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File 252/1910 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Lighting and Buoying; the B.I.S.N. Co's buoyage system taken over by Govt of India' [‎19r] (42/891)

The record is made up of 1 volume (444 folios). It was created in 1907-1916. 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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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. , London,
11th August 1911.
Secret,
No. 22.
To His Excellency the Right Honourable the Governor
General of India in Council.
My Lord,
I transmit for the information of Your Excellency’s Government,
T . , . 7 7 , 7 copy of a letter from the British
Liqktmq and buoyaqe of the T c, at • ✓-<
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Indian bteam Navigation Company,
enclosing a claim for 616L 8,s. 10d.,
for the cost of the lighted buoy, with a supply of carbide, that was laid
in the Shatt-el-Arab in accordance with the suggestion originally put
forward in Your Excellency’s telegram of the 16th July 1910. With a
deduction in respect of the carbide, which properly falls under the head
of maintenance, the amount is within the figure of 600L stated in the
letter addressed to the Company on the 26th August 1910, of which
copy is enclosed, and I propose to settle the account on learning from
Your Excellency’s Government (as I hope to do at an early date) that
you have no observations to offer thereon. The amount will be divided
between British and Indian revenues.
2. A further matter for final settlement with the Company is the
charge for the buoys and beacon in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. transferred by
them to Government. It was originally agreed that the sum of 1,000Z.
should be paid for the buoys (15) and beacon (1) named in the enclosed
list, the value of which to the Company was Rs. 32,380. 3. 10, as stated in
the last column but one. Certain of the buoys, however, were afterwards
found to be missing, and the sum of 1,000L is to be reduced in the
proportion borne by their value to the total sum of Rs. 32,380. I
request that I may receive precise information as to the buoys that were
never, in fact, transferred, and the amount by which the sum of 1,000L
should accordingly be reduced. The necessary adjustment will then be
made with the Company, to whom the sum of 1,000L was paid, in
advance, in February last. The information would be most conveni
ently supplied by noting on one of the copies of the statement now
forwarded.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant,
(Signed) Crewe.
S. 93.

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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, reports, plans, photographs, indentures and tables relating to the lighting and buoying of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

The discussion in the volume relates to the transfer of the responsibility for lighting and buoying from the British India Steam Navigation Company to the Government of India, and the planning, costs of construction and the diplomacy associated with this.

Included in the volume (ff 303-310) is the 'Report of a Committee of Enquiry on the Lighting and Buoyages of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. '. Key locations identified for lighting are: Muscat, Little Quoin, Jezirat Tanb, Sheikh Shuaib, Kubbar Island, Ras Al Arz, Fasht ad Dibal.

The volume is part 1 of 2. Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, year the subject file was opened, subject heading, and list of correspondence references contained in that part of the year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 volume (444 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 252 ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. : Lighting and Buoying) consists of two volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/168-169. The volumes are divided into two parts, with each part comprising one volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the loose spine with 444; 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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