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File 2960/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: salaries of HM consular and diplomatic officers' [156r] (306/495)
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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TREASURY CHAMBERS,
15th January, 1917.
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My Lord:-
I have laid "before the Lords Commissioners of his
Majesty 1 s Treasury Sir Eyre Crowe T s letter of the 9th
ultimo (W.242827/16), and Sir Maurice de Bunsen r s letter
of the 2nd instant (W.269500/16), respecting the pro
posed increases of the salaries of diplomatic and
consular officers in hersia.
In reply I am to request you to inform Mr.
Secretary Balfour that, subject to the acceptance by the
Secretary of State for India in Council of one-half of
the enhanced cost as a charge against Indian funds, My
Lords approve the following measures.
1. The increases of the salary of the Minister at
Tehran by one-sixth and of the salaries of the subordin
ate diplomatic and consular staffs in that city by
forty per cent, which have already been sanctioned, to
come into effect from 1st April instead of 1st June last
2. Other consular officers in Persia except those at
Bushire and ohiraz to be granted a similar increase of
salary of forty per cent from the 1st April last.
3. These increases to cease on 2nd November and
%
from that date the salaries of diplomatic and consular
officers throughout Persia except at Bushire and Bhiraz
to he paid as to £300 a year and one half of the excess
over
he Under Secretary of State,
Foreign Office.
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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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- 4r:7v, 9r:64v, 65ar, 65r:226v, 231r:250v
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