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File 3839/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: - Incidence of expenditure in - question of revising the agreement of 1900' [‎425r] (868/880)

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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Expendituie in Persia and 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. .
Question of revision of Agreement of 1900 with Foreign Office.
1. Extract from letter from 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 of 19th March 1910
(Pol. 268).
In view of the large and increasing adjustments in favour of this Office
winch are now necessary m connection with the annual statements of
diplomatic and considar expenditure in Persia, the continuance of an annual
payment o£ 4,08/L 10 s. from Indian to Imperial Revenues in advance of the
adjustment (two years later), based on the actual expenditure of the two
Governments, does not appear to be any longer appropriate, and I am to
snggest foi 8 u E. Grey s consideration that it should be abandoned.
I am, &c.,
R. Ritchie.
2. Extract from letter from Foreign Office to 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. , dated 3rd May 1910.
2. With reference to the concluding paragraph of your letter, I am to
observe that it would, seem most convenient to regard the payment made in
any year as the contribution in respect of that year, although the amount is
based on the actual expenditure of the last year but one. If, however, it is
regarded merely as a settlement of accounts of previous years, 1 am to point
out that the sum of 4,087L 10 s. is not a contribution by India solely on
account of Persia, 487b 10s., being in fact, the amount paid for that service,
as will be seen from the letter from this Office to the Treasury of August
11 th, 1900, which was communicated to you by the Treasury on September
11th, 1900.
3. Moreover, it is not certain that the present excess of expenditure by
India will continue ; Turbat-i-Haidari has been reduced, the exchange of
Kermanshah and Mohammerah involves less expenditure than before from
Indian revenues, and the total Indian expenditure in 1907-8 was largely
swollen by arrear charges. There is, again, the prospect of economies in the
establishments administered by India as stated in your letter under reply,
while the proposal in the letter from this Office, No. 1153 of February 20th,
1909, that certain posts which are at present held by Indian officials should
in future be filled from the Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Consular Service, would further relieve
India of providing in the first instance for those establishments.
4. As Lord Morley is aware, the accounts from India have not hitherto
been received till long after the expiration of the year to which they relate,
and if these are in future rendered at an earlier date a more speedy settle
ment will become possible.
5. Under these circumstances it would appear best that any modification
of the existing methods of adjusting accounts should be deferred till a
general revision of the 1900 arrangement, when it wall be necessary to take
into account also the additional expenditure incurred by this Department in
China since that date.
I am, Sir,
Your most obedient, humble servant,
W. Langley.
15583. I. 1145. 20.—2/1914.

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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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