File 1283/1913 Pt 5 'MESOPOTAMIA TRADE Issue of new Trade Report' [49r] (93/270)
The record is made up of 135 folios. It was created in 24 Nov 1919-27 Oct 1920. 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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PORT OF BASRAH PROCLAMATION 1919 (PROVISIONAL).
Schedule “ N ”,
PILOTAGE.
(i) This Schedule of Pilotage Pees is based on gross tonnage and draught.
The case of vessels not included in this Schedule will be decided by the Port
Director separately as special cases as they may arise.
(ii) Pilotage is compulsory for every vessel entering or leaving the Shatt-
al-Arab, except His Majesty’s ships and native sailing craft.
(in) The rates of pilotage for vessels proceeding to and sailing from—
(a) Abadan.
(b) Muhammarrah.
(c) Basrah.
are as set forth in attached schedule.
(iv) Any draught exceeding the even foot shall be paid for on the next
foot above it, and gross tonnage exceeding 1,000 tons is paid on 1,500 tons and
so for the rest.
(v) Detention Fees per day, Rs. 7-8 payable for every day that a Pilot is
detained beyond the day for which he was originally ordered, due to ship not
starting. Hot payable on account of stoppages due to waiting tide or day
light, once the ship has started.
(vi) Night Fees, per night Rs. 5. This fee is payable if the vessel is
under weigh at any time between sunset and sunrise, without regard to the
time she weighed or anchored.
(vit) Pilot’s Messing. —Second Class Messing to be provided by the ship.
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Part 5 of the volume (folios 3-137) consists almost entirely of two extensive and successive government reports about trade conditions in Mesopotamia, following the end of the First World War (1914-1918) and the development of British commercial interests in the region. The later report, printed at the Government Press, Baghdad in 1920, is entitled Report on the conditions for trade in in Mesopotamia prepared in Office of the Civil Commissioner in Baghdad . It includes a communication map which outlines the region’s road and railway network. The earlier report, printed by the Government of India at Calcutta in 1919, is entitled The Prospects of British Trade in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
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