Coll 29/50 'Kuwait Agency: clerical staff' [‎62r] (128/224)

From
The Foreign Secretary to tne Government of India>
To
The Under Secretary of State for India
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. , London.
Dated New Delhi, the ^ * November 1953
Creation of the post of Second clerk for the
Kuwait Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and the reduction in the status
of the post of Head clerk, Mohammerah.
Sir
I am directed to forward a copy of the correspondence
Letter from the Hon'ble the Political } noted in the margin
Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ,No.2047 dated C
the 30th September 1933. 0 and to say that
Memorandum to the do No. 5
F.99(9 )-E/33, dated the November 1933. J in the circumstances
explained by the Hon’ble the Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ,
the Government of India have sanctioned, in anticipation
of the approval of His Majesty*s Secretary of State for
India, the creation of a post of Second Clerk, Kuwait
Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , and the reduction of the status of the Head Clerk
at Mohemmerah, with effect from the 1st December 1933. In
view of the present financial stringency, it has not been
possible to accept the Hon*ble the Resident's proposal to
raise the status of the post of Head clerk at Kuwait.
Although the net average additional expenditure amounts
to less than £100 per annum, the extra expenditure
involved in the Kuwait Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. taken by itself exceeds
£100 per annum 'which is beyond the limit upto which the
Government of India are empowered to sanction divisible
expenditure in an^tme Consulate. Technically the
sanction