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Coll 28/3(2) ‘Persia. Financial situation.’ [192v] (384/817)
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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Corporation. A considerable internal reorganization in the Administra
tion of Accounts and Audits is being carried out under the direction of
Mr. Shambarger. Progress can be reported in the organization of a statist^
cal system. Attention has been given to the organization, as well as the ad
ministration, of the Agricultural and Industrial Hank, the Kdiouzistan Agri
cultural Society, the Khorassan Agricultural Society, and the Road Fransport
Department. A commission has been formed to study the finance High
School and make recommendations regarding it. I he biggest organizational
job of all, that concerned with price stabilization, is going forward under
Mr. Robinson, who has been appointed C liief Administrator of the Section
of Price Stabilization. Asa part of this reorganization, the Foreign Transac
tions Department, formerly in the Ministry of food, has been transferred
to the Section of Price Stabilization.
Administration
It is impossible in this report to review, except in the most general
way, the significant actions that have been taken in the various adminis
trations. The following, taken from the reports of the administrations, are
called to Your Excellency's attention.
Under Mr. Manoocherian s direction commendable progress has been
made in the Administration of Personnel with reference to the handling of
numerous arreared dossiers and the preparation of fundamental projects.
The Administration of General Supply, under Mr. Robinson, has made
progress, despite extraordinary difficulties, in locating and handling the
movable properties of the Government and in putting the procurement, cus
tody, and distribution of supplies on a sound basis. This Administration
has devoted considerable time to the temporary conversion of one wing of
the new Finance building into an emergency typhus hospital, to the improve
ment of the bread service of the Ministry of Finance, and to the obtaining
of automobiles and tires for use in the collection of grain and opium.
The Administration of General Inspection is being built up under
the direction of Mr. Xelli. its work is of major importance and, I am con
fident, will be increasingly useful. It has already conducted a number of
important inspections. Thorough investigations will be made in the provinces
as soon as transportation means are available.
The work of the Administration of Internal Revenue is at this time
peculiarly vital to the solution of the country’s problems. Under the direc
tion of Mr. Robinson and, more recently that of Mr. Nariman, this Admin-
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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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