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The Bahrain Order in Council, 1907-1913

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No. 188 of 1907.
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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT.
SECRET.
External.

To
The Right Hon’ble JOHN MORLEY, O.M.,
Hit Majesty's Secretary of State for India.

Simla, the 14th November 1907,

Sir,
Wo have the honour to address you on tho subjoct of tho judicial powers
oxorciscd by our Agout in Bahrein.
2. Tho Agout has* at presont tho powers of a Magistrate of tho 1st class
• ns, o.wito of initio Notification No. ns described in tho Codo of Crimiual
4G8K..A., d»Ud tli« 22nd March 1901 ■ publiilicd -r, . _ orio • . p „rr
io ivn i of tiio utMito. dated tho 23rd March tool. Frocoduro, 1808, in rospcct ol oitences
committed by Native Indian subjects of His Majosty in tho island of Bahroin
and on tho southern shores of tho Porsiau Gulf. Ho also extonds his good
t rid, Secret dcipatcli from Secretary of Slate, ofBcosf to Europcau foreigners in any
q(,<) No. 10, dated llie 2lit Juno 1001. disputos botwoon them and tho Chiof of
Bahroin or his subjeots.
Next, ho holdst a court, composod of himsolf and a represontativo of tho
Ohiof, for tho trial of cases in which
J, .., £ i q the acousod is a Bahroin subject or a
foreignor who profors not to invoko British good ofllcos, and the othor party
is a British or foreign subjoct who does so.
Finally, lio§ controls a local court of arbitration for tho adjustment of
oivil disputos betwcon British subjocts
5 Vide oncloiuro No. 6.
and protdgds ou tho ono hand, and
Bahrein subjoots or persons of any othor nationality, ou tho othor baud. This
court has boon in cxistonco for ovor 50 years.
Ho also, on occasions,|| issuos bills of hoalth, signs marine protests, and
legalises signaturos on bohalf of British
II I'id, cnoloiuro No. 3,
Indian subjoots. Strictly speaking, how­
ever, ho has no legal authority for undertaking theso latter duiioi.

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