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Coll 29/40 'Seistan: sale of consulate land' [203r] (405/443)
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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20
P.853/1907
Extract from the Diary of Major R.L. Kennion, His
Britannic Majesty’s Consul for Seistan and Kain,
No.8, for the week ending the 23rd February 1907.
Having received instructions regarding the final settlement
made with the Persian Government on the question of the
apology and the land, I arranged a meeting with the
Mumtahin, who came round this afternoon. I said that the
apology, not being a personal matter, should be tendered
by the local representative of the Persian Government to
the local representative of His Britannic Majesty’s
Government. A personal apology by Mir Masum Khan, who was
no longer an official of the Persian Government, would
obviously have no significance whatever. The Mumtahin said
that his instructions were that Mir Masum Khan should come,
and if I could not accept his apology, he would telegraph
for further orders from the Persian Government. I requested
him to do so. As regards the land, he said he would now
inform the Persian Government that the amount demanded was
10,000 zars, and would ask instructions as to whether the
price was to be settled here or at Tehran. When I told him
the point had already been decided, he said that he had not
been informed of it. I shall wait a few days to allow the
Mumtahin time to receive a reply to his telegram before again
troubling His Majesty’s Minister.
81 .
Telegram No.89C., dated the 19th (despatched
from Robat on 22nd) March 1907.
From: Major R.L. Kennion, His Britannic Majesty’s Consul
for Seiatan ana Kain, Seistan.
To: The Foreign Secretary, Calcutta.
Please/
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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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- Coll 29/40 'Seistan: sale of consulate land'
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- front, front-i, 2r:13v, 15r:24v, 26r:47v, 49r:71v, 73r:98v, 100r:158v, 162r:219v, 220v:221v, back
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