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Coll 29/27 'Resht: office allowance and minor charges; including establishment of a career consulate' [72r] (143/196)
The record is made up of 1 file (96 folios). It was created in 7 Jan 1922-2 Oct 1946. 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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Jt
In any further communication
on this suijject, please quote
No. E 2993/2367/234
and address—
not to any person by name,
but to—
Foreign Office.
“ The Under-Secretary of State,”
Foreign Office,
s.w.i
London, S.W.I.
9tli x/larch, 3 932
Sir
I am directed by Secretary Sir John Simon
Krans
21,350.
to state, for the information of Secretary Sir Samuel
Hoare.that sanction has been obtained from the Lords
Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury for the
assignment to His Majesty's Vice-Consulate at Resht
of an office allowance at the rate of twenty one
thousand three hundred and fifty krans per annum as
from the 1st January last, subject to the acceptance
of a moiety thereof by the Government of India. Copy
of a despatch from His Majesty's Minister at Tehran, with
its enclosure, on the subject, and a statement prepared
in this Department showing the composition of this
allowance, are transmitted herewith.
2. I am to express the hope that the Government
of India may agree to accept the charge of a moiety
of the revised allowance.
. I am.
Sir
Your obedient Servant
The Under-Secretary of State
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.
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- Content
The file concerns the British Vice Consulate at Resht.
The file covers:
- expenditure of the Vice-Consul
- supply of maps to the Vice-Consul
- office allowance, paid jointly by Government of India and Foreign Office
- lease of Consulate buildings to the Imperial Bank of Persia from January 1934
- death of Munshi A term used in the Middle East, Persia and South Asia to refer to a secretary, assistant or amanuensis. Munshis were employed in the British administration in the Gulf. acting Vice-Consul, and consequent closure of the Vice-Consulate in August 1935
- sale of the property, in 1936
- proposed establishment of a career Consulate in 1942.
The file is composed of correspondence between the Foreign Office, the 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. , the Government of India, the British Vice Consulate at Resht, the British Legation at Tehran, the Stationery Office, the Office of Works, and the Imperial Bank of Persia.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (96 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 98; 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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- IOR/L/PS/12/3584
- Title
- Coll 29/27 'Resht: office allowance and minor charges; including establishment of a career consulate'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:16v, 18r:21v, 23r:59v, 61r:97v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence