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File 868/1904 Pt 1 'Consular: Exemption of Foreign Consular Officers from Imperial and Municipal Taxation' [164r] (27/113)
The record is made up of 1 item (53 folios). It was created in 19 Aug 1884-18 Apr 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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BELGRAVE SQUARE.
January 21st, 1905.
My Lord Marquess
As I understand from a report furnished by
the Imperial and Royal Consulate General at Calcutta,
the Municipal Office (License Department) there ap
pears to have claimed for some years from the members
of ihe said Consulate-General the payment of taxes for
carriages, horses and bicycles.
Before approaching Your Excellency with re
gard to this matter, I wished to make certain what
procedure was observed towards British Consular Offi
cers in Austria and Hungary in this respect. The Im
perial and Royal Government to whom I addressed an en
quiry in this connection has now supplied me with the
necessary facts in this question from which I quote
textually the following passage which particularly
bears on the -procedure followed:-
As far as specially concerns the instances
which at present occur in practice, amongst the Royal
Tne Marquess of Lansdowne, K.G.,
& c ., &c., &c . ,
British
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Part 1 concerns exemption of Foreign Consular officers from Imperial and Municipal Taxation. It contains:
- correspondence regarding the claim of the Consul-General for France at Calcutta to exemption from Municipal taxation;
- privileges to the Persian and Turkish Consuls-Generals in the matter of Imperial customs duty and municipal taxation;
- claim of the Imperial German Consul-General at Calcutta to exemption from the payment of Municipal taxes;
- request of the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador that their Consuls in India may be exempted from payment of taxes;
- claim of the United States Consul at Rangoon (Yangon, Myanmar) to exemption from municipal taxation.
The principal correspondents are the Consul-General for France at Calcutta; the Persian Consul-General; the Imperial German Consul-General at Calcutta; the Foreign Department of the Government of India; the Secretary of State for India; the Foreign Office; and the 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. . Some of the letters from Consul-General for France at Calcutta are in French.
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- IOR/L/PS/10/30/1
- Title
- File 868/1904 Pt 1 'Consular: Exemption of Foreign Consular Officers from Imperial and Municipal Taxation'
- Pages
- 151r:182v, 184r:194v, 195v:200v, 204r:206v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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