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File 2960/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: salaries of HM consular and diplomatic officers' [238r] (470/495)
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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Annex.
Treasury to Foreign Office.
No. 6G20. Treasury Chambers,
g' r 17th April 1909.
I have laid before the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s
Treasury Mr. Langley’s letter of the 25th ultimo (10,466/09), respecting
proposals made by the Government of India as to the payment in Persian
currency at a fixed rate of exchange of the rupee salaries of the non-
gazetted Consular Establishments and of the Telegraph Staff in Persia.
In reply I am to request 3 r ou to inform Sir Edward Grey that while
my Lords regret that they were not consulted before any part of the
proposed scheme was put into execution, they will not refuse to bear
their portion of the loss which has actually been incurred. I am,
however, to suggest, for the consideration of the Secretary of State,
whether a more satisfactory solution of the difficulty would not be found
by fixing salaries in these cases in local currency, rather than in
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
to be converted at a fixed rate. Cases not already settled, and future
cases arising, might then perhaps be dealt with by converting the
salaries at rates of exchange more nearly corresponding to the existing
ratio between the kran and the rupee, provided that those rates are not
more unfavourable to the Exchequer than the late of Kians 3/5 to
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
100 proposed by the Government of India.
I am, &c.,
The Under Secretary of State, G. H. Murray.
Foreign Office.
Enclosure No. 3.
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 Foreign Office.
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.
,
4th June 1909.
In reply to your letter No. 14,702, dated the 27th April 1909
isking for the observations of the Secretary of StMe foi Incia in ounci
is to the proposals of the Lords Commissioners of His Majes \ s leasury
•egarding the manner of payment by the Government o nc la o ie
salaries of the non-gazetted consular establishments and o t e e egrap
staff in Persia, I am directed to
* Dated 4th June 1909. enclose, for the information of the
Secretary of State for Foreign
\lfairs, copy of a Despatch'’-' addressed to the Government of India on the
subject. . , x .
A further communication will be made to \ou when e icpoi
referred to in the penultimate paragraph of the Despatc i as een
received. _ p
j am, tvc.,
The Under Secretary of State, Goblia.
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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