'Iraqi Post and Telegraph Guide 1930' [180v] (379/483)
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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326
Foreign Post Directory
For Explanation of symbols see page 139.
Turkistan—
Letter Post—
Letter postage? —3 annas for the 1st 20 grammes and annas for
every additional 20 grammes or part of that weight.
T^oute —Through India.
Insurance. —Not available.
Parcel Post— None.
Turks and Caicos Islands— See West Indies, (British),
Tyrol Southern —Same as Italy.
Uganda —See Kenya and Uganda.
Union Of South Africa —See South Aflica, Union of.
United States of America—
Letter Post II—
Letter postage * —3 annas for the 1st 20 grammes and 11 annas for
every additional 20 grammes or part of that \Veight.
Impute —Through Great Britain.
Insurance —Not available.
Special prohibitions t—Cigars and cigarettes, unless packed as
required by the United States regulations and sent in quan
tities numbering at least 3,000 in a single package ; poisons,
viruses, serums, toxins and analogous products ; prison-made
goods ; spirituous and intoxicating liquors of all kinds ; films
and pictorial representations of prize fights ; adulterated foods
and drugs ; solicitations for orders for, and advertisements of
intoxicating liquors (Newspapers, but not other publications,
containing such advertisements are, however, admitted);
live bees ; potatoes, cereals, unmanufactured cotton (including
cotton waste), except samples thereof ; cotton seeds and pods,
and the products of cotton seed except oil ; sugar canes or
cuttings or parts of sugar canes, citrus, nursery stock,
and all growing or living plants, seeds and other plant pro
ducts for propagation (including bulbs, roots, and tubers and
seeds of trees and shrubs, but not vegetable and flower seeds
and field seeds other then cereals), unless addressed to and
intended for the use of the Federal Horticultural Board, or the
Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, United States
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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- 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