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Coll 29/40 'Seistan: sale of consulate land' [137r] (273/443)
The record is made up of 1 file (220 folios). It was created in 19 Mar 1931-1 Feb 1941. 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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Minute Paper.
Department.
Please see P.Z. 1308/34 where we asked the
Foreign Office whether they agree that negotiations with
Mohd. Ali Bros, for the sale of Government land at
Seistan should be discontinued. The Foreign Office have
not replied to that letter but in view ofthe time that
has elapsed since it was written, we may, I think,
thoughtthat, assuming the Foreign Office concurred in
the breaking off of negotiations with Mohd. Ali Bros.,
we would then be in a position to sell the whole of the
land (plots A and B) shown in the rough plan annexed to
Lieut.-Col. Daly’s letter at P.Z.1011/35 below /vide
given in para. 3 of his letter, now anticipates some
difficulty in establishing a claim to the whole of the
land and accordingly proposes, in order to avoid the
risk of protracted negotiations and, possibly, a law
suit, that Government should relinquish all claim to
the plot marked ’A’. This would save us from paying
registration tax on this plot and would leave us free to
offer the unencumbered plot ’B* for sale. Lieut.-Col.
Daly proposes in para.5 of his letter that the terms on
which this piece of land may be disposed of should be
left to the Government of India to approve. The
Government of India support his proposals and ask for
telegraphic sanction.
P.Z.2903/32 below it will be seen that we are very much
in the dark regarding the history of this piece of land.
We have little or no idea of what the land is worth
(the figures given in the Government of India’s letter
assume that they concur
At the time that letter was written it was
From Mr. Walton’s note of the 11th June 1932 at
2956 6000 7 34
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The file concerns the sale of land belonging to the Seistan and Kain (Zabul) Consulate, and reports on the flood in Seistan, causing damages to the Vice-Consulate at Zabul.
The file contains:
- proposed sale of land situated outside the compound of Seistan Consulate, on which a building was erected in 1931, by Mohamed Ali & Brothers
- insolvency of Mohamed Ali & Brothers, not paying rent for the building
- negotiations between Mohamed Ali & Brothers, interested in buying the building or receiving a sum on the sale, and the Government of India, interested in selling the building to others
- sketch representing the land leased in 1906 to Mohamed Ali & Brothers (f 80)
- negotiations to sell the land to the Afghan Government, in 1937
- proposal to offer the property to the Iranian Government, in exchange for freehold rights over the land occupied by the Zahedan Vice-Consulate, in 1938
- reports of the 1939-40 floods of the rivers Naurab, Hermand and Shela, surrounding Zabul, with sketch (f 48). The floods affected ground and building of the Zabul Consulate. Damages to bridges, roads and telegraph poles in Seistan are also reported
- report on the river Helmand's changing delta; sketch representing Oscillations of Helmand 1760-1940 (f 25)
- sketch representing Mouth of the Nuriab (f 14).
The file is composed of correspondence between the British Consulate at Seistan and Kain, the British Legation at Tehran, the Foreign Office, the British Consulate at Khorasan, 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, and Mohamed Ali & Brothers.
There is a letter in French, from the Afghan Legation at Tehran.
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- 1 file (220 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 inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 221; 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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- Title
- Coll 29/40 'Seistan: sale of consulate land'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:13v, 15r:24v, 26r:47v, 49r:71v, 73r:98v, 100r:158v, 162r:219v, 220v:221v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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