File 868/1904 Pt 1 'Consular: Exemption of Foreign Consular Officers from Imperial and Municipal Taxation'

Content

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.

Extent and format

1 item (53 folios)

It is part of

File 868/1904 Pt 1-2 'Consular'

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/30

Written in

English and French in Latin script

Type

Archival item

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/10/30/1

Former external reference(s)

P 868/1904 Pt 1

History of this record

Date(s)

19 Aug 1884-18 Apr 1911 (CE, Gregorian)

People & organisations

French Consul-General, CalcuttaPersian Consul General, India

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