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File 3839/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: - Incidence of expenditure in - question of revising the agreement of 1900' [‎42r] (94/880)

The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 10 Mar 1914-4 Jun 1928. 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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1058 5000 3/26
India
Minute Paper.
Department.
.2959/24.
tie merits of the
tai expenditure in
>-24 have since
i received and the
liar statements
*nded are based on
ie, instead of the
mates on which the
dgn Office based
r calculations*
se figures should
correctly be
000 and £67,000
actively*
;ept apparently
iire / but this is
clear.
This request the Foreign Office again evaded
in their letter of 14th March 1924, and proceeded
to call an interdepartmental conference which duly
4 /
met on the 7th flay 1924. At this meeting the
Foreign Office (and Treasury) made no effort to
dispose of the considerations previously adduced in
correspondence by the Government of India and India
Office; but, instead, sprang on the heating an
entirely new proposal, which was later set forth in
an official letter dated 14th July 1924. The India
Office representatives at the meeting contented'
themselves with reserving their opinion on the new
scheme. : <
This scheme may be summarised as follows:-
f-
x
It assumes that the total expenditure on
Diplomatic and Consular representation in a normal
year on the present system, (1923-24 estimates being
taken for the purpose) would be £138,000, and tint
under the present so-called "half and half" system
of division India would contribute, on adjustment,
£72,000 and the Foreign Office £66,000*
The proposal is that arrangements should be
. 4 ;
made gradually to replace all officers of the Indian
service at Consular posts in Persia by officers of
the Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. service: that the entire responsibility
*
for the maintenance of the posts should be assumed
by the Foreign Office as each is transferred to the
Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Consular service, and that the Government of

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The volume contains papers mostly relating to expenditure incurred in Persia, and the issue of how this expenditure should be divided between the Imperial and Indian Exchequers.

The papers mainly consist of correspondence 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 following: the Foreign Office, the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India, and the Treasury; as well as 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. Minute Papers, Reference Papers, and other 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. papers and notes.

The volume mostly concerns diplomatic and consular expenditure, specifically: the question of revising the existing arrangements under which, following the recommendations of the Welby Commission of 1900, the cost of this expenditure in Persia had been shared roughly equally between the Indian and Imperial Revenues (between the Indian Political Department and the Foreign Office); the proposals of the Foreign Office that Indian Political Department posts in Persia should be transferred to the Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Consular Service, and thus come under the responsibility of the Foreign Office, with the Government of India paying a yearly contribution towards the posts; and the objections of the Government of India to the Foreign Office’s proposals.

The volume also includes papers regarding: the cost of troops from the Indian Establishment employed in Oman and Persia during the First World War; and the projected contribution from Indian Revenues of a moiety of a loan of £2,000,000 to the Persian Government under the ‘Curzon Agreement’ [Anglo-Persian Agreement] of 1919. In addition, it includes some papers relating to expenditure on diplomatic and consular establishments in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. , Muscat and China, as well as Persia.

The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

Extent and format
1 volume (430 folios)
Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

The subject 3839 (Part 1, Persia, and Part 2, China) consists of two volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/626-627. The volumes are divided into two parts, with each part comprising one volume.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 430; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.

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