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File 1250/1917 ‘Turkey:– The Ottoman Public Debt. Salif Salt Quarries.’ [‎101r] (209/455)

The record is made up of 1 volume (221 folios). It was created in 26 Jan 1917-9 Jul 1929. 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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Aden
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< 2 _\ August 1923.
Pr«ai t
To
The Palitleal Resii
Aden.
The Under Secretary sf State far India,
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. , Linden.
Sir,
I have the heneur te state that in June 191? when Salif, t
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a Turkish part in the Red Sea, was captured hy the British Usivy, I
same Turkish money and stamps belonging to the Ottoman Public
Debt Administration were taken over. The Turkish money was
exchanged for Rs.603/5/0 end the amount was credited to the
Prize Pund on the 7th Ptbruary 1918.
2. As there was no demand for the Turkish stamps in Aden,
instructions as to their disposal were asked for from the
Government of India. In their letter U®»32?P.T. dated 11th
July 1923 (copy of which is attached) they have directed me ta
forward t® you the money grid stamps,which have been in the
possession 4f the Custadian ®f Enemy Property at Aden.
I accordingly forward by registered parcel post a bag
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containing 5 packets:-
(1) One packet with
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v n) Turkish stamp®. . A , ,
(bj Turkish, official documents in Araoio.
(e) One seal.
These were capture* at Salif by Fis
Hajesty’s Ship "Uorthbrook" on the 12t i June
191? .
(2) One packet containing a few Turkish postage _
stamps.
^ ^ / 3 ) one packet containing a. few Turkish postage
‘ envelopes *
7 SEP 192^4) One packet cantainine a few Turkish pest car*«-
‘ These belsnge* te the ex-Telegraph Ka.ter
Osman Effcndi of the Kamaran Island and ware
gent by the Military Administrator,Esmaran,
t * the Custodian of Enemy Property, Aden*
(5) One .nrel.p containing 34 Turkish stamp papers - j
v 5 Piaster each ■
These were faun* an.ng the Customs stores at
Kamaran by the Military Admin istrator^xatxxxx and

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Correspondence and other papers relating to rock salt extraction at Salif [As Salif] in Yemen. The correspondence chiefly concerns various efforts on the part of British interests to agree a concession for the extraction of rock salt at Salif, a concession operated prior to the First World War by the Ottoman Public Debt Administration (also referred to in the volume by its French name, Administration de la Dette Publique Ottomane). The volume includes: correspondence from the British company Balmer Lawrie & Company, and Adam Samuel James Block, Representative for British Bondholders in Turkey, enquiring after the rock salt concession, 1917; the sale of Salif rock salt by the Government of India, and the investment of the proceeds in Exchequer Bonds, 1917; arrangements for the repayment of bonds back to the Ottoman Public Debt Administration, facilitated by the Imperial Ottoman Bank, 1920-24; papers and draft agreements relating to a new concession for the extraction of rock salt at Salif, negotiated between the British company Steel Brothers & Company Limited and the Imam of Yemen, and brokered by Commander Charles Edward Vereker Crauford, 1929.

The volume contains several items written in French.

The volume 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.

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1 volume (221 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 223; 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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