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File 339/1905 ‘Koweit: - Political Agency. Expenditure. Steam Launch’ [‎24v] (53/368)

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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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(Allowing for possibilities of economy resulting from the simplification
of system, the total of Ks. 8,820 is reduced to Rs. 8,500 a year.)
I am to add that the appointment of Second Clerk now sanctioned will be abo
lished, if and when a regular post office is opened in Koweit.
(c) These orders render it unnecessary to reply to your letter No. 2736,
dated the 22 id October 1911.
Kerman.
(a) Separate allotments are sanctioned under th( following heads :—
Per mensem. Per annum.
%
Rs.
Rs.
(?) Salary and allowances of gazetted officers as at present.
(ii) Establishment—
1 Attache and Honorary Vice-Consul Rs. 213-5-4—
320
13-5-4—
(Hi) Charges on account of maintenance of escort—
Establishment
..
2,908
Ration allowance .«
..
1,500
Purchase, feed and keep of animals
• •
1,500
Purchase and repairs of saddlery
• •
210
Total
# #
6,118 or roundly
(tu) Travelling allowance
• •
6,000*
i,ooot
(v) Postage and telegram charges
• •
l,700t
(b) To meet all other charges under the head “ 25—Political,^ an office
allowance of Rs. 9,800 a year is sanctioned based on the following details :—
Per annum.
Establishment —
1 Clerk on Rs. 106-10-8-
House rent
-10-10-8—160 value
146 10 8
10 0 0
Rs.
• •
Menial establishment
Hospital peon A low-ranking infantryman, orderly or assistant (South Asian context).
Sample room allowance
• • • •
• • • •
156 2 3
• % « •
1,880
1,037
153
420
Total
3,490
Supplies, and Services —
Purchase and repair of tents
Care and repairs of Consulate
Secret Service
Medical and Hospital stores
Hire of transport ..
Flags, stores, etc. ..
50
500
300
25
1,500
100
Total .. 2,475
♦Establishment to be entertained on the scale sanctioned from time to time. Total grant not to be increased
or exceeded without the sanction of the Government of India. Charges to be subject to audit under ordinary
rules.
fFixed grant not to be increased or exceeded without the sanction of the Government of India. Charges
to be subject to audit under ordinary rules.

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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)
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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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