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File 2960/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: salaries of HM consular and diplomatic officers' [‎139r] (272/495)

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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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Extract from a letter No.3667/14/204 dated
March, 1917, from the Hon'ble Sir P.Z.Cox, K.C.S.I., k.C.I.E
Chief Political Officer, Basra, to the Foreign Secretary to
the Government of India, in the Foreign and Political Dept.
Delhi.
In reply to your Me«o; N 0 .IO 6 O-D dated 15th February,
I have the honour to submit below the proposals called for
therein:-
2. As from November 1st:-
(1) All officials of ’ hatever rank and class drawing
their pay in rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. and receiving less than Rs.400/- per
mensem to draw their entire salary at the rate of hrans 365
per Rs. 100 /- as long as exchange remains below that figure.
( II ) Officials drawing more than Rs.400/- to receive that
amount at the rate of 365 Krans per 100/- and 1/2 the excess
of their pay over Rs.400/- per mensem at the same rate, up
to a total maximum of Rs.1250/- per mensem. This is to say
no Officer should draw at the special rate of exchange, under
the above paras. ( 1 ) and ( 11 ) on more than Rs.1250/- per mensem
(III) Local and Sumptuary allowances in Persia to be drawn
at ^rans 365/- per Rs. 100 /-.
3. 1 have suggested the limit for the full concession at
Rs.400/- instead of Rs.375/- the exact equivalent of £300/-
to simplify calculation etc. and because this sum practically
includes all the lower paid ranks.
in suggesting a maximum of Rs.1250/- per mensem, I
have been guided by the limit fixed (£ 1000 /-. a year) when the
old rupee exchange compensation was granted. There is no
re al analogy because the £ 1000 /- a year in that case was the
portion of one’s salary which one might be expected to spend
home, whereas the portion one wishes to get compensation
or m this case is what one spends out here.
In

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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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