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File 80/1913 Pt 1 'Arabistan: telegraph line' [122r] (248/392)
The record is made up of 1 volume (192 folios). It was created in 25 Jun 1912-27 Nov 1919. 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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13754. 1. 1226. 1000.—9/1912.
When the Treasury in their letter of the 13th
August 1908 (flagged) agreed in principle to the
contribution of a moiety of the cost of the control
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of the Arabist an telegraph lines the figures they
had before them were those given in Sir Henry
Kirk's note of the 7th February 1908 (flagged ).
The use of iron standards which we have since
engaged ourselves to use was not then contemplated
and it uxis intended to rebuild the line to its
original specif icat ion, that' is, with wooden poles
procured locally, light insulators and the old
wire. Since then a period of five years has
elapsed during which the project has more tha.n once
been reconsidered and, it was eventually taken up
in conjunct ion with the renewal of the departmental
concessions in Persia, this ultimately resulted in
the agreement with the Persian Government signed
on the 6th January last P.371/13 below.
The Treasury sanctioned an initial
expenditure of £650 and a recurrent expenditure of
£300 a year for so long as the A rabistan lines
are under British control, we have agreed to
undertake this obligetion up to Jonua ry 1st 1945,
a period of 32 years but we are now committed
to a much larger initial expenditure than was then
contemplated while our recurrent expenditure is
nominally limited to £300 instead of £600 a year
as originally contemplated. ^
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The volume comprises one part discussing the Arabistan telegraph line: correspondence, notes and telegrams regarding repairs to the Line, and arrangements made with the Persian Government regarding their modernization after the destruction of the tract between Bander Rig [Bandar Rig, Iran] and Borasjun [Borazjan, Iran].
The volume contains the 1913 agreements between the Telegraph Department of the British Government and the Persian Minister of Post and Telegraphs for the reorganization of the Arabistan Telegraph Lines and the prolongation of the Telegraph Conventions until 1945, minutes of meetings at the Foreign Office; statements showing yearly payments made or to be made for the Line from 1914 to 1945; and statements showing the estimated and actual cost of its construction.
The volume also contains a map of the Arabistan Telegraph Line (folio 15).
The principal correspondents are the Foreign Office, 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. , the Indo European Telegraph Department, the 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. , and His Majesty's Minister in Tehran.
The volume comprises part 1. This includes a divider which gives the subject and part number, year the subject file was opened, subject heading, and list of correspondence references contained by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (192 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 80 consists of three volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/325-327. The volumes are divided into 4 parts, with parts 1 and 2 comprising the first two volumes, and parts 3 and 4 comprising the third 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 194; 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/10/325
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- File 80/1913 Pt 1 'Arabistan: telegraph line'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:14v, 16r:184r, 185r:193v, 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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