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'Iraqi Post and Telegraph Guide 1930' [82r] (173/483)
The record is made up of 1 file (229 folios). It was created in c 1930-c 1939. 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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Foreign Telegrams.
133
charge. Whenever a telegram is repeated “ T. C.’ 1 which is charged for
as one word must be inserted before the address of destination. This
service is not available for letter telegrams.
(2). Repetition is desirable for all Telegrams in Code or
Cypher. - The sender can have the telegram repeated between the office
of origin and the last Post office in Iraq at which it is dealt with on
paymens of a charge equal to the rate for an ordinary inland telegram
of the same length.
318. Repetition at request of Addressee to Detect Errors
The addressee of a telegram can by application at the Delivery
Office obtain the verification of doubtful passages or words. For this
purpose he must deposit a sum calculated by multiplying the number
of words to be repeated by the ordinary rate perhvord to thelplace from
which the repetition is to be obtained. The minimum charge is for
one word.
The charge is refunded if it should prove that the passages or word 8
in question were inaccurately transmitted, but if the. repetition shows
that some of the words repeated, but. not all, were inaccurately trail-
smitted, a proportionate part only of the amount paid tor repetition
■will be remitted, or the appropriate amount will he collected, as the
case may be,
(9) The addressee of a telegram may have it repeated from the first
Post Office in Iraq at which it was dealt with on depositing the ordinary
charge for the transmission of an inland telegram of the same.length.
If there has been an error the amount deposited for the repetition will
be refunded.
319. —Charges Returned.
The following charges are returned
(a) The cost of a telegram in plain language or a telegram of
which the repetition to the office of destination ^ been paffi by the
Lmnt is .made in respect of the portion Zfei
is the charge for cm unrepeated telegram, con a n g code o, cyphu
which has been inaccurately transmitted, leimbui.e .
(b) The cost of telegrams which have failed to reach their
destination in consequence of some error of the FeUg, ctqk be, owe.
less o annas. It the telegram >» « . has reached the place to
next office has been completed, hu b t be returned,
which it is addressed, any balance oi cnuiges
About this item
- Content
Printed volume containing details and rules of posting in Iraq.
Key chapters in the volume cover:
- Inland post
- Foreign post
- Foreign parcel post
- Money orders
- Official post articles
- Railway post letters
- Telegraphs.
There are some loose folios in an envelope, placed at the back of the volume. These contain amendments suggested to the parcel postage section; their author and date are unknown.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (229 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume’s contents are arranged into eight sections. Contents pages (ff 6-9) lists the chapters, and refer to page numbers.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 231; 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. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/4114B
- Title
- 'Iraqi Post and Telegraph Guide 1930'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:20r, 20ar, 20v:24r, 24ar, 24v, 25ar, 25r:74v, 75ar:75bv, 75r:80v, 81ar, 81r, 81av, 81v, 82ar, 82r, 82av, 82v:140r, 140ar, 140v, 141ar, 141r, 141av, 141v, 142ar, 142r:156r, 156ar, 156v, 157ar, 157r:159v, 160ar, 160r, 160av, 160v:199v, 200ar, 200r, 200av, 200v:231v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence