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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [189r] (382/456)
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.
59
nature directement adresses du
point d’origine au lieu de la
destination nouvelle.
2 ° Les envois regulierement affrancliis
pour leur premier parcours et dont
le complement de taxe afferent au
X. / parcours ulterieur n’a pas ete
acquitte avant leur reexpedition,
sont frappes, suivant leur nature,
par I’Office distributeur, d’une
taxe egale a la difference entre le
prix d’affranchissement deja ac-
quitte et celui qui aurait ete pergu
si les envois avaient ete expedies
primitivement sur leur nouvelle
destination. Le montant de cette
difference doit etre exprime en
francs et centimes, a cote des
timbres-poste, par 1’Office reex-
editeur.
Dans Tun et 1’autre cas, les taxes
prevues ci-dessus restent exigibles du
destinataire alors meme que, par suite de
reexpeditions successives, les envois re-
viennent dans le pays d’origine.
3. Lorsque des objets primitivement
adresses a I’interieur d’un pays de TUnion
et affranchis en numeraire sont reexpedies
a un autre pays, I’Office reexpediteur doit
indiquer, sur 1’objet, le montant, en
monnaie de franc, de la difference entre
la taxe perdue et la taxe Internationale.
4 . Les objets de toute nature mal
diriges sont, sans aucun delai, reexpedies
par la voie la plus prompte sur leur
destination.
5. Les correspondances de toute nature
ordinaires on recommandees, qui, portant
une adresse incomplete ou erronee, sont
renvoyees aux expediteurs pour qu’ils la
completent ou la rectifient, ne sont pas,
quand elles sont remises dans le service
avec une suscription completee ou rectifiee,
considerees comme des correspondances
reexpediees, mais bien comme de nouveaux
envois, et deviennent, par suite, passibles
d’une nouvelle taxe.
xxvm.
Correspondances tombees en rebut.
1 . Les correspondances de toute nature
qui sont tombees en rebut pour quelque
cause, que ce soit, doivent etre renvoyees,
aussitot apres les delais de conservation
voulus par les reglements du pays des
tinataire, et au plus tard dans un delai de
six mois dans les relations ayec les pays
doutre-mer et de deux mois pour les
autres relations, par I’intermediaire des
bureaux d’echange respectifs et en une
addressed directly from the place
of origin to that of the new
destination.
2° Articles regularly prepaid for their
first transmission, on which the
complementary postage pertaining
to the further transmission has
not been paid before their second
despatch, are subjected, according
to their nature, by the delivering
Office to a charge equal to the
difference between the amount of
postage already prepaid and that
which would have been chargeable
if the articles had been despatched
in the first instance to the new
destination. The amount of this
difference must be expressed in
francs and centimes, by the side
of the postage stamps, by the
redirecting Office.
In both cases the charges provided for
above are leviable from the addressees,
even if, owing to successive redirections,
the articles should return to the country
of origin.
3. When correspondence originally
addressed from one part to another of a
country of the Union, and prepaid in
money, is redirected to another country,
the redirecting Office must indicate on
each article the amount, expressed in
francs and centimes, of the difference
between the amount paid and the inter
national rate.
4. Mis-sent correspondence of all kinds
is reforwarded without delay, by the
quickest route, to destination.
5. Correspondence of all kinds, or
dinary or registered, which, being wrongly
or insufficiently addressed, is returned
to the senders in order that they may
rectify or complete the address, is not,
when posted with the direction rectified
or completed, regarded as redirected
correspondence, but as being really fresh
correspondence ; and it is consequently
liable to fresh postage.
XXVIII.
Undelivered correspondence.
1. Correspondence of all kinds which
is not delivered, from whatever cause,
must be returned, as soon as possible after
the period for keeping it required by the
regulations of the country of destination,
and at latest at the expiration of six
months in relations with countries beyond
sea, and of two months in other relations,
through the medium of the respective
Offices of exchange, and in a special
About this item
- 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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