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Coll 17/31 'Iraq. Posts under Iraqi Govt. filled by British subjects.' [32r] (63/595)
The record is made up of 1 file (292 folios). It was created in 12 Apr 1937-19 Apr 1945. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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Dear Higham,
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V.ould you please refer to your letter of
the 10th November last to Crosthwaite and our
resulting telegram !To. 1)41 of the 12th lovember to
Bagdad, the last paragraph of which dealt with the
question of the appointment of the Civil Engineer-in-
Ohief of the Admiralty as official consultant to the
Basra Port Directorate.
I enclose a copy of a Saving telegram just
received from Bagdad, from which you will see that for
various reasons the Ambassador does not think that it
would be advisable to raise this question at the
moment. In view of the considerations mentioned by
Cornwallis, we also feel that it would be better to
allow the matter to remain in abeyance. You will
note that Chatley is in fact receiving every facility;
and if the present arrangement should prove
unsatisfactory in practice the proposal that the
Engineer-in-Chief should be formally appointed as
consultant could always be reconsidered at a later
stage. In the meantime we feel that we should defer
to the Ambassador’s opinion that it would be imprudent
to raise this matter with the Iraqis at present.
Haviland,/
I am sending copies of this letter to
Reid and Gibson. <?
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INDIA OFFICE
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- Content
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to job vacancies under the Government of Iraq being filled by British subjects. It includes papers concerning the following vacancies:
- Adviser to the Ministry of Economics and Communications.
- Chief Engineer to the Irrigation Department.
- Two Heads of Section and ten Surveyors to be recruited through the Surveyor General of India.
- Judges.
- Director-General of Railways.
- Deputy Director-General of Railways.
- Assistant Engineer for the Iraqi Railways.
- Financial Adviser for the Ministry of Finance.
- Director of the Port of Basra.
- Two experts to carry out a comprehensive survey of Iraq’s mineral resources.
- Expert in criminal investigation.
- Chief Surveyor for major irrigation schemes.
- Forestry expert.
The correspondence largely consists of 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. internal notes, and correspondence and copy correspondence between the following: 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. and 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. and the Government of India External Affairs Department; and the Foreign Office and HM Ambassador to Iraq, Baghdad (Archibald Clark Kerr, Sir Maurice Peterson, Sir Basil Newton, Sir Kinahan Cornwallis).
The file includes a copy of the Government of Iraq ‘Form of Contract for Foreign Officials’ which is printed in both English and Arabic (folios 187 to 194).
The file includes two dividers, which give lists of correspondence references contained in the file by year. These are placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (292 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in 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 297; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-297; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/L/PS/12/2894
- Title
- Coll 17/31 'Iraq. Posts under Iraqi Govt. filled by British subjects.'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:105v, 107r:171v, 173r:186v, 195r:246v, 256r:270v, 272r:292v, 294r:297v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence