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File 2960/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: salaries of HM consular and diplomatic officers' [‎107r] (208/495)

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The record is made up of 1 item (250 folios). It was created in 3 Dec 1908-5 Dec 1918. 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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on the subject, please quote
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The Under-Secretary of State,
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July 6th, 1917.
Sir:-
With reference to ray letter of the 22nd
ultimo, enclosing a copy of a telegram No.201 of
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June 14th from His Majesty's Minister at Tehran,
relative to the payment of Office Allowances in
Persia, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Balfour
to transmit to you, herewith, the accompanying
copy of a letter from the Treasury sanctioning
the payment of these allowances at the rate of
Fifty five brans to the pound, so long as the
arrangement for the payment in currency of part
of the salaries of the diplomatic and consular
officers in Persia remains in force.
As Mr. Secretary Chamberlain will be aware,
this arrangement which was to have terminated on
the 30th ultimo has now been extended for a
further period of six months.
Mr. Balfour is requesting Sir C. Marling to
furnish further particulars as to the deficit for
the financial year 1916-17, but he would be glad
meanvffiile to learn whether Mr. Chamberlain would
be prepared to recomnend his Council to concur
in the proposed arrangement in order that it may
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The under Secretary of State
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. .
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This part contains correspondence relating to the salaries of HM consular and diplomatic officers, mainly those employed in Persia.

The correspondence mostly consists of: letters from the Foreign Office to 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. , including enclosed Foreign Office correspondence; draft letters from 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. to the Foreign Office; correspondence by telegram between 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 Department of the Government of India; and internal 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. correspondence. The enclosed correspondence in letters from the Foreign Office largely consists of correspondence between the Foreign Office and the Treasury, and between the Foreign Office and HM Minister, Tehran.

The correspondence mostly relates to the payment of exchange compensation allowance or temporary salary increases, to HM Legation Tehran, and to diplomatic and consular staff in Persia generally (due to the high prices and the low rate of exchange caused by the First World War), and the Secretary of State for India in Council accepting a moiety of the cost as a charge on the Indian Exchequer. The file also includes some correspondence relating to the extension of exchange concessions to Maskat [Muscat], Bahrein [Bahrain] and Shargah [Sharjah].

Most of the correspondence dates from 1916 to 1918, but the file also includes copies of correspondence from December 1908 to June 1909, regarding the payment in Persian currency at a fixed rate of exchange of the rupee salaries of non-gazetted consular establishments and of the telegraph staff in Persia (folios 236 to 250).

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