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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [197v] (399/456)
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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76
UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION.
des pays de 1'Union qui ont le franc pour
unite monetaire on qni se sont mises
d’accord sur le taux de conversion de leur
monnaie en francs et centimes metalliques.
Les Administrations qui ont Tinten-
tion de reclamer, pour ce service de
liquidation, le concours du Bureau inter
national, se concertent, a cet elfet, entre
elles et avec ce Bureau.
Malgre son adhesion, chaque Admini
stration conserve le droit d’etablir a son
choix des decomp tes speciaux pour
diverses branches du service et d’en
operer a sa convenance le reglement avec
ses correspondants, sans employer I’inter-
mediaire du Bureau international, auquel,
a teneur de I’alinea qui precede, elle se
borne a indiquer pour quelles branches de
service et pour quels pays elle reclame ses
offices.
Sur la demande des Administrations
interessees, les decomptes telegraphiques
peuvent aussi etre indiques au Bureau
international pour entrer dans la compen
sation des soldes.
Les Administrations qui auront em-
prunte I’intermediaire du Bureau inter
national pour la balance et la liquidation
des decomptes peuvent cesser d’user de
cet intermediaire trois mois apres qu’elles
en auront averti ledit Bureau.
2 . Apres que les comptes particuliers
ont ete debattus et arretes d’un commun
accord, les Administrations debitrices
transmettent aux Administrations credi-
trices, pour chaque nature d’operations,
une reconnaissance, etablie en francs et
centimes, du montant de la balance des
deux comptes particidiers, avec 1’indica-
tion de Fobjet de la creance et de la
periode a laquelle elle se rapporte.
Toutefois, en ce qui concerne Fechange
des mandats, la reconnaissance doit etre
transmise par FOffice debiteur des
Fetablissement de son propre compte
particulier et la reception du compte
particulier de FOffice eorrespondant, sans
attendre qu’il ait ete precede a la verifi
cation de detail. Les differences ulterieu-
rement constatees sont reprises dans le
premier compte a intervenir.
Sauf entente contraire, FAdministra-
tion qui desirerait, pour sa comptabilite
interieure, avoir des comptes generaux,
aurait a les etablir elle-meme et a les
soumettre a Facceptation de FAdmini-
stration correspondante.
Les Administrations peuvent s’entendro
pour pratiquer un autre systeme dans
leurs relations.
Administrations of countries of the Union
which have the franc for their monetary
unit, or which are agreed on the rate of
conversion of their money into francs
and centimes (specie).
The Administrations which intend to
claim for this service of liquidation the
assistance of the International Bureau,
arrange accordingly with each other and
with the Bureau.
Notwithstanding its adhesion, each
Administration retains the right of pre
paring at will special accounts for
different branches of the service, and of
effecting the settlement of them at its
own convenience with the corresponding
Administrations, without employing the
medium of the International Bureau, to
which, according to the tenor of the
preceding paragraph, it merely indicates
for what branches of the service and in
respect of what countries it applies for the
help of the Bureau.
At the request of the Administrations
concerned, telegraph accounts can also be
notified to the International Bureau to be
included in the setting-off of balances.
Administrations which have used the
medium of the International Bureau for
the balancing and liquidation of accounts
may cease to use that medium three
months after giving notice to the said
Bureau to that effect.
2. After the detailed accounts have
been checked and agreed upon, the Debtor
Administrations transmit to the Creditor
Administrations, for each class of opera
tions, an acknowledgment made out in
francs and centimes, of the amount of the
balance] of the two detailed accounts,
indicating the object of the credit and the
period to which it relates.
As regards money order business,
however, the acknowledgment must be
transmitted by the Debtor Office as soon
as it has prepared its own detailed
account, and has received the detailed
account of the corresponding Office,
without waiting for verification of details.
The discrepancies subsequently brought
to light are adjusted in the first account
which offers.
In the absence of any understanding
to the contrary, an Administration
desiring for its own accounting purposes,
to have general accounts, has to prepare
them itself and to submit them to
the corresponding Administration for
acceptance.
Administrations may come to an
understanding for the adoption of another
system in their relations.
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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