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File 50/1914 Pt 4 'Persian Gulf: Lights and Buoys; Expenditure' [114r] (231/423)
The record is made up of 1 volume (208 folios). It was created in 1912-1922. 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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Please see the attached statements prepared by the
Accountant General's Department. It seems probable from an
examination of these statements that the items £4776.15.6
and £3040 for "Flashing apparatus" for Little Quoin and
Tamb Island respectively include cost of the ironwork for
*
the towers - there is no other large item and moreover it
is unlikely that the limits would be sent out without the
towers which would be needed to make them operative; also
in Trinity House letter of 8th June 1912 they speak of the
"despatch of the lighthouse tower for Tamb Island for a
*
Perhaps sum of £3.040"
this could
be verified.
from T.H. With regard to the figure £5,100 for Little Quoin
mentioned in the Government of India's telegram and referred
to in the penultimate paragraph of the Political Department
Minute, it will be seen that this approximates very nearly
to the actual cost of "Flashing apparatus" plus freight
thereon (4777 + 310 = £5087). In the case of Tamb they
appear to have taken the original estimate in Trinity House
letter of 26th March 1912.
Assuming that these suggestions are correct the position
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This file contains papers relating to the construction and maintenance of buoying and lighting facilities in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , primarily for the Quoin Island Lighthouse. The letters are exchanges between the Government of India and British Authorities in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and mainly discuss the cost and logistical arrangements for the construction of the permanent navigation equipment in the Gulf.
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- 1 volume (208 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 210; 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.
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- IOR/L/PS/10/440
- Title
- File 50/1914 Pt 4 'Persian Gulf: Lights and Buoys; Expenditure'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:38v, 39v:67v, 74r:97v, 98v:107v, 109r:120v, 124r:205v, 208r:209v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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