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'Adminisistration [Administration] Reports 1931-1935' [‎183v] (366/416)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (206 folios). It was created in 1932-1936. 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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The Customs Preventive Department have kept a careful watch on
smuggling between Kishm and Bandar Abbas town. Several houses were
searched, and fines amounting to over Rials, 60,000 (about £700) were
collected from those found in possession on contraband articles, although in
some cases the goods were old or the owners produced their Customs receipts.
Secret Agents were employed to report smugglers. Reports were received
from Dubai and Bahrein of Dhows loading contraband cargo for Iranian
Ports.
When the order prohibiting the use of the Pahlevi hat came into
force in July, the Customs had orders to pass European hats without the
necessary import permits. A sum equivalent to the value had to be depo
sited.
In the month of July, a Customs Motor Boat fired at a Dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. landing
passengers between Bustano and Pohl (Clarence Strait) and wounded a
man. The man was brought to Bandar Abbas and received medical treat
ment and recovered.
The Custom notified the public in August that anyone caught smuggling
gold or silver out of the country would be shot, no matter how small a
quantity was smuggled.
There was a great fall in the Customs revenue during the first four
months of the present Iranian year (1314) as the import of Yarn and
cotton piece goods, the chief imports of Bandar Abbas, were forbidden.
The examination of passengers’ luggage has been very strict and heavy
duty is charged on small article.
Aqayi Ali Amini, the e#-mudir of Charbar committed suicide at
Kishm on 19th September and his body was brought to Bandar Abbas for
burial.
The export of cotton was prohibited from the 4th Mehr (27th Septem
ber) and a Company has been formed to deal in cotton. A consignment
of 1800 bales cotton was cleared from the Customs and shipped to Germany.
Owing to this the price of cotton rose from Rials 8,_to Rials 14 per batman.
Five Baluchis suspected of smuggling were arrested and sent to Bandar
Abbas from Sirik in the month of October.
4. Finance Department .—Mirza Mohamed Ali Khan Zand held charge
till 9th December 1935. He was accused of helping Seyed Abbas Dashty
to export more Red Oxide from Hormuz than was shown in the permits and
has been suspended. Aqayi Wazien took over on 10th December 1935.
His Excellency Mirza Ali Akbar Khan Dawar, Minister of Finance
visited Bandar Abbas in February. During his stay he received the local
merchants and traders. He said he was shocked at the filthy and miser
able condition of the town and said improvements should be made at once.
He promised Government aid. He recommended Jhe formation of compa
nies to buy sugar wholesale from Government and to sell it at a fair profit
to the public, ’fihe price of sugar was reduced to Rials 7 a batman for
crystal and Rials 8 a batman for loaf.
The Finance Minister ordered the Customs to hand over the Wharfage
tax (15 dinars per package) to the Municipality, and said the Customs were
to maintain the pier out of their own budget. Rials 9^000 the balance with
the Customs, was transferred to the Municipality. The Finance Minister
said he would try to allot a sum of Rials 100,000 annually for the improve
ment of the condition and sanitation of the town and to establish a proper
Municipal hospital.
He amalgamated the Malieh office with the Customs. This has been
of great benefit to poor villagers who had to deal with the former. With
this amalgamation the extortion of money from the poor has ended.
The Ministry issued telegraphic instructions to the Customs, that, with
effect from the 9th June, the cost of loaf and soft sugar for the interior
(beyond the coastal Area) was to be reduced from Rials 17-50 and 15-45 to
Rials 13-20 and 12-60 respectively.
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The volume includes Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1931 (Simla, Government of India Press: 1932); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1932 (Simla: Government of India Press, 1933); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1933 (Simla: Government of India Press, 1934); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1934 (Simla: Government of India Press, 1935); and Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1935 (New Delhi: Government of India Press, 1936). The Report for 1935 shows some manuscript corrections.

The Administration Reports are divided into chapters relating to the various Agencies, Consulates, and other administrative areas that made up the Bushire Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. . Within the chapters there are sections devoted to reviews by 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. ; lists of senior personnel; foreign representatives; local government; military and marine affairs; movements of Royal Navy ships; aviation; political developments; slavery; trade and commerce; medical reports and sanitation; meteorological reports and statistics; communications; naval matters; the Royal Air Force; notable events; and related information.

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1 volume (206 folios)
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The Reports are bound in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation system in use commences at 1 on the front cover and continues through to 208 on the back cover. The sequence is written in pencil, enclosed in a circle, and appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.

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