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great deal of what the Advloor formerly dealt with, In
particular relutionG with Her Majesty's Government and foreign

relatione of all kinds will have to be conducted through the
Political Agent as hitherto and the Secretary will uloo have
to deal v/ith the Ruler's private affairs. To help him the
Secretary will have un Assistant to the Secretary, who must be
a Uahrainifand a suitable office staff. The Accounts

Department which has hitherto been part of the Adviserate
though largely self-contained will in practice be given rather
moro independence under the control of the Director of Finance
which will be the new title of the head of the Accounto
Department although the Secretary to the Government will still
exercise overriding control of policy as he docs in the case of
the departments, already mentioned, of Justice, Health, Education,
Public Works, Agriculture, Police and Public Security and

Electricity. The Secretary to the Government v/ill deal direct !
with ull other subjects as before, In fact it is exceedingly
difficult, if not impossible, to take these subjects away from
the Secretary to the Government (or th-„ Adviser) since they '
can really only be deult v/ith by him in consultation with the
Ruler. These subjects include oil affairs, immigration

policy, development works, and other important aspects of the
general policy of the Bahrain State. Although individually
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they do not all amount to a great deal the total will make a
considerable demand of time and energy on the Secretary.
Thus the reorganization of the present Adviserate into the
Government Secretariat may not in fact bring about very much
change unless the Assistant to the Secretary can be given, and

is cupable of taking and bearing,enough responsibility to
lighten the load on the Secretary. This remains to be seen
because although the new system has been worked out by
Mr. Cummins, whose report will very shortly be submitted to
the/