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File 339/1905 ‘Koweit: - Political Agency. Expenditure. Steam Launch’ [170r] (344/368)
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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Enclosure No. 5.
No. 182 E.-B., dated Fort William, the 16th January 1905 (Confidential).
From—The Assistant Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign
Department,
To —Major P. Z. Cox, C.I.E., Officiating
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
With reference to the correspondence ending with the letter from the
Government of India in the Foreign Department, No. 3936 E.-B., dated the
19th November 1904, I am directed to inform you that, owing to the view that
have been taken by His Majesty’s Government of the character of the appoint
ment of
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 Koweit, and to the likelihood of his being absent
during a portion of each summer, the Government of India have decided that
the local allowance to be attached to the appointment should not exceed
Its. 200 per mensem, and His Majesty’s Secretary of State’s sanction has
accordingly been asked to the same.
2. In view, however, of the difficulties attending a first appointment to
Koweit and the absence of suitable accommodation, the Government of India
have agreed to grant Captain Knox a separate special allowance of Its 200 per
mensem for the first six months of his tenure of the office of
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 Koweit. After the expiry of this period, Captain Knox, and his successors in
the present appointment held by him, will only receive a local allowance of
Its. 200 per mensem.
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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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- 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
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