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The record is made up of 1 file (388 folios). It was created in 17 Jan 1899-4 Apr 1904. 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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(Received informally from the Tehran Legation on the 4th April 1904.)
Concessions in force in Persia—December 1903
Railway—Tehran to Shahahdulazim.
Concessionaire, Fabius Boital. No date specified but granted about
1886. Concession stipulates that work is to be completed by January 1st,
1888. There are various appendices as to prolongation of period of construc
tion, rights of property, etc. No period is mentioned for the duration of the
concession. Is being worked and is said to pay.
Tehran Tramways.
Concessionaire, Fabius Boital. Concession granted for 99 years from
May 17th, 1888. The two above concessions are now worked by the “ Societe
Anonyme des Chemins de Fer et Tramways en Perse,” a Belgain Company with
head offices nominally in Brussels, but under the real direction of Mr.
L. Poliakoff of Moscow.
Imperial Bank of Rersia.
ConcessiongrantedtoBaronG.de Reuter on January 30th, 1889, for
sixty years. The paid-up capital of the Bank was originally £1,000,000,
subsequently reduced by the writing off of losses to £650,000. By the terms
of the charter there is a liability in case of insolvency equal to the paid-up
capital guaranteed by a metallic reserve of 33 per cent. The present note
issue varies from £250,000 to £300,000. Advances to the Government may
not exceed one-third of the paid-up capital. The majority of the Board is to
he of British nationality. The Bank has the monopoly of the issue of paper
money payable to hearer on presentation. Originally the concession under
certain conditions included the mining rights in Persia of eight different
minerals. These rights were ceded to the Persian Bank Mining Rights Cor
poration in 1890 for £150,000 cash and £600,000 in shares. The Corporation
after spending £120,000 between 1890-1893 in prospecting, freight of plant,
etc., liquidated in 1891 and the Imperial Bank of Persia Mining Rights lapsed
in 1901.
Russian Banque d'Escompte et de Brets de Perse.
Concession granted to M. Jacques Poliakoff of St. Petersburg, 1890, for
seventy-five years. This Bank was originally a Mont de Piete, but was badly
managed and would have ceased to exist had not M. Witte stepped in and
bought all the shares of the Company and handed it over to the Russian
Banque d’Etat. The loans granted in 1900 and 1902 to Persia by the Russian
Government were made through the Banque d’Escompte.
Russian Transport and Insurance Company.
Concessionaire, M. Lazar Poliakoff of Moscow. Granted 1890. The con
cession is for 75 years and includes all Persia.
Enzeli-Kasvin Road.
years.
Granted in 1892 to the Russian Transport and Insurance Company for 75
Additional concessions.
1894
• ••
... Kazvin-Hamadan Road.
1897
• • •
...
... Breakwater at Enzeli.
1897
• • •
...
... Kazvin-Tehran Road.
This concession is at present being regularly worked between Peri bazar,
Resht, Kazvin and Tehran. No work beyond surveying has as yet been done
on the Kazvin-Hamadan section.
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The file contains papers relating to Seistan [Sistan] and Persia [Iran].
The file includes printed copies of despatches from the Agent to the Governor-General of India and HM Consul-General for Khorasan and Seistan (Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Martindale Temple), to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, with enclosed despatches from Captain Percy Molesworth Sykes to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (the Marquis of Salisbury). Skyes’s despatches regard matters including: Seistan; trade routes into South-East Persia; the boundary between Persia and Afghanistan, in relation to the River Helmund [Helmand] changing its course (in despatch No. 5, which includes four sketch maps, folios 12, 13, 14 and 15); Sykes’s journey to Birjand (in despatch No. 7, which includes a sketch map on folio 20); the ruling family of Kain, which also governed Seistan, Tabbas and Tun; Sykes’s journey from Seistan to Kerman [Kirman] (in despatch No. 11, which includes a sketch map); and the direct Kerman-Quetta caravan trade that Sykes was trying to establish.
The file also includes copies of the following papers:
- A despatch from Temple to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, enclosing a letter from Temple to Sir Henry Mortimer Durand (HM Minister, Tehran), with copies of enclosures, regarding the establishment of a Seistan and Kain consulate
- A letter from Charles Edward Pitman, Director General of Telegraphs, to the Secretary to the Government of India Public Works Department, enclosing a copy of a ‘Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for a Telegraph Line from Quetta to the Persian Frontier’ by H A Armstrong, Assistant Superintendent, Indian Telegraph Department, which includes six photographs of views along the route [Mss Eur F111/352, f 52; Mss Eur F111/352, f 53; Mss Eur F111/352, f 54; Mss Eur F111/352, f 55; Mss Eur F111/352, f 56; and Mss Eur F111/352, f 57], and a map showing the proposed route of the telegraph line [Mss Eur F111/352, f 59]
- Letters from Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan, to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, enclosing copies of the diary of the Political Assistant, Chagai, for the weeks ending 16 February, 28 February, and 8 March 1900
- Diary No. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12 of Major-General George Frederick Chenevix-Trench, HM Consul for Seistan (Diary No. 6 includes a sketch map, folio 86)
- A copy of a ‘Report on Reconnaissances Made while Attached to the Seistan Arbitration Commission’ by W A Johns, Deputy Consulting Engineer for Railways, Bombay
- A copy of the report ‘Notes on Persian Seistan’, compiled by Captain Edward Abadie Plunkett, and issued by the Government of India Intelligence Branch, Quarter-Master General’s Department
- Two copies of map signed by Plunkett titled ‘Persian Seistan-Cultivated Area’ [Mss Eur F111/352, f 270]
- A booklet entitled ‘Notes on the Leading Notables, Officials, Merchants, and Clergy of Khorasan, Seistan, Kain, and Kerman.’
- Printed copies of letters from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India (Lord George Francis Hamilton), relating to the maintenance of British interests in Persia, dated 4 September 1899 and 7 November 1901 (the former with an enclosure of a minute by the Viceroy on Seistan).
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- 1 file (388 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 390; 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 file contains one foliation anomaly, f 301A
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- Title
- 'Seistan'
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- front, front-i, 2r:51v, 58r:58v, 60r:112r, 113r:125v, 147r:218r, 218r, 219r:269v, 271r:301v, 301Ar, 301Av, 302r:388v, 389v:390r, 389r, back
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