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File 2960/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: salaries of HM consular and diplomatic officers' [218r] (430/495)
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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employe's a fixed rate of exchange at krans 55 = £1
(vide p. 10 of the enclosures to the letter of the
Government of India referred to);
So far as the non-gazetted establishments are
concerned - if any such exist - I think that the proposal of
the Foreign Office might be accepted at once, but it might
be suggested that the rate of exchange be fixed not at krans
55 - £1 (the rate given by the Imperial Bank of Persia)
but at krans 375 = Rs. 100, i.e. £1 - 56i krans, in order to
secure uniformity with the action taken by the Government of
India: the attention of the Foreign Office might also
be drawn to the previous case in 1909.
The Foreign Office were not informed in 1909 of the
views of the Government of India regarding the grant of a
concession to the gazetted staff. But the position is worse
now than that considered by the Government of India as
exchange in the five years 1905 - 1909 had not fallen
krans 340 - Rs. 100 (see the table on the last page but one
of the P.W.file 174 below). There is also the action of
the Spanish and Russian Governments to consider. I am
disposed to think that a good case exists for giving a
concession, but before anything is decided it seems
necessary that the Government of India should be consults
in the matter.
(The case of the Indo European Telegraph Department
can be considered after a decision has been reached in this
case and the papers might then be sent to Mr* Barkey.
5.8.16.
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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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