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Coll 28/3(2) ‘Persia. Financial situation.’ [197r] (393/817)
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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(b) The commodities or merchandise covered by each order
or purchase for importation into IRAN. Copies of the re-
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levant
A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
commercial invoices or other documents shall be
submitted with each declaration.
5) All C lass II commodities or merchndise now in customs warehouse
or hereafter imported into IRAN, except as provided in paragraph 3, not
owned by an importer licensed under paragraph 1 of this regulation, shall
as of the effective date of this regulation become the property of the Go
vernment and subject to the control of the Section of Price Stabilization.
The Section of Price Stabilization will compensate the owners of these
commodities or merchandise, as their interests may appear, according
to the following formula:
(a) The amount contracted to be paid to the seller, as evi
denced by acceptable commercial documents plus
(b) Freight, insurance, and handling charges paid by the
owner, as evidenced by acceptable commercial docu
ments and plus
(c) Five percent of the total of (a) and (b).
(d) Due allowance for damage, deterioration in quality, or
diminution in quantity.
6) Any commodities or merchandise now in customs warehouse or
hereafter imported into IRAN, except as provided in paragraphs 2 and
3, with respect to which declarations and documents are not submitted to
the Customs Administration as provided in paragraph 4, shall after the
expiration of 30 days after the effective date of this act, become the pro
perty of the Government and the Class 11 commodities or merchandise
shall be in the control of the Section of Price Stabilization and all other
commodities or merchandise shall be in the control of the Customs Admin
istration.
7) No imported commodities or merchandise will be released by the
Customs Administration except in accordance with the provisions of this
Regulation.
8) The publication of this Regulation will constitute the announcement
provided for in Note 2 of Article 1 of the Law of 13 Ordibehesht, 1322.
9) This Regulation is effective from 1 Khordad, 1322.
Administrator General of
the Finances.
k. C. Millspaugh
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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