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File 1311/1905 ‘Persian Gulf: - Post Offices. (Parcel Post Convention)’ [44r] (94/434)
The record is made up of 1 volume (212 folios). It was created in 8 Dec 1902-23 Feb 1911. It was written in English and French. 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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No. 3.
Tehran,
February 24, 1910.
Sir,
With reference to my telegram No. 8 of February 1st, informing you that action
had been suspended in the matter of the proposed arrangement for the Customs
treatment of postal parcels arriving at the British-Indian post offices in the Persian
Gulf, I have the honour to state that on receipt of Despatch No. 94-3209 from
His Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Bushire, enclosing a copy of his Despatch
No. 3208 of Decembc r 19th addressed to the Secretary to the Government of India, Pro >t definitif.
I consulted the Director of Persian Customs regarding the amendments suggested
by Major Trevor.
As regards (a) an addition in the sense suggested has been appended to instroctiona to
( 6 ) Monsieur Mornard foresees that difficulties would be raised by other foreign j
Consular Officers at Bushire, if preferential treatment in the matter of delivering I
parcels were accorded to British exempted officers and were expressly laid down
in the Regulations. In order, however, to meet the wishes expressed by Major
Trevor, Monsieur Mornard is sending instructions to the Customs officers at Bushire
(copy enclosed) to deliver direct parcels addressed to the British officers in question,
and so to consecrate his acceptance of the practice hitherto observed.
(c) As regards book packets, it will be noticed that newspapers, printed
matter and books ” are now expressly included in Article 2, which gi ve ® a
articles which may be distributd without the intervention of the post. Monsieur
Mornard considers that if books arrive in closed packets, as opposed to the ordinary
parcelpost, they must be sent to the Customs House to be verified m the same way
as other exempted articles. He trusts, however, that the addition to Article 2
will meet all requirements.
(d) The words M en bonnes conditions apparentes ” have now been added to
Article 4. This addition has necessitated the inclusion of the subsequent paragraph
relating to the treatment of damaged parcels which forms a further addition to the
same article.
Article I.
&c., &c.,
>. Secretary to the Government of India
in the Foreign Department.
No. 10912.
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The volume contains correspondence and notes by British officials, about their negotiations in the lead up to the Parcel Post Agreement of 1910 with Persia. The main correspondents are the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department at Calcutta and the British Chargé d'Affaires at Tehran. They discuss cooperative arrangements for the examination by Persian Customs officials of postal parcels arriving from India and elsewhere, at British Indian Post Offices in Bushire and other towns along the Persian Coast of the Gulf. Included in the volume are copies of the following documents written in French: the Parcel Post Agreement between Great Britain and Persia of 1910 and Annex of 1911, the Parcel Post Agreement between Austro-Hungary and Turkey of 1870, and several letters by senior Persian Customs officials at Bushire and Tehran.
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- 1 volume (212 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 1311 ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. : post offices: Parcel Post Convention) consists of one volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the leading flyleaf with 1 and terminates at the ending flyleaf with 212; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers.
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