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Coll 28/3(2) ‘Persia. Financial situation.’ [192r] (383/817)
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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Other means hy which outside agencies may help the Government
are (1) to refrain from accepting for employment any employee of the Go
vernment without the approval of the Ministry or administration in which
such employee is working; and (2) to refrain from paying wages above the
present general wage scale of the country.
Many of the good employees of the Government have left the service
to take outside jobs. Others have threatened to strike because of the insuf
ficiency of their salaries. The Ministry of Finance has endeavored to make
its employees understand that we thoroughly sympathize with them and
are doing everything possible to relieve their situation. I he Ministry of
finance is largely responsible for collecting and controlling the funds out
of which salaries are paid. To increase salaries it is necessary to increase
these funds. If employees leave work or strike, they hurt both the Go
vernment and themselves. 1 hough the conditions under which these employ
ees work are well - nigh intolerable, it is their duty to continue to work
faithfully, efficiently, and honestly. By so doing, they will help us to
help them.
It is impossible to select any one class of employees and give them
help, without at the same time giving help on the same basis to all classes
of employees. Least of all can we give an increase of salary to employees
who have gone on strike against the Government, as a condition of their
going back to work. To do so would be to reward those who have refused
to help the Government and their country at a most critical time. Such
action would encourage strikes among other classes of employees. Those
who strike do not deserve an increase of salary; they deserve instant and
permanent dismissal from the service.
Reorganization.
Since my last report further progress has been made in the reorgan-
iztion of the financial administration.
A Department of Correspondence and Archives has been established,
separate from the Minister s Cabinet. The Department of Information and Sta
tistics has been abolished and the statistical function transferred to the De
partment of Correspondence and Archives. The Mint has been placed under
the Treasury General. The Department of Government and Municipal Pro
perties and the Department of Miscellaneous Goods have been transferred to
the Administration of General Supply. As above stated, a project has
been prepared changing that Administration into a Supply and Service
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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
- 187r:200v, 176r:186v, 162r:175v, 149r:161v, 138r:148v, 126r:137v, 109r:125v, 84r:108v, 68r:83v
- Author
- Bank Melli Iran
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