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Coll 28/3(2) ‘Persia. Financial situation.’ [62v] (124/817)
The record is made up of 1 file (407 folios). It was created in 7 Sep 1938-1 Jan 1946. It was written in English and French. 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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more attention will be paid to accounting and reporting: and the Provincial
Directors and Financial Agents will beheld strictly responsible for prompt and
accurate reporting of their operations
Cerals and Bread
The generally favorable prospects for an adequate bread supply tor
Iran continue. Harvest is completed in the Southern Provinces and is preced
ing in the Central regions. In the Western and Northern areas it is just
beginning! but the crop is sufficiently matured everywhere to give assurance
of a total yield adequate for the needs of the nation. In a few areas late season
developments resulted in yield somewhat smaller than had bren expected, but
in other areas favorable factors have produced crops exceeding expectations
The crop in the North is exceptionally good* and there is every expectation
of its being as large or larger than the unusual crop of last year.
Parts of Shiraz and Khuzistan suffered an almost complete crop failure.
Fortunately the crop and grain stock position throughout the nation is such
chat famine conditions will be averted. Grain in considerable quantity is being
transported to Bushire, and movement of grain into the crop failure areas
: will continue throughout the year. Bread will not be as plentiful in these re
gions as would be the case if there had been an adequate local crop. It will
consist largely of barley! but the present system of grain control does permit
the avoidance of famine conditions. The people of these unfortunate areas
need have no fears concerning the continuance of an adequate, although not
lavish, supply of bread. It is fortunate that the grain supplies of the nation
are marshalled in such a way as to prevent what in other times would have
been tragic local famine.
It is possible that grain will also have to be transported into parts of
Khuzistan later in the year. Arrangements have already been made to supply
seed grain for this area. It is possible that as much as 2,500 tons of seed
will be needed for the next year’s sowing. Plans have been made to have this
amount available if required.
Activities in connection with gram collection from the present crop are
continuing throughout the country. Village surveys are being made, and stip
ulations are being secured from land owners in all regions No. unusual
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Papers reporting on the financial situation in Iran, sent by staff at the British Legation at Tehran (Horace James Seymour; Reader William Bullard) to the Foreign Office, London. The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/3 ‘Persia. Financial situation’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3394).
The file includes:
- Covering letters enclosing copies of the monthly Bulletin , produced by the Bank Melli Iran (also referred to as the Mellié Iran Bank, and Banque Mellié Iran). The copies of Bulletin are not included in the file (although some front covers do survive), however the covering letters give short summaries of their lead articles.
- Details and estimates for Iran’s annual budgets, with numerous statistical tables.
- Correspondence dated December 1939 to February 1940 relating to irrevocable documentary confirmed credits (irrevocable letters of credit) opened by Bank Melli Iran through banks in India (ff 356-361).
- Copies of laws passed by the Iranian Parliament, including a law relating to war credits and treasury bills (in French, f 334), a Law for the Prevention of Hoarding (ff 325-329) and an Income Tax Law (ff 262-271).
- Correspondence and budget reports dated 1943-1944, produced during the takeover of the administration of Iran’s Finance Ministry by a mission from the United States, led by Arthur Chester Millspaugh.
At the front of the file (ff 4-200) are fourteen monthly reports of the Administrator General of the Finances of Iran (Millspaugh), produced according to the Solar Hijri calender, and dating from Ordibehesht 1322 (equivalent to the Gregorian calendar date of 22 April to 22 May 1943) to Mehr 1323 (23 September to 22 October 1944). The reports, which also contain lists of staff of the Iranian Ministry of Finance and its connected organisations, summarise Iranian finances. Many of the reports contain a map of Iran (for example, folio 185), showing borders, roads and railways, major towns and cities, and districts, which are numbered 1 to 10.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (407 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file. The file’s correspondence begins at folio 202 and ends at folio 407. Printed reports occupy the front portion of the file (with an enclosing note, ff 4-201), and are also arranged in reverse chronological order.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 408; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/3396
- Title
- Coll 28/3(2) ‘Persia. Financial situation.’
- Pages
- 56r:67v, 38r:55v, 26r:37v, 16r:25v, 4r:15v
- Author
- Millspaugh, Arthur Chester
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