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File 339/1905 ‘Koweit: - Political Agency. Expenditure. Steam Launch’ [58r] (120/368)
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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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.
, London,
12th May 1911.
Political,
No. 37.
To His Excellency the Right Honourable the Governor
General of India in Council.
My Lord,
With reference to your letters in the Foreign Department, noted
in the margin,* forwarding state-
Expenditure at Koweit in ments of expenditure at Koweit in
1909-10. ^ y ear X909-10, I observe that a
sum of Rs. 11,282 is entered for the “ purchase and upkeep” of the
* > T c . n 1 Q a, T launch in that year, being addi-
* No. 5, Foreign, dated 19th January , _ . £
1911 tional presumably to the sum ot
No. 19, Foreign, dated 2nd March 1911. Rg 55 ^9 f or the “ purchase ” of
the launch entered in the statement for 1908-09.
2. In your telegram of 29th lanuary 1909 you reported the final cost
of the launch as Rs. 57,022. 0. 8 ,
t Letter of Treasury to Foreign Office, an( j t } ie Treasury agreed to pay
dated 17th March 1909. (Forwarded to V T , ,i f
Secretary to Government of India, Foreign half of this sum. J I request mat
Department, in letter of Secretary, Political j may b e furnished at an early
Department, No. 19, dated 7th May 1909.) ' . . ,, ,
date with an explanation ot the
increased expenditure now reported. I presume that the whole of the
difference is not attributable to cost oi upkeep.
t
3 . I shall also be glad to receive an explanation of the increase in
the cost of the maintenance of the crew, viz., Rs. 6,556 (Rs. 778 +
Rs. 3,802 + Rs. 1,976) as compared with the sum of Rs. 5,750 shown in
your letter of 20th May 1909, No. 82, Foreign Department.
4. It would be convenient in future if the annual statement of
expenditure at Koweit were appended, as requested in paragraph 4 of
Political Despatch No. 73, of 30th July 1909, to the general annual
statement of expenditure in Persia; and if the procedure employed m
connection with the latter statement of making marginal notes against
items where an explanation appears necessary were adopted.
1 have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship’s most obedient humble Servant,
(Signed) Morley of Blackburn.
10810. 1.970.
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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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- IOR/L/PS/10/69
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- 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
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- Open Government Licence