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File 80/1913 Pt 1 'Arabistan: telegraph line' [28r] (60/392)
The record is made up of 1 volume (192 folios). It was created in 25 Jun 1912-27 Nov 1919. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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the balance due from the Persian Government under the Article
quoted is Rs.3,10,345 (£20,690) and, if approved, I submit
that this bill may be sent in triplicate to the Foreign
Office to forward to the British Linister at Teheran for
presentation to the Persian Government at a favourable moment.•
The amount due from the Persian Government, £20,690, is
under the terms of Article 2 to be diminished annually by the
sum of £300 payable by the British Government for the maintenance
of the line commencing from the date of the coMnencement of the
work, 11th February, 1914, and up to the 1st January, 1945.
There will therefore be 31 annual payments of £300 on account
of maintenance and by the 1st January 1945 the debt due from the
Persian Government will have been diminished by 31 X £300
or £9,300, leaving a balance on that date still due from Persia
of £11,390, A method for the recovery of this remains to be
negotiated.
The Treasury agreed to share, to the extent of £9,030, in
the advance made to Persia of the balance of the actual ' o vt
of the work in excess of £5,000 (Pol,6*'/14 and 912/14) and on
the 28th May, 1915, paid £8,560 being a moiety of the cost of the
work which had been completed to Shuster, leaving a / section
of line to Dizful, 36 miles, then incomplete. The advance
made to Persia, as shown by attachment B, is £20,090, and since
the treasury agreed to share in this advance to the extent of
£9,030 only, the balance £11,660 constitutes the share to be
borne by the Indian Exchequer. The Treasury having already
advanced £8,560 a sur of £470, the balance of the £9,030
which they agreed to contribute towards the advance to 1 jrsia,
is still due from them and nay, I submit, be now applied for.
There is also due from the Treasury a sum of £150 being a
moiety of the annual payment of £300 for the maintenance of the
line due to Persia for the year 1917-18. On ourside there is
due to the Treasury the suib of £500 being the annual instalment
for 1917-18 in part repayment of the advance they made in
1915-16
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The volume comprises one part discussing the Arabistan telegraph line: correspondence, notes and telegrams regarding repairs to the Line, and arrangements made with the Persian Government regarding their modernization after the destruction of the tract between Bander Rig [Bandar Rig, Iran] and Borasjun [Borazjan, Iran].
The volume contains the 1913 agreements between the Telegraph Department of the British Government and the Persian Minister of Post and Telegraphs for the reorganization of the Arabistan Telegraph Lines and the prolongation of the Telegraph Conventions until 1945, minutes of meetings at the Foreign Office; statements showing yearly payments made or to be made for the Line from 1914 to 1945; and statements showing the estimated and actual cost of its construction.
The volume also contains a map of the Arabistan Telegraph Line (folio 15).
The principal correspondents are the Foreign Office, the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , the Indo European Telegraph Department, the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and His Majesty's Minister in Tehran.
The volume comprises part 1. This includes a divider which gives the subject and part number, year the subject file was opened, subject heading, and list of correspondence references contained by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (192 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 80 consists of three volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/325-327. The volumes are divided into 4 parts, with parts 1 and 2 comprising the first two volumes, and parts 3 and 4 comprising the third volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 194; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- IOR/L/PS/10/325
- Title
- File 80/1913 Pt 1 'Arabistan: telegraph line'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:14v, 16r:184r, 185r:193v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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