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File 3839/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: - Incidence of expenditure in - question of revising the agreement of 1900' [‎430v] (879/880)

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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It is apparently thought that we are asking for a modification of the agree
ment of 1900, but this is not so. We do not wish to escape the liability of
the 4 , 0 S 7 L 10 s., but we think that it would be convenient and appropriate that
the payment 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. to the Foreign Office in respect of any given
year (Part (1) of your arrangement) should be made at the same time as the
payment by the Foreign Office 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. in respect of that year
(Part (2) of your arrangement), i.e., in the next year but one after the comple
tion of the given year. Don’t you think our proposal reasonable ? As
matters stand our expenses in Persia are at present between 30,000L and
40,000?. a year greater than those of the Foreign Office and, though this
discrepancy is about to be largely reduced owing to reductions and transfers,
yet our expenditure in future is certain still to exceed that of the Foreign
Office, but the refund by the Foreign Office to us in respect of that excess of
expenditure will continue to be made if matters go on as they are between one
and two years afterwards; and it seems unreasonable that w^e should be
required to make our payment of 4,087?. lOs. at an earlier date than the
Foreign Office refund to us is made.
The immediate effect of compliance with our request would be that our
payments of 4,087?. 10s. in respect of the years 1910-11 and 1911-12, which
would under present arrangements be made in those years, would be post
poned in each case for two years, with the result that the Foreign Office
payments to us in those years would be correspondingly increased, but the
net final result of the transactions would of course be unaffected.
I hope I have made my point clear ?
Yours sincerely,
W. Robinson.
10. Minute by Political Department, 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 11th February 1911
(Political 4213).
At the instance of the Financial Department, the question was raised of
the propriety of making the Foreign Office an annual advance of 4,087?. 10 , 5 .
two years before the money is rightly due in connection with the adjustment
of the accounts of diplomatic and consular expenditure in Persia.
The Treasury have expressed themselves unwilling to accept our view, on
the ground that the arrangement was the outcome of an Agreement of 1900,
which is still in force.
On the reference paper below,-the Financial Department advise that there
does not appear to be any use in pursuing the subject further at present.
Submission.
It is submitted that in accordance with the view of the Financial
Department the question of the propriety of making to the Foreign Office
the annual advance of 4,087?. 10s. be for the present dropped.
Approved Council 28th February 1911.
11. 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, 25th February 1911.
As regards the incidence of expenditure at Bagdad (vide ante-penulti
mate paragraph of Sir Charles Hardinge’s letter above quoted, I am to
inclose a Memorandum from which it will be seen that, despite the intention
of the Agreement of 1900, the effect of that Instrument has been to throw on
Indian revenues in respect of 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. an excess charge
which more than covers the expenditure on the Bagdad Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. .
A Idle therefore Lord Crewe is not less anxious than Sir E. Grey to
reduce expenditure he is strongly of opinion that in the present conflict of
international interests in the middle East this cannot be regarded as the
paramount consideration.
R. Ritchie.

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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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