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Coll 29/74 'Reorganisation of the Consular Service in Persia: establishment of a rest house at Shiraz; arrangements at Isfahan' [402v] (806/956)
The record is made up of 1 file (475 folios). It was created in 31 Dec 1932-16 Sep 1943. 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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money at the usual rate of Interest (8$ at present). But they
presumed this would be unnecessary in the case of His Hajesty’s
Government.
5. The Bank were informed that it was unlikely that His
Majesty 1 s Government would wish to spend money on improving the
houses at Isfahan and Homaden, and that in any case it would be
desirable that they should first be told exactly how much money
the company would require them to spend. It transpired, however,
that the Company’s architect was resident in Baghdad and as a
special journey for the purpose of drawing up exact plana would
be expensive it was agreed that I should first report the general
scheme to you and ask whether His Majesty’s were prepared to
entertain it in principle.
6. The National Bank also asked what rent His Majesty’s
Government would expect, but it was impossible to give them any
exact information. In each case the rent would need to be
calculated on a double basis; the original, or natural, rent, and
interest and amortisation of capital outlay.
7. As regards Isfahan there is practically no standard of
comparison, although I have heard from a private source that the
National Bank would probably pay seventy
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
a month (I
suppose this means for the property as improved). From the same
source I learn that the property is considered locally to be
worth about twenty five thousand to thirty thousand
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
, but
wil! probably increase in value in the next few years if certain
projected street widening improvements in the neighbourhood are
carried out.
8. As regards Hamadan, the property was let furnished
during the summer of 1932 for four months at three pounds a week,
whilst a local merchant also once offered to lease the property
for five years for nine hundred
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
or ninety pounds a year.
The Company do not need any furniture.
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The file concerns the reorganization of consular establishments in Persia.
The file covers:
- Foreign Office proposals to amalgamate Isfahan and Shiraz Consulates and to raise status of Consular Officer at Ahwaz to Consul-General, 1933
- acquisition of buildings for the Ahwaz Consulate, 1933
- proposal to lease consular properties at Isfahan and Hamadan, 1933
- proposed sale of consular property at Isfahan and disposal of the furniture therein 1934-35
- summer recess of the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. and his staff at the Consular House at Shiraz, 1934-35. A sketch of the Consular House is on f 219
- proposed sale of consular property at Hamadan, 1935
- Foreign Office proposal that HM Consul at Shiraz should rent accommodation at Isfahan during his visits on duty, 1936
- proposed transfer of the Shiraz Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. buildings from the Government of India to HM Government, 1936
- lease of property in Shiraz for use as summer headquarters for Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , 1937-43
- Consular Office and Rest House at Isfahan, includes inventory of furniture (ff 33-44), 1936-39.
The file is composed of correspondence between the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , the British Legation at Tehran, the British Consulate at Isfahan, the British Consulate at Ahwaz, the British Consulate at Shiraz, 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 HM Office of Works, and the Secretary of State for India.
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- 1 file (475 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 477; 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 29/74 'Reorganisation of the Consular Service in Persia: establishment of a rest house at Shiraz; arrangements at Isfahan'
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- front, front-i, 2r, back-i, back, 2v:477v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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