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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [‎181r] (366/456)

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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.
43
XIII
Indemnite pour la perte d'un envoi
recommande.
Lorsque 1’indemnite due pour la perte
d’un envoi recommande a ete payee par
une Administration pour le compte d’une
autre Administration, rendue responsable,
ceile-ci est tenue d’en rembourser le
montant dans le delai de trois mois apres
avis du payement. Ge remboursement
s’effectue, soit an moyen d’un mandat de
poste on d’une traite, soit en especes ayant
cours dans le pays crediteur. Lorsque le
remboursement de 1’indemnite comporte
des frais, ils sont toujours a la charge de
1’Office debiteur.
XIV.
Avis de reception des objets recommandes.
1. Les envois dont 1’expediteur de-
mande un avis de reception doivent porter
1’annotation tres apparente “Avis de
reception ” ou 1’empreinte d’un timbre
portant: A. R.
2. Ils sont accompagnes d’une formule
conforme ou analogue au modele C ci-
annexe ; cette formule est etablie par le
bureau d’origine ou par tout autre bureau
a designer par 1’Office expediteur etreunie,
au moyen d’un croise de ficelle, a I’objet
auquel elle se rapporte. Si elle ne
parvient pas au bureau de destination,
celui-ci dresse d’office un nouvel avis de
reception.
Les avis de reception doivent etre
formules en frangais ou porter une tra
duction sublineaire en cette langue.
3. lie bureau de destination, .apres
avoir dument rempli la formule C, la ren-
voie sous enveloppe au bureau d’origine.
4. Lorsque 1’expediteur demande un
avis de reception d’un objet recommande
posterieurement au depot de cet objet, le
bureau d’origine reproduit sur une formule
0, prealablement revetue d’un timbre-
poste representant la taxe d’avis de recep
tion, la description tres exacte de I’objet
recommande (nature de 1’objet, bureau
d’origine, date de depot, numero, adresse
complete du destinataire).
Cette formule est attachee a une recla
mation modele H et traitee selon les
prescriptions de 1’article XXX du present
Reglement, a cette exception pres, que, en
cas de distribution reguliere de 1’envoi
auquel 1’avis de reception se rapporte, le
bureau de destination retire la formule E
et renvoie la formule 0, dument remplie,
au bureau d’origine de la maniere prescrite
au § 3 precedent.
XIII.
Indemnity for the Loss of a Registered
Article.
When the indemnity due for the loss
of a registered article has been paid by
one Administration, on behalf of another
Administration which is responsible for
the loss, the latter is bound to repay the
amount within three months after receiving
notice of the payment. This repayment
is effected either by means of a postal
money order or a draft, or in specie current
in the country to which paymeni is due.
When the repayment of the indemnity
involves expenses, they are always borne
by the indebted Office.
XIV.
Advices of Delivery of Registered Articles.
1. Articles for which the sender
requires an advice of delivery must be
marked very clearly with the inscription,
“ Avis de reception,” or be stamped with
the letters A.R.
2. They are accompanied by a form in
accordance with or analogous to the pattern
0 annexed ; this form is made out by the
Office of origin or by any other Office
which the despatching Office may appoint,
and is attached by string tied crosswise to
the article to which it relates. If it does
not reach the Office of destination, the
latter makes one out for itself.
Advices of delivery must be drawn up
in French or must bear a sublineary
translation in that language.
3. The Office of destination, after
having duly filled up form G returns it
under cover to the Office of origin.
4. When the sender applies for an
advice of delivery of a registered article
after the article has been posted, the Office
of origin enters in a form G, after affixing
to it a postage stamp representing the fee
for an advice of delivery, an exact descrip
tion of the registered article (its nature,
Office of origin, date of posting, number,
complete address of the addressee).
This form is attached to a form pattern
II and treated according to the provisions
of Article XXX. of the present Regulations,
with the exception that, in case of the
regular delivery of the article to which the
advice of delivery relates, the Office of
destination withdraws the form H and
returns form G duly completed, to the
Office of origin in the manner prescribed
by the preceding paragraph 3.

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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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