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File 3839/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: - Incidence of expenditure in - question of revising the agreement of 1900' [‎302r] (616/880)

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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(b) India to bear one-third of the ordinary diplomatic and consular expenditure
^ on the Legation at Tehran and on the Consulate at Bushire.
-(e) 1 he Imperial Covernment. to bear two-thirds of the ordinary diplomatic and
consular expenditure referred to, in (T).
(d) The Imperial Covernment to bear the whole cost of the ordinary diplomatic
and consular expenditure at any consulates in Persia other than those
mentioned in (a) and (6).
(e) India to have complete control of expenditure at the consulates referred to
in (a); the Imperial Covernment to have complete control of expenditure
at those mentioned in (</), although in the ordinary course of business the
one Government may find it desirable to consult the other, or to give
information, as to any important measures taken.
(/) As India is to bear a share of the expenditure on the Legation at Tehran and
on the Consulate at Bushire, the assent of the Government of India to be
obtained to important measures of new expenditure proposed to be incurred
at these places.
(g) No liability to rest on India in respect of political expenditure, as distinguished
from diplomatic and consular expenditure, unless there has been obtained
the previous and express assent to it of the Secretary of State in, Council,
who in such matters would ordinarily consult the Government of India.
10. A revision of the present arrangements in regard to the incidence of
expenditure in Persia, though it will leave us open to a claim for increased
contributions 1 by India towards the diplomatic
and consular expenditure of the Foreign Office
in China and Siam (paras'. (5 and 7 above), will
incidentally relieve us of the loss, amounting to
some G,OOOL a year (half of 12,000Z), arising
out of the circumstances, mainly connected with the Wei by sett lement, which I set
forth in a printed note of Dll (F. 5182/15, attached).
1 China
Siam
At present
£
■ 12,500
P 2,000
Possible ('laim.
£
say, 20,000
say, 10,000
11. As the Government of India point out in para. 12 of their Despatch, the
financial effect of the arrangement they propose in Persia, though less favourable to
India than an all-round one-third and two-thirds arrangement, would represent
an important saving on the present half-and-half arrangement. Mr. Hopkins has
prepared statements (Appendix III.) of ordinary diplomatic and consulate expen
diture in Persia from which the following comparative table may be deduced as to
India’s liability during the years 1913-14 to 1917-18 (the latest for which we have
complete figures) :—
.. M ■
Present System.
Proposed
System.
If India had borne
one-third all round.
1913-14
£ * £ £
41,816 + 6,000 = 47,816
£
38,755
£
27,877
1914-15 -
-
44,542 + 6,000 - 50,542
40,739
29,695
1915-16
-
50,795 + 6,000 = 56,795
43,697
33,864
1916-17 -
-
80,551 + 6,000 = 86,551
61,879
53,701
1917-18
-
75,765 -p 6,000 = 81,765
59,459
59,510
Total - £323,469
244,529
195,647
The fact that the proposed system would have been so much more favourable to
the Imperial Government than a one-third and two-thirds arrangement ought to render
the proposed change from the present system more acceptable to the Treasury.
12. If the arrangements as to incidence of expenditure in Persia are revised
ought opportunity to be taken to alter the present arrangements in regard to certain
consulates elsewhere, the whole cost of which is borne by India (e.g., Muscat,
Bahrein, Kashgar) r
13. With reference to para. 3 of the Government of India’s Despatch one might
observe that the Welby Commission were hardly concerned with the question of the
actual authority that would speak in the name of the “ Government of India,” a
domestic matter as between the Secretary of State and that Government.
14. I agree with the Political Department that there is no good in attempting to
recover from the Treasury any portion of the sums we have paid under arrangements
with them in the past.

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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.

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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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