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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [198r] (400/456)
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.
'77
3. Cliaque Administration adresse
mensuellement ou trimestriellement, si des
circonstances speciales le rendent desi
rable, au Bureau international, un tableau
indiquant son Avoir du chef des decomptes
particuliers, ainsi que le total des sommes
dont elle est creditrice envers chacune
des Administrations contractantes ; chaque
creance figurant dans ce tableau doit etre
justifiee par une reconnaissance de 1’Office
debiteur.
Ce tableau doit parvenir au Bureau
international le 19 de chaque mois ou du
premier mois de chaque trimestre au plus
tard, sous peine de n’etre compris que
dans la liquidation du mois ou du tri
mestre suivant.
4. Le Bureau international constate,
en rapprochant les reconnaissances, si
les tableaux sont exacts. Toute rectifica
tion necessaire est notifiee aux Offices
interesses.
Le Doit de chaque Administration
envers une autre est reporte dans un
tableau r6capitulatif; afin d’etablir le total
dont chaque Administration est debitrice,
il suffit d’additionner les diverses colonnes
de ce tableau recapitulatif.
5. Le Bureau international reunit les
tableaux et les recapitulations en une
balance generate indiquant:
(a) le total du Doit et de 1’Avoir de
chaque Administration ;
(b) le solde debiteur ou le solde cre-
diteur de chaque Administration,
representant la difference entre le
total du Doit et le total de 1’Avoir;
(c) les sommes a payer par une partie
des membres de T Union a une Ad
ministration, ou reciproquement les
sommes a payer par cette derniere
a 1’autre partie.
Les totaux des deux categories de
soldes sous (a) et (b) doivent necessaire-
ment etre egaux.
On pourvoira autant que possible a ce
que chaque Administration n’ait a effectuer,
pour se liberer, qu’un ou deux payements
distincts.
Toutefois, FAdministration qui se trouve
habituellerpent a decouvert vis-a-vis d’une
autre Administration pour une somme
superieure a 50,000 francs a le droit de
reclamer des acomptes.
Ces acomptes sont inscrits, tant par
1’Administration creditrice que par 1’Ad
ministration debitrice, au bas des tableaux
a adresser au Bureau International (voir
§3).
G. Les reconnaissances (voir § 3) trans-
mises au Bureau international avec les
tableaux sont classees par Administration.
3. Each Administration addresses
monthly or quarterly, if special circum
stances render it desirable, to the Inter
national Bureau a table showing the total
Credit due to it on the individual
accounts, as well as the total of the sums
which are due to it from each of the con
tracting Administrations; each credit
appearing in this table must be substan
tiated by an acknowledgment from the
indebted Office.
This table should reach the Interna
tional Bureau not later than the 19th of
each month or of the first month of each
quarter, otherwise its liquidation is liable
to be deferred until the month or the
quarter following.
4. The International Bureau ascertains,
by comparing the acknowledgments, if the
tables are correct. Every correction that
is necessary is notified to the Offices
concerned.
The Debit of each Administration to
another is carried forward into a summary ;
and in order to arrive at the total amount
owing by each Administration, it suffices
to add up the different columns of this
summary.
5. The International Bureau combines
the tables and the summaries in one general
balance sheet showing:
(а) The total of the Debit and of the
Credit of each Administration ;
(б) The balance against or in favour 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 some of
the members of the Union to a
single Administration, or, recipro
cally, the sums to be paid by the
latter to the former.
The totals of the two categories of
balances under a and b must of necessity
be equal.
It shall be arranged, as far as possible,
that each Administration, in order to
liquidate its debts, shall have to make
only one or two distinct payments.
Nevertheless, an Administration which
habitually finds a sum exceeding 50,000
francs due to it from another Administra
tion has the right to claim remittances on
account.
These remittances on account are
entered, both by the creditor Administra
tion and by the debtor Administration,
at the foot of the tables to be forwarded
to the International Bureau (see § 3).
6. The acknowledgments (see § 3)
transmitted to the International Bureau
with the tables are classified according to
the different Administrations.
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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