ملف رقم ١٣١١ لسنة ١٩٠٥ "الخليج الفارسي: - مكاتب البريد. (اتفاقية الطرود البريدية)" [و‎‎٤‎٤] (٤٣٤/٩٤)

No. 3.
Tehran,
February 24, 1910.
Sir,
With reference to my telegram No. 8 of February 1st, informing you that action
had been suspended in the matter of the proposed arrangement for the Customs
treatment of postal parcels arriving at the British-Indian post offices in the Persian
Gulf, I have the honour to state that on receipt of Despatch No. 94-3209 from
His Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Bushire, enclosing a copy of his Despatch
No. 3208 of Decembc r 19th addressed to the Secretary to the Government of India, Pro >t definitif.
I consulted the Director of Persian Customs regarding the amendments suggested
by Major Trevor.
As regards (a) an addition in the sense suggested has been appended to instroctiona to
( 6 ) Monsieur Mornard foresees that difficulties would be raised by other foreign j
Consular Officers at Bushire, if preferential treatment in the matter of delivering I
parcels were accorded to British exempted officers and were expressly laid down
in the Regulations. In order, however, to meet the wishes expressed by Major
Trevor, Monsieur Mornard is sending instructions to the Customs officers at Bushire
(copy enclosed) to deliver direct parcels addressed to the British officers in question,
and so to consecrate his acceptance of the practice hitherto observed.
(c) As regards book packets, it will be noticed that newspapers, printed
matter and books ” are now expressly included in Article 2, which gi ve ® a
articles which may be distributd without the intervention of the post. Monsieur
Mornard considers that if books arrive in closed packets, as opposed to the ordinary
parcelpost, they must be sent to the Customs House to be verified m the same way
as other exempted articles. He trusts, however, that the addition to Article 2
will meet all requirements.
(d) The words M en bonnes conditions apparentes ” have now been added to
Article 4. This addition has necessitated the inclusion of the subsequent paragraph
relating to the treatment of damaged parcels which forms a further addition to the
same article.
Article I.
&c., &c.,
>. Secretary to the Government of India
in the Foreign Department.
No. 10912.
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