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File 3839/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: - Incidence of expenditure in - question of revising the agreement of 1900' [409r] (834/880)
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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liidia Office to Treasury.
F. 3044
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.
,
Sir, 27tii July 49J 6.
I am directed to reply as follows to Sir Robert Chalmers’ letter
dated 14th March 1916, No. 6128, regarding the incidence of cost of troops
from the Indian establishment employed in Oman and Persia during the
war:—
Alternative suggestions were made by the Treasury, viz
(a) that Indian revenues should for the time being bear the whole
charges of these troops, leaving the question of ultimate incidence
to be settled hereafter ;
(b) that, as was agreed in the letter from this Office dated 19th April
1916, No. F. 2104 regarding troops from the Indian establishment
employed at Aden, India should bear all the ordinary and half the
extraordinary charges.
Mr. Chamberlain would have been glad to be able to agree with one or
other of the Lords Commissioners’ proposals for a settlement of this question,
which is of no great financial importance ; but he is bound by the terms of
Section 22 of the Government of India Act, 1915, 5 & 6 Geo. V., c. 61
(corresponding Section 55 of the Act of 1858, 21 & 22 Viet., c. 106).
The section prohibits the application of the revenues of India, save with
the consent of both Houses of Parliament, to defray the cost of military
operations carried on. beyond the external frontiers of Plis Majesty’s Indian
possessions by troops from the Indian Establishment. The only consent
given in pursuance of the section in relation to troops employed in Oman
and Persia is contained in the Resolutions passed on 26th November 1914,
authorising the payment from Indian revenues of the ordinary (but no other)
charges of troops despatched out of India for service in the war. This
limitation does not apply to the troops at Aden, which is not beyond the
external frontier of His Majesty’s Indian Possessions ; but it clearly applies
to those now under discussion^ Mr. Chamberlain is therefore compelled to
press for the acceptance of tire proposal in the letter from this Office of
20th January 1916, No. F. 5722. He hopes that their Lordships will see
their way to agree to it. On hearing from them to this effect, he will
arrange with the Army Council (to whose Department the matter seems to
belong) a detailed scheme of adjustment.
88 " I have, &c.
Lionel Abrahams.
The Secretary, Treasury.
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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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- File 3839/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: - Incidence of expenditure in - question of revising the agreement of 1900'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:36v, 37v:54v, 55v:101v, 105r:118v, 120r:124v, 127r:129v, 135r:135v, 139r:160v, 162r:416v, 417ar:417av, 417r:431v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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