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File 339/1905 ‘Koweit: - Political Agency. Expenditure. Steam Launch’ [150r] (304/368)
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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Tin's increase, it will be obseryed, includes the proposed appointment
of second Assistant to the Resident in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
and also the seven
appointments in Persia and in the Gulf already existing, but whose
permanent addition to the cadre has not hitherto been effected, namely, the
Consulates at Kermanshah, Turbat*i-Haidari, and Bunder Abbas, the Vice-
Consulate at Ahwaz, the Assistant to the Consul in Scistan and the Political
Agencies at Koweit and Bahrein.
The officers holding these seven existing posts at present draw the pay of
their grade; in order to provide for them in the revised scheme, we have
treated them as being—
1 Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
, 4th class, at Rs. 1,200
4 Assistant Political Agencies, 1st class, at Rs. 900
1 ,, „ t) 2nd „ at ,, 700...
2 „ „ „ 3rd „ at „ 500...
Rs.
... = 1,200
... =3,600
... = 700
... = 1,000
Total ... 6,500
The following local allowances are also drawn by the incumbents of these
posts-
Rs.
(a) Kermanshah
• • • • • •
200
(J) Ahwaz
• ••
...
200
(c) Turbat-i-IIaidari ...
• •• • • •
200
(^7) Seistan
• • •
••• •••
100
(e) Bunder Abbas
...
200
(f) Koweit
...
200
(y) Bahrein
...
...
200
Total ...
1,300
Beducting the cost of these seven existing appointments [Rs. 6,500 plus
(exchange compensation allowance at 6J % on 6,500) 406 plus local allowance
Rs. 1.300=Rs. b,206, the total increase of expenditure involved in our proposals
is reduced to Rs. 30,241—8,206] Rs. 22,035 a month.
We venture to hope that you will regard this increase as justified by the
circumstances of the case. The wide enlargement of the area over which the
work of the Department now extends, the increasing reponsibilities thereby
entailed, and the positive necessity of attracting the very best men whom \ve
can procure to the ranks of the Political Service, are, in our opinion, conclusive
reasons for an amelioration of conditions that no longer respond to the needs
of the time. Our present proposals are the result of more than four years,
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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.
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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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- 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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