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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [198v] (401/456)
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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78
UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION.
Elies servent de base pour 1’etablisse-
ment de la liquidation de chacune des
Administrations interessees. Dans cette
liquidation doivent figurer:
(а) les sommes afferentes aux decomptes
speciaux portant sur les divers
echanges;
(б) le total des sommes resultant de
tons les decomptes speciaux par
rapport a chacune des Administra
tions interessees;
(c) les totaux des sommes dues a
toutes les Administrations creditrices
pour chaque branche du service,
ainsi que leur total general.
Ce total doit etre egal au total du Doit
qui figure dans la recapitulation.
Au bas de la liquidation, la balance
est etablie entre le total du Doit et le total
de I’Avoir resultant des tableaux adresses
par les Administrations au Bureau inter
national (voir § 3). Le montant net du
Doit on de TAvoir doit etre egal au solde
debiteur ou au solde crediteur porte dans
la balance generale. En outre, la liquida
tion statue sur le mode de liquidation,
c’est-a-dire qu’elle] indique les Admini
strations en faveur desquelles le payement
doit etre effectue par 1’Administration
debi trice.
Les liquidations doivent etre trans-
mises aux Administrations interessees, par
le Bureau international, au plus tard le
22 de chaque mois.
7. Le payement des sommes dues, en
vertu d’une liquidation, par une Admini
stration a une autre Administration, doit
etre effectue aussitot que possible et au
plus tard quinze jours apres reception
de la liquidation par 1’Administration
debitrice. Quant aux autres conditions
de payement, les dispositions du § 1 de
1’article XXXVII precedent font loi. Les
dispositions du § 2 dudit article sont, le
cas echeant, applicables en cas de non-
payement du solde dans le delai fixe.
Les soldes debiteurs ou crediteurs
n’excedant pas 500 francs pen vent etre
reportes a la liquidation du mois suivant,
a la condition toutefois que les Admini
strations interessees soient en rapport
mensuel avec le Bureau international.
II est fait mention de ce report dans les
recapitulations et dans les liquidations
pour les Administrations creditrices et
debitrices. L’Administration debitrice
fait parvenir, le cas echeant, a 1’Admini-
stration creditrice, une reconnaissance de
la somme due, pour etre portee au prochain
tableau.
They serve as the basis for settling the
accounts of each of the Administrations
concerned. In this settlement there should
appear:
(a) The sums relating to the special
accounts concerning the different 'S
exchanges ;
(b) The total of the sums resulting
from all the special accounts with
respect to each of the Administrations
concerned.
(c) The totals of the sums due to all
the Creditor Administrations on
account of each branch of the service,
as well as their general total.
This total should be equal to the total
of the Debit which appears in the summary.
At the foot of the liquidation account,
the balance is prepared between the total
of the Debit and the total of the Credit
resulting from the tables forwarded by
the Administrations to the International
Bureau (see § 3). The net amount of the
Debit or of the Credit should be equal to
the debit balance or to the credit balance
carried into the general balance sheet.
Moreover, the liquidation account deter
mines the manner of settlement, that is
to say, it indicates the Administrations to
which payment must be made by the
Administration indebted.
The liquidation accounts must be trans
mitted to the Administrations interested
by the International Bureau not later than
the 22nd of each month.
7. Payment of the sums due, in virtue
of a liquidation account, from one Ad
ministration to another, must be effected
as soon as possible and at the latest a
fortnight after receipt of the liquidation
account by the debtor Administration.
As regards other conditions of payment
the stipulations of § 1 *of the preceding
Article XXXVII hold good. The stipula
tions of § 2 of the said article are, if the
case arise, applicable in case of non
payment of the balance within the fixed
period.
Debit or credit balances not exceeding
500 francs can be carried forward to the
settlement of the following month, pro
vided, however, that the Administrations
concerned are in monthly communication
with the International Bureau. The
amount brought forward is entered in the
summaries and in the liquidation accounts
for the Creditor and DebtorAdministrations.
The Debtor Administration furnishes, in
such case, to the Creditor Administration
an acknowledgment of the sum due, to be
carried into the next table.
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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