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File 2960/1916 Pt 2 'Persia: Salaries of HM Diplomatic and Consular officers, [etc.]. Concessions.' [283r] (67/241)
The record is made up of 1 item (118 folios). It was created in 31 Dec 1918-22 Jan 1930. 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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Please quo‘e
No. X 5548/602/503
and address—
Mt to any person by name,
bU ! Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.l.
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Krs.lO.
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Sir,
I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to
refer to your letter of the 7th August, 1923 (P.2772)
and to state that His Majesty’s Minister at Tehran has
made application for increases of the wages of the
official servants at His Majesty’s Legation on the
grounds that their present wages do not in many cases
provide the barest subsistence.
2. Sir P. Loraine states that the servants have
repeatedly submitted petitions for the increase of their
wages and that, in order to restore the contented sor - '. ^ce
which he regards as the principal safeguard against
attempts to tamper with their fidelity, he considers it
essential that the increases shown in the enclosed
schedules should be granted as from the 1st ultimo.
3. In the case of the ghulams. Sir P* Loraine
proposes that long and meritorious as distinct from
merely satisfactory service should he rewarded by tne
grant of increments of ten krans a month after six,
twelve and eighteen years' service, such increments
to be awarded and forfeited at His Majesty's Minister's
discretion.
0\ 4. The Secretary oi sua^e
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f ant of increments would prove an incentive to tne
^ft?Mt^aintenance of a high standard of efficiency ana
discipline, but in view of the fact that six of
ghulams
^ Uhder-Secretary of State,
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.
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This part contains correspondence (and a list of the correspondence), mostly consisting of: letters 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. from the Foreign Office, with enclosed letters to the Foreign Office from the Treasury and HM Minister at Tehran; draft replies to the Foreign Office 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. ; 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 correspondence mainly relates to financial concessions for consular officers and Legation servants in Persia [Iran] (due to the low exchange value of the rupee and the high cost of living), and the Secretary of State for India in Council accepting moieties of the costs involved as charges against the Indian Exchequer.
It includes correspondence regarding: the extension of exchange concessions to diplomatic and consular officers in Persia; the permanent revision in rates of pay of servants of HM Legation, Tehran; the concession of a free supply of wheat to the Tehran Legation, and its extension to the inhabitants of the village of Gulhek; an increase in the wages of ghulams, munshis A term used in the Middle East, Persia and South Asia to refer to a secretary, assistant or amanuensis. Munshis were employed in the British administration in the Gulf. and menial staff of the Legation; and the fuel allowance for the Indian sowars (pensioners) serving at the Legation.
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- File 2960/1916 Pt 2 'Persia: Salaries of HM Diplomatic and Consular officers, [etc.]. Concessions.'
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- 251r:256v, 257ar, 257r:265v, 266ar, 266r:300v, 301ar, 301r:369v
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