مجموعة ٢٨/٢٩: "مشهد: مخصصات المكتب والمباني القنصلية" [و‎‎٢‎٣] (٣٤٣/٤٧)

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Minute Paper.
political Department.
In September last His Majesty^ Consul-General for
Khorassan received a demand from the Governor-General for
Khorassan for the sum of Rials 7,364, which was later
footpath in front of the British Consulate-General at
Meshed,
The demand does not appear to be based on any
Iranian law making householders liable for the cost of
asphalting pavements in front of their houses,but simply
on an administrative decision. H.M. Minister at Tehran,
law. Moreover, refusal to pay might give the Meshed
authorities grounds for misrepresenting the action as a
refusal to co-operate in improvements specially enjoined
by the Shah.
The Foreign Office consider that the charge should
be met ^ and the Government of India agree. A draft
letter to the Foreign Office concurring in their proposal
to authorise expenditure of Rials 3,940, half of which
would be charged to Indian revenues, is submitted
accordingly.
Financial Secretary .
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j lii* reduced to Rials 3,940, for the asphalting of the
however, thinks that the charge could nurrnnfrfrnTT be
however, thinks that the charge could nurrnmTfTrrry be
contested on the ground that it had no basis in Iranian
For concurrence or any observations.