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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [257r] (518/616)
The record is made up of 1 volume (304 folios). It was created in 1907-1911. 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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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.
FOR 1910.
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who remained in charge till the end of the year. Monsieur Degraeve was
Assistant Director from the commencement of the year until Monsieur Con
stant's arrival when he replaced the latter at Bandar Abbas.
Relations between the British merchants and the Customs authorities
have been in the main very friendly during the year. In opposing an in
creased tax on certain kinds of tea, and on obtaining a reduction of 50 per
cent, on the export duty of wheat and barley, the Provincial Director co
operated heartily with the merchants. The latter reform, it may be noted,
was eventually carried out by the Administrator General of Customs in
Tehran on his own responsibility when he perceived the hopelessness of wait
ing for action on the part of the Minister of Finance. The embargo on the
texport of grain was similarly removed in April, the result of the two
measures, coupled with a good crop, being a revival of the export trade in
cereals.
The question of the repair and rebuilding of the actual Customs premises
was the subject of a good deal of discussion between the Director, the mer
chants and the Consulate-General.
In the course of their efforts to put down smuggling, the Customs Depart
ment met with considerable opposition during the year from the tribal chiefs
of Tangistan and Dashti, reprisals by the latter going so far as the murder
of the Customs Mudirs within their jurisdiction and a threatened attack on
Bushire. His Excellency the Darya Begi, when appealed to by the Director
to punish the offenders, replied that the tribal levies of the outlying country,
which were the only troops at his disposal, although willing to restore order in
Lingah and Bandar Abbas, would not fight their neighbours the Tangistanis.
The Darya Begi's statement is quite true and troops from up-country are badly
needed. The Customs posts in Dashti and Tangistan were accordingly closed,
and all export and import from and to the ports of these districts prohibited.
Smusfglinsr through all the petty ports along the coast line is now a regularly
organised industry, and, with the totally inadequate resources at their com
mand, it is very difficult for the local authorities to cope with it.
Captain C. B. McConaghy held the post of Chief Quarantine Medical
iOfficer in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
throughout
Quarantine and
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.
Hospital. + i
MEMORANDA BY CAPTAIN McCONAGHY ON THE WORKING OF
THE QUARANTINE ADMINISTRATION AND OF THE RESI
DENCY HOSPITAL ARE ATTACHED. (APPENDIX I.)
Bushire Anjuman. —The activities of the Local Anjuman or Town Coun
cil of Bushire were confined during the
Local Government. fi rs t half of the year under report to the
intrigues of its various members against one another notably those of the no
torious Mirza Hussein, until lately Dragoman of the German Consulate. This
individual, having proclaimed that he had severed all connection with that
Consulate succeeded, at the beginning of the year, in getting himself elected
as one of the candidates for the two seats allotted to the Gulf Ports in the
Tehran Medjliss, the other being one Mirza Ali Kazeruni, a disreputable petty
merchant and a fraudulent bankrupt. Both individuals, however, were de
nounced as having obtained their election by chicanery and neither of them
proceeded to Tehran. Mirza Hussein has since been re-appointed German
Consulate Mirza, and the Anjuman in question has ceased to exist.
Anjuman-i-Baladiyeh.—K new Anjuman however, ^ known as the
" Anjuman-i-Baladiyeh " or Municipal Council, came into existence during tne
year. Under the direction of the Governor, elections for this body (20 mem
bers) were held in the first week of August Its strength and activities m
municipal matters have varied from time to time. ^ At one period its num ers
dwindled to two members. The body cannot be said to be popular. I s mea "
sures necessitate the provision of funds, which, in turn, involves the evy o
Dew taxes which are naturally distasteful to the people. The Council began
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The volume contains Administration Report on 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. for 1905-1906 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1907); Administration Report on 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 Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1906-1907 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1908); Administration Report of 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 the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1907-1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); Administration Report of 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 the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for April-December1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); Administration Report of 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. for the Year Ending 31st December 1909 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911); and Administration Report of 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. for the Year 1910 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911).
The Reports contain reviews 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. and chapters on each of the consulates, agencies, and other administrative regions that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. . The Reports contain information on political developments, territorial divisions, local administration, principal tribes, British personnel and appointments, trade and commerce, naval and marine matters, communications, judicial matters, archaeology, pearl fisheries, the slave trade, arms and ammunition traffic, medical matters and public health, oil, notable visitors and events, meteorological data, and related topics.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 306 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and can be found 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. The following folios need to be folded out to be read: ff. 40, 261.
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