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File 339/1905 ‘Koweit: - Political Agency. Expenditure. Steam Launch’ [17r] (38/368)
The record is made up of 1 volume (180 folios). It was created in 1904-1914. It was written in English. 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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No. 107 of 1912.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT.
ESTABLISHMENT.
To
The Most Hon’ble the MARQUIS of CREWE, K.G.,
His Majesty's Secretary of State for India.
Simla, the 19th September 1912.
My Lord Marquis,
In reply to Your Lordship’s despatch No. 48 (Political), dated the
10th May 1912, we have the honour to explain that, before authorising the
provisional allotment of Rs. 6,740 per annum for the maintenance of the
Koweit
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
launch, we caused enquiries to be made as to the circumstances
which necessitated expenditure on this launch on a scale so much higher than
that approved for the maintenance of the Consular launch at Mohammerah.
2. Our enquiries demonstrated that no comparison could safely he
instituted, owing to the variation of prices obtaining in the different localities
and to the dissimilarity of the work which these two launches are required to
perform.
The launch at Mohammerah, for instance, is a flat bottomed river
launch stationed in fresh water and is only required for river trips, while that
at Koweit is a sea-going vessel drawing 7 feet of water stationed in salt water
and required to make comparatively long voyages. Eurther, as the Mohammerah
launch, owing to her unsuitability and defects, has been very little used, there
has been no opportunity to test the sufficiency or otherwise of the allotment
sanctioned for her up-keep.
3. When the Koweit launch was first provided, the sum of Rs. 6,740 which
was allotted for its maintenance was based on the following items :
JRs.
Coal and stores ... ... ••• 4,200
Repairs ... ••• ••• 2,300
Miscellaneous ... ••• ••• 240
At the time it was not contemplated that the vessel would be required to take up
a regular mail service between Koweit and Lao, and, consequently, this estimate
proved insufficient. As the launch ceased to perform this extra duty in May
1911, we proposed in our despatch No. 13 (Establishment), dated the
1st February 1912, to sanction expenditure at the rate originally provided, i.e. t
Rs 6,740. Your Lordship will observe from the enclosure of our despatch,
No. 99 (Secret), dated the 29th August 1912, on the subject of the reduction
of expenditure in the Agencies and Consulates under the Bushire
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
,
that we have now substituted a fixed contract grant of Rs. 12,000 for the
previously existing allotments of Rs. 5,750 and Rs. 6,/40 on account of the
establishment and up-keep of the Koweit
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
launch.
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The main contents of the volume are exchanges of letters about government expenditure on the Kuwait Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , primarily between British officials at the Foreign Office, 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 Treasury in London and Government of India officials at the Foreign Department in Calcutta and Simla. They discuss cost estimates and actual expenditure in relation to the approval of Government of India proposals for the expansion of the cadre of the Indian Political Department in order to fill Consular posts in Persia, 1904-1905 and 1909; the establishment of a new Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Kuwait (spelt Koweit), 1904-1907 and the purchase of the steam launch Lewis Pelly , built at the Government Dockyard in Bombay, for the use of the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Kuwait, 1906-1907, 1909-1912 and 1914. The volume also contains a sea chart of Kuwait Port, by the Marine Survey of India in 1905.
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- 1 volume (180 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 339 (Koweit Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. expenditure: steam launch) consists of one volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 182; 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.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:179v, 181r:181v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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