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Records of Bahrain

No. G7 or 1011.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT.

6 :
SECRET.
General.
To

The Right Hon’ble the EARL op CREWE, K.G.,
Mis Majcaty'8 Secretary of State for India.

Simla ; the 8th June, 1911.

My Lord,
With roforonco to Lord Morloy’s Sccrot despatch, No. 11, dated •VVN.**;
tho 21st May 1909, wo havo tho honour to forward, for the information of Ilia • i
Majesty’s Government, tho correspondence detailed in tho annoxed schedule in
regard to the proposed Order in Counoil for iiahroin.
2. Tho Political Resident in tho Porsian Gulf has procured from tho
Shoikh of Bahroiu a request in writing
Fide enclosure No. 2.
that ho may bo rcliovcd by tho British
Government of the responsibility of exorcising jurisdiction ovor foroignors in
his territory. Wo consider the documont valid onough for tho purposes for
which it is required, as it distinctly surrenders all civil and criminal jurisdic­
tion ovor foreigners in Bahroin to tho British Govornmont. We, therefore,
rccommond that tho Political Resident may bo ompoworod to inform tho
Sheikh that following thorcon, tho needful provision has boon made by His
Majesty’s Government.
3. Wo also submit, for Your Lordship’s consideration, a draft of tho
proposed Order, and would draw attention to tho following spocific recoramond-
ntions made by our Political ltosidout
Vide .ncloiuro No. 4.
in tho Persian 6ulf, viz.:—
(a) tho definition of tho expression “ Foreigner ”,
(&) tho noed for a sot of regulations for Registration, and
(c) tho necessity for tho Court of tho Political Resident in tho Porsian
Gulf being constituted tho “ Chief Court ” for purposes of
Appoals undor tho proposed Ordor.
As wo agreo in substanco with tho viows expressed by the Political
Re9idont tho Order has boon drafted to include provision covering tho points
detailed abovo. But in respect of tho grant of tho powors of a '* Chief Court ”
to tho Political Resident, in preference to subordinating tho Bahroin Courts to
tho High Court at Bombay, wo would, in drawing attontion to tho viows
expressed on a similar consideration in conncotiou with Somaliland in ,
paragraph 4 of Lord George Hamilton’s Political dospatoh, No. 28, dated tho \
8th April 1897, mention that tho Political Rosidont will ho instructed by lottor
that when exorcising these powors ho must hold his Court within tho limits of
tho Ordor.
Similarly tho Judicial Assistant to tho Consul-General for Pars and tho
Coast and Islands of tho Persian Gulf, aud to tho Political Resident in tho
Porsian Gulf, to whom spocial powers aro to bo givou, will hold his Court,