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File 2960/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: salaries of HM consular and diplomatic officers' [108r] (210/495)
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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Jutip, 1917.
17
my ix>ra #
f-Ka 7 ) ln Tep1 ^ r< * Gruhaa'a lettera of the
2nd ultimo and 21at instant (W. 05441/17 raid /. 116673/17),
1 arn directed by the J^rds Commissi oners of His ..ajeaty'a
Treasury to request you to inform the decretory of jtite .
that, aubject to the prior consent of the decret ory of
jfvQte for India in Council to charge a moiety of the extra
expenditure agai?iot Indian funds. They are willing that,
as from the iat April last, office allowances assigned to
itis . ajeaty f a Conaulatos in leraia should be paid in Krana
at the rate of 55 to the pound sterling so long as the
arrangement for the payment in currency of part of the
salaries of Diplomatic and Consular officers in hersia
remains in force.
I y Lords concur in the proposal that further
information should be obtained as to the exact deficits in
lyid/17. As the decretory of State observes, Sir C.
Lariin^s telegram Ho* 201 does not give the period to
which his figures apply. Furthermore, it does not give
the actual lessee but *the losses incurred throu^i fallacy
in exchange alone": and the last part of the second
sentence is not intelligible in its present form, having
presumably been mutilated in transmission.
I am. My Lard f
xour obedimt Servant,
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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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- File 2960/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: salaries of HM consular and diplomatic officers'
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- 4r:7v, 9r:64v, 65ar, 65r:226v, 231r:250v
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