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Coll 28/3(2) ‘Persia. Financial situation.’ [104r] (207/817)
The record is made up of 1 file (407 folios). It was created in 7 Sep 1938-1 Jan 1946. It was written in English and French. 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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progress made by inspection commissions in Qum, Kashan, Azerbaijan,
Hamadan, Aligudarz and Khorassan.
In addition to the General Inspection Administration, we have crea
ted specialized inspection services in ihe administrations and sections, no
tably in the Road Transport Administration and the Distribution Section.
These services arc doing increasingly effective work. Commendable pro
gress has been made in the discovery and checking of frauds in connec
tion with coupons. An attempt to steal goods from the Government store
has been detected and appropriately dealt with. Recently we have had some
cases of forgery.
The Accounts and Audits Administration bears the major responsi
bility for preventing and uncovering financial irregularities. The system
that has been in operation in the Iranian Government is inadequate to
insure either proper and prompt accounting or effective auditing. Improve
ment in this connection is being made.
The Accounts and Audits Administration reports the following lour
examples of irregularities discovered during Bahman; one in the Glycerine
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
, where the General Inspection Administration is making investiga
tions; one in the Cereals and Bread Section, where a check without sup
porting documents was issued for approximately (>00.000 rials; one in the
Ministry of Justice, where a sum of approximately 170,000 rials was im
properly disbursed; and one in the Ministry of M ar, where a large sum
had been advanced to a contractor for the delivery of rice. Ihe rice was
not delivered, and the letter of guarantee given by the contractor was
found to be forged.
Our inspectors are seriously handicapped by the lack of automobiles.
We have honest and zealous financial agents, but in some cases they
are practically unable to visit their sub - agencies. In Yazd, for ex
ample, the financial
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
has no automobile that is capable of being
used.
In my opinion, a major means of eliminating dishonesty is to have an
American Finance Director in each of the provinces. In the two provinces where
Americans are now stationed, the results have already been gratifying. Du-
' ring the last month. Mr. Wiens at Isfahan, ably assisted by Iranian officials,
has uncovered a considerable amount of thievery at Nadjafabad and has
recovered large sums of stolen money. American finance Directors, with
their own inspection forces, can exercise a more constant control and a
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Papers reporting on the financial situation in Iran, sent by staff at the British Legation at Tehran (Horace James Seymour; Reader William Bullard) to the Foreign Office, London. The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/3 ‘Persia. Financial situation’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3394).
The file includes:
- Covering letters enclosing copies of the monthly Bulletin , produced by the Bank Melli Iran (also referred to as the Mellié Iran Bank, and Banque Mellié Iran). The copies of Bulletin are not included in the file (although some front covers do survive), however the covering letters give short summaries of their lead articles.
- Details and estimates for Iran’s annual budgets, with numerous statistical tables.
- Correspondence dated December 1939 to February 1940 relating to irrevocable documentary confirmed credits (irrevocable letters of credit) opened by Bank Melli Iran through banks in India (ff 356-361).
- Copies of laws passed by the Iranian Parliament, including a law relating to war credits and treasury bills (in French, f 334), a Law for the Prevention of Hoarding (ff 325-329) and an Income Tax Law (ff 262-271).
- Correspondence and budget reports dated 1943-1944, produced during the takeover of the administration of Iran’s Finance Ministry by a mission from the United States, led by Arthur Chester Millspaugh.
At the front of the file (ff 4-200) are fourteen monthly reports of the Administrator General of the Finances of Iran (Millspaugh), produced according to the Solar Hijri calender, and dating from Ordibehesht 1322 (equivalent to the Gregorian calendar date of 22 April to 22 May 1943) to Mehr 1323 (23 September to 22 October 1944). The reports, which also contain lists of staff of the Iranian Ministry of Finance and its connected organisations, summarise Iranian finances. Many of the reports contain a map of Iran (for example, folio 185), showing borders, roads and railways, major towns and cities, and districts, which are numbered 1 to 10.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (407 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file. The file’s correspondence begins at folio 202 and ends at folio 407. Printed reports occupy the front portion of the file (with an enclosing note, ff 4-201), and are also arranged in reverse chronological order.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 408; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/3396
- Title
- Coll 28/3(2) ‘Persia. Financial situation.’
- Pages
- 187r:200v, 176r:186v, 162r:175v, 149r:161v, 138r:148v, 126r:137v, 109r:125v, 84r:108v, 68r:83v
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- Bank Melli Iran
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