Coll 28/3(2) ‘Persia. Financial situation.’ [‎22r] (43/817)

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1 to R| S . 19,380,996.95
7,340.60 during the
5 > or 12 percent. In-
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w hich, together
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show an increase
Mr. Pirnia, the Director of the Department of Oil, Concessions and Mines,
was in Pahlavi at the end of the month to take part in discussions concerning the
rights of private fishermen in ihe Fishery Company concessions area. Mr. Barimi
was sent to the Lar river at the request of the Department of Agriculture to in-
_vestigate the fishing situation there.
As a result of an audit of the accounts of the Fishery Company for the years
1941, 19^2 and 1943, the Government’s cLims against the Company have been
fixed at RIs. 3,323,432.05.
As a result of negotiations with the British military authorities a sum of RIs.
600,000.00 has been collected from their contractors as 5 per cent tax on surface
minerals.
The following mines were leased during the month:
L ocality Kind Length of Lease
Annual Rental
Momenabad Fullers Earth
Dowshan Teppeh Limestone
Soltan Abad Salt
Bam Salt
3 years
3 years
10 years
1 year
7,050.00
176,66o.00
5^0,000.00
15.704.00
Bids were also advertized during the month for the salt mines at Soldooz and
Rezaieh.
Financial Position
The Treasurer General reports that the cash situation of the Treasury was on
the whole easier during the month of SHahrivar.
Ordinary receipts during the first five months of 1323 amounted to 1,,69,946.000
rials, compared with 1,475,327,000 rials for the corresponding period of 13C2, a
decrease of 2i per cent. Commercial receipts during the same period were, in lo23,
1.910.988.000 rials and, in i3z2, 1,^27,286.000 rials, representing an increase during
the present year of 56 per cent. During this period, total receipts in 1323 were
3.080.934.000 rials, and in 13^2 were ^,702,613,000 rials, an increase of 378,32 1 ,000
rials.
Ordinary expenditure during the five-month period amounted to 1,317,263,000
rials in 1^23. This figure compares with 1,142,316,000 rials in the corresponding
period of 1322. Commercial expenditure during this peiiod was 1,866,832,000 rials
in and 1,388,876,000 in 1 j 22. Total expenditure during this period in 1323
amounted to 3,184,095,000 rials and in 132^ to 2,531,1^2,000 rials.
The above figures show a deficit on 31 Mordad 1323 amounting to 103,161,000
rials, compared with a surplus of 17 1 ,4/1,000 on the same date last year.