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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [‎194v] (393/456)

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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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70
UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION.
8. A la fin du premier trimestre de
Fannee 1909 et de chaque annee suivante,
le Bureau international reunit, dans un
decompte annuel des frais de transit, les
releves qui lui sont parvenus jusque-la.
Ce decompte indique:
(а) Le total du Doit et de FAvoir de
cliaque Administration ;
(б) Le solde debiteur ou le solde credi-
teur decliaque Administration repre-
sentant la difference entre le total du
Doit et le total de FAvoir ;
(c) Les sommes a payer par les
Administrations debitrices ;
(d) Les sommes a receyoir par les
Administrations creditrices.
Les totaux des deux categories des
soldes sous les lettres (a) a (d) doivent
necessairement etre egaux.
Le Bureau international pourvoira a
ce que le nombre des payements a effectuer
par les Administrations debitrices soit
restreint dans la mesure du possible.
9. Les decomptes annuels doivent etre
transmis aux Administrations de F Union
par le Bureau international, dans le plus
bref delai possible.
XXXVII.
Liquidation des frais de transit.
1. Le solde annuel resultant du
decompte du Bureau international est
paye par FOffice debiteur a FOffice credi-
teur an moyen de traites. Si F Office
crediteur a le franc pour unite mone-
taire, les traites sont tirees en francs
effectifs sur une place du pays crediteur
an gre de FOffice debiteur. Si FOffice
crediteur n’a pas le franc pour unite
monetaire, les traites sont tirees au gre de
FOffice debiteur soit en francs effectifs sur
Paris ou sur une place du pays crediteur,
soit dans la monnaie du pays crediteur et
sur une place de ce pays ; dans ce dernier
cas, les Offices interesses s’entendent sur
la maniere de proceder et, le cas echeant,
sur le taux de conversion du solde du en
monnaie mctallique du pays crediteur.
Les frais de payement sont supportes par
FOffice debiteur.
2. Le payement du solde annuel doit
etre effectue dans le plus bref delai possible,
et, an plus tard, avant Fexpiration d’un
delai de 3 mois apres reception du
decompte pour les pays d’Europe et de
4 mois pour les autres pays. Passe ce delai,
les sommes dues par un Office a un autre
Office sont productives d’interets, a raison
de 5 pour cent Fan et a dater du jour
d’expiration dudit delai.
8. At the end of the first quarter of
the year 1909 and of each following year,
the International Bureau combines in an
annual liquidation account of transit
charges the statements which have reached
it up to that time. This account shows :
(a) The total Debit and Credit of each
Administration :
(b) The debit balance or the credit
balance of each Administration,
representing the difference between
the total of the Debit and the total
of the Credit;
(c) The sums to be paid by the Debtor
Administrations ;
(d) The smns to be received by the
Creditor Administrations.
The totals of the two classes of balances
under the letters (a) to (d) must necessarily
be equal.
The International Bureau shall arrange
for the number of payments to be made
by the Debtor Administrations to be
reduced so far as practicable.
9. The annual liquidation accounts are
to be forwarded by the International
Bureau to the Administrations of the Union
as early as possible.
XXXVII.
Settlement of transit charges.
1. The annual balance resulting from
the liquidation account of the International
Bureau is paid by the Debtor Office to
the Creditor Office by means of drafts.
If the Creditor Office has the franc for
its monetary unit, the drafts are drawn
in effective francs on a place in the
Creditor country at the option of the
Debtor Office. If the Creditor Office has
not the franc for its monetary unit, the
drafts are drawn at the option of the
Debtor Office either in hard cash (francs)
on Paris or on a place in the Creditor
country or else in the money of the Creditor
country and on a place in that country;
in the latter case the Offices interested
agree upon the course to be followed and,
if necessary, on the rate of conversion of
the balance due into the metallic currency
of the Creditor country. The costs of
payment are borne by the Debtor Office.
2. The payment of the annual balance
must be made with as little delay as
possible and at latest before the expiration
of a period of 3 months after the receipt
of the liquidation account in the case of
countries in Europe and of 4 months in
the case of other countries. If this period
is exceeded the sums due by one Office to
another Office are chargeable with interest,
at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, from
the date of the expiration of the period of
grace mentioned.

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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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