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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [‎178r] (360/456)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (222 folios). It was created in 1914-1919. 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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detailed regulations.
37
Pays de I’Union.

Countries of the Union.
Paraguay - _
Paraguay
Pays-Bas
Netherlands
Colonies neerlandaises :
Dutch Colonies :
Antilles neerlamlaises -
Dutch Antilles
Guyane neerlandaise -
Dutch Guiana
Indes neerlacdaises
Dutch Indies -
Perou -
Peru - - _
Perse - - .
Persia -
Portugal (y compris Azores
Portugal (including
et Madere).
Azores and Madeira).
Colonies portugaises :
Portuguese Colonies :
Colonies portugaises de
Portuguese African
I’Afrique.
Colonies.
Inde portugaise -
Portuguese India- -
Macao et Timor Portu-
Portuguese Macao and
gais.
anti Timor.
Itnssie - - .
Russia -
Salvador - .
Salvador - - - |
Siam -
Siam - - .
Suede - -
Sweden - - _ j
Turquie -
Turkey -
Uruguay - - .
Uruguay - . _
25 centimes.
15 centimes.
10 centimes.
5 centimes.
15 centavos
18 centavos
9 centavos
de peso.
12^ cents.
cents.
de peso.
5 cents.
de peso.
2^ cents.
12^ cents.
7 i cents.
5 cents.
2i cents.
12^ cents.
7 | cents.
5 cents.
2^ cents.
12^ cents.
7 ^ cents.
5 cents.
2^ cents.
0 centavos.

4 centavos.
2 centavos.
13 chains.

6 chains.
3 chains.
50 reis.
30 reis.
20 reis.
10 reis.
50 reis.
30 reis.
20 reis.
10 reis.
2 tangas.
15 reis.
10 reis.
5 reis.
10 avos.
6 avos.
4 avos.
2 avos.
0 kopeks.

4 kopeks.
2 kopeks.
3 centavos.

2 centavos.
1 centavo.
12 atts.
8 atts.
5 atts.
3 atts.
20 ore.

10 ore.
5 ore.
40 paras.

20 paras.
10 paras.
centesimos
3 centesimos
2 centesimos
1 centesimo
de peso.
de peso.
de peso.
de peso.
2; En cas de changement du systeme
monetaire dans 1’un des pays susmen-
tionnes ou de modification importante dans
la valeur de sa monnaie, I’Administration
de ce pays doit s’entendre avec 1’Adminis
tration des postes suisses pour modifier
les equivalents ci-dessus; il appartient a
cette derniere Administration de faire
notilier la modification a tons les autres
Offices de 1’Union par 1’intermediaire du
Bureau international.
3. Les fractions monetaires resultant,
soit du complement de taxe applicable aux
correspondances insuffisamment affran-
chies, soit de la fixation des taxes des
correspondances echangees avec les pays
etrangers a 1’Union ou de la combinaison
des taxes de 1’Union avec les surtaxes
prevues par Particle 5 de la Convention,
peuyent etre arrondies par les Adminis
trations qui en effectuent la perception.
Mais la somme a ajouter de ce chef ne
peut, dans aucun cas, exceder la valeur
d’un vingtieme de franc (cinq centimes).
V.
Exceptions en matiere de poids.
II est admis, par mesure d’exception,
que les Etats qui, a cause de leur regime
interieur, ne peuvent adopter le type de
poids decimal gnetrique, out la faculte d’y
substituer Ponce avoir-dupois (28,3405
grammes) en assimilant une once a 20
grammes pour les lettres et deux onces a
50 grammes pour les autres objets, et
d’elever, au besoin, la limite du port
simple des journaux a quatre onces, mais
sous la condition expresse que, dans ce
dernier cas, le port des journaux ne soit
A 48592.
2. In case of alteration in the monetary
system of any one of the countries above-
mentioned or of an important modification
in the value of its money, the Administration
of that country must come to an under
standing with the Swiss Postal Adminis
tration in order to modify the above
equivalents ; it devolves upon this latter
Administration to notify the change to all
the other Offices of the Union through
the medium of the International Bureau.
3. The monetary fractions resulting
either from the complement of the charge
applicable to insufficiently paid correspon
dence, or from the fixing of the charges for
correspondence exchanged with countries
foreign to the Union, or from the com
bination of the Union charges with the
surcharges contemplated by Article 5 of
the Convention, may be rounded by the
Administrations which levy the paj'ments.
But the sum to be added on this account
must in no case exceed the value of one-
twentieth of a franc (five centimes).
V.
Exceptions in the matter of weight.
As an exceptional measure, it is agreed
that States which, by reason of their
internal regulations, are unable to adopt
the decimal metrical system of weight,
have the option of substituting for it the
ounce avoirdupois (28*3465 grammes)
assimilating one ounce to 20 grammes for
letters, and two ounces to 50 grammes for
other articles and of raising, if needful, the
limit of the single rate of postage of news
papers to four ounces, but "under the
express condition that, in the latter case,

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Content

The volume comprises copies of printed correspondence, handwritten correspondence, notes and other papers. This relates to the operation of British Indian post offices in Persia, and in particular in the region known as Arabistan [Ahvāz] by British officials. The file is a direct chronological continuation of File 1912/897 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf. British post offices [also in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. ]’ (IOR/L/PS/10/242). Principal correspondents in the volume include: HM Minister in Tehran (Sir Charles Murray Marling); 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. staff (John Evelyn Shuckburgh; Arthur Hirtzel); the Deputy Chief Political Officer at Basra (Captain Arnold Talbot Wilson); the Chief Political Officer at Basra (Sir Percy Zachariah Cox); and the Officiating 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Major Stuart George Knox).

Subjects covered in the volume include:

  • a printed copy of the Convention of Rome (dated 26 May 1906), created by the Universal Postal Union, incorporating detailed regulations for its execution, in French and English, printed in 1907 by HM Stationery Office (ff 160-224);
  • office notes relating to protests from the Persian Government at the opening of Government of India post offices at Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām] and Charbar [Chābahār], and the anticipated post office at Ahwaz [Ahvāz] (ff 153-159);
  • a copy of a letter from Knox to Sir Walter Beaupré Townley, HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at the Court of Persia, dated 21 June 1914, countering complaints made by the Persian Government about British Indian postal service activities in southern Persia, by pointing out the perceived inadequacies in the Persian postal system (ff 130-133);
  • complaints made by HM Consul at Kerman (Lieutenant-Colonel David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer), of deficiencies in the existing Persian postal service at Kerman. The Consul emphasises insecurities and delays on routes to Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] and Tehran, the inefficiency of staff, and the importance of the service to Kerman’s European community (ff 135-136, ff 77-78);
  • a memorandum written by Wilson to Cox, dated 21 July 1917, giving a detailed account of the prevailing political situation (including Anglo-Persian relations) in Northern Arabistan (ff 41-44);
  • the proposal, put forward by Cox in 1916, to open a British Indian post office at the Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s (APOC) concession at Maidan-i-Naphtum [Meydān-e Naftūn]. It provokes much discussion between British officials in the Gulf, Government of India officials, and officials from the 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. and the Foreign Office, chiefly relating to the likely response of the Persian authorities to such a move, and whether the move could be justified. A useful précis of the differing opinions of officials involved in making the decision can be found at ff 14-18.

Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

Extent and format
1 volume (222 folios)
Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

The subject 897 ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. : British Post Offices) consists of 4 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/242-245. The volumes are divided into 4 parts with each part comprising one volume.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 226; 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. Pagination: an original printed pagination sequence is present between ff 160-224.

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