Sheikh of Kuwait's date gardens at Fao, 1952

This file relates to the question of the Ruler of Kuwait Sheikh Abdulla Al Salem Al Sabah’s date gardens at Fao [Al Faw] and a court case involving it in Iraq.
FO 371/179940

Jurisdiction, 1965

This file contains correspondence relating to: Request for a copy of the Pesticides Ordinance approved by six of the Trucial States and a further approach to the Ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Shakhbut Bin Sultan Al Nahyan to obtain his signature and enable the implementation of parallel legislation in Bahrain; the approval of the ordinance by Judge Subhi Hijab and its rejection by Sheikh Shakhbut; the Northern Trucial States Pesticides (Control) Regulation 1965 (Queen's Regulation No 4 of 1965) by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf,and approved on 24 August 1965 (4, 7, 20) Tru
FO 1016/117

Protection of the Sheikh of Kuwait's date garden at Fao, 1949 Nov 24-1950 Oct 9

This file relates to a dispute over the Ruler of Kuwait's date garden at Fao [Faw], Iraq, being heard at the Court of Cassation. It details a dispute between an absentee landlord and the tenants.
FO 1016/171

Ruler of Kuwait's land at Fao, 1952

This file relates to the question of the Ruler of Kuwait Sheikh Abdulla Al Salem Al Sabah’s date gardens at Fao [Al Faw] and a court case involving it in Iraq.
FO 371/150016

International Development Association (IDA), 1960

This file relates to the accession of the UK to the International Development Association (IDA) and aid to less developed countries. It contains correspondence concerning: NATO meeting in Istanbul in May 1960, with a brief for the discussion of aid to less developed countries (70, 76) Formation of the IDA as a subsidiary organisation to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the obligations of membership for HMG regarding its dependent territories in terms of immunities and privileges.
FO 371/163034

Economic development, 1962

This file relates to economic development in the Trucial States. It contains correspondence concerning: Plans to develop Abu Dhabi from a village to an oil town.