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'Administration Reports 1925-1930' [‎57r] (118/418)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (205 folios). It was created in 1926-1931. 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 final basis of the new tax. This has on the one hand led undoubtedly
to the demanding of money by these survey officials in consideration of their
making low assessments, or to over-assessment of values, failing the receipt
of 'douceurs'. One Persian Finance Officer, who had no reason to mis
lead, informed the Consulate that a colleague had made, 5,000 Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. in
this way; and, as an old resident of the British commercial community put
it "with the exception of Major Hall and Haji Isz-ul-Mamalik, from the
highest to the lowest, they are all robbing and extorting from the people,
and taking bribes right and left, and none knows where to turn for re
dress, as complaints to Tehran are ignored."
Recent quarterly reports of the Administrator-General give the num
ber of employees of the Department in Fars as : 259 in September 1925,
314 in September 1926.
As to the revenue obtained from Fars, in which is now included the
Gulf Ports Province for purposes of taxation, all receipts are paid into the
Imperial Bank of Persia, and expenditure made from the same account.
In strict confidence, the following figures have been privately furnish
ed, and are quoted because they give a better idea of the true state of affairs
than the various separate tables in the quarterly reports of the Adminis
trator-Gener ail. In March !1925-2Q Krs. 9,494,374 paid into 'ordinary
account.' In March 1926—Jan. 15, 1927 Krs. 7,626,099 paid into ordinary
account' which roughly means"^hat some 30,000 Krans {i.e., from 791,197
to 762,609) less per mensem have been collected in the current year by an
increased staff.
As to expenditure. —From December 1925 (when the separate disburs
ing account of monies received for the purpose by telegraphic
transfers from the Ministry of Finance, was opened) till March 21, 1926
the cost of administration was Krs. 810,365. From March 22 1926 to Jan.
15th 1927 it was Krs. 3,793,728.
This represents an increased cost of administration (not inclusive of
the salary of the Provincial Director from the United States) from Krans
270,171 yer mensem in 1925-26 to Krans 379,372 in 1926-27 \ or 100,000
Krans p. m.
Ft aJ so implies that the monthly cost of administration in the current
year is nearly 50 per cent, of the revenue collected.
The result is not encouraging, and shows how difficult is the financial
problem in the southern region.
Trade and Economic Features. —From early in 1926 to September the
unremunerative and unhealthy condition of trade was even more pronounced
than in 1925. From September money began to circulate more freely with
the revival of the opium trade (which had practically ceased to the Far
Fast from absence of demand), this time by British and Dutch Colonial
Governments.
I hat the effect of the Sugar Monopoly Tax in (a) removing very large
sums of the trading capital of importers (because prices to the consumer
have risen little and the prime cost of sugar in the world market has been
low), and (7/) driving the smaller importer out of business by reason of the
considerable total in Customs and Monopoly duties to be advanced in cash
on import, has damaged trade generally is clear. Moreover the smuggling
along the Persian coast from the Arab ports has quite naturally, in view ol*
the utterly disproportionate duties taken on the two coasts, the inability
of the poor F ersian peasantry to buy dear sugar, and their large consump
tion of it, greatly increased during 1926. A few isolated captures and
confiscations of smuggled cargoes was a drop in the ocean: the lengtli of
the I ersian coast-line and its difficult nature for a preventive service, coupled
with the fact that the whole coastal population is hand in glove with the
smugglers and benefits from their activities renders the Customs adminis
tration helpless to cope with it. Moreover too, on all hands one hears of
pe ty merchants buying smuggled consignments so that monopoly-paid sugar
has to complete at a loss with sales of smuggled goods outside and inside the
town, as far mlanci as Shiraz.
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The volume includes Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1925 (GIPS, 1926); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1926 (GIPD, 1927); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1927 (GIPD, 1928); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1928 (GIPS, 1929); [ Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1929 ] (GIPS, 1930); and Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1930 (GIPS, 1931); . The volume bears some manuscript corrections.

The Administration Reports contain separate reports, arranged in chapters, on each of the principal Agencies, Consulates, and Vice-Consulates that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , and provide a wide variety of information, including review by 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. ; details of senior British administrative personnel and foreign representatives; local government; military, naval, and air force matters; political developments; trade and economic matters; shipping; aviation; communications; notable events; medical reports; the slave trade; and meteorological details.

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1 volume (205 folios)
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The Reports are bound in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation system in use commences at 1 on the front cover and continues through to 207 on the back cover. The sequence is written in pencil, enclosed in a circle, and appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.

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