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File 339/1905 ‘Koweit: - Political Agency. Expenditure. Steam Launch’ [23v] (51/368)
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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Per annum.
Brought forward
Supplies and Services —
Care and repair of
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
, etc. .,
Secret service
Purchase and repair of tents
Medical and Hospital stores ,.
Purchase and repair of boats ,.
Flags and stores ♦.
Contingencies —
Subscription to newspapers
Liveries
Books and publications
Purchase and repair of furniture
Medical and Hospital contingencies
Tour charges
Printing and stationery
Hot and cold weather charges ,.
Judicial contingencies ..
Miscellaneous .. ,.
Durbar
A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family).
Charges —
Cash presents ,.,
Durbar
A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family).
presents
Total 12,544 •
(Allowing for possibilities of economy resulting from the simplification of sys
tem, the total of Rs. 12,544 is reduced to Rs. 12,200 a year.)
(c) It will be observed that your proposal to increase the pay of the Head
Clerk to Rs. 170 a month has not been sanctioned. In the opinion of the Govern
ment of India an incremental pay of Rs. 120—6—50 should be sufficient. W ith
reference to paragraph 4 of Mr. Wood’s letter No. 6, dated the 21st March 1912,
• I am to explain that the Government of India consider it preferable to include
the provision for the Second Clerk in the office allowance.
{d) The Government of India approve of the suggestion that the Bahrain
launch should be used to meet the requirements both of the Bahrain
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
and
of the Bundar Abbas Consulate; the question of providing a separate launch for
the latter station need not, therefore, be further considered. It is left to you to
distribute the contract grant sanctioned to meet the charges on account of the
launch between Bahrain and Bundar Abbas, should you consider desirable to
do so.
(e) These orders render unnecessary any further action with reference to the
proposals contained in your letters Nos. 2064, 2405 and 3115 dated respec
tively the 13th August, 16th September and 10th December 1911.
Koweit.
(a) Separate allotments are sanctioned under
(t) Salary of gazetted officers as at present.
(n) Establishment —
1 Head Clerk on Rs. 120 —5— 150
1 Second Clerk on Rs. 75—5— 100 ..
(Hi) Travelling allowance .. .. .. 300*
♦Fixed grant not to be increased or exceeded without the sanction of the Government of India, Charges
fo be subject to audit under ordinary rules.
the following heads :—
Per mensem. Per annum.
75
Rs. Rs.
7,504
1,200
300
50
750
100
100
2,500
50
160
100
100
600
200
30
200
200
200
1,840
300
400
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- Content
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.
- Extent and format
- 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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- IOR/L/PS/10/69
- Title
- File 339/1905 ‘Koweit: - Political Agency. Expenditure. Steam Launch’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:179v, 181r:181v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence