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File 1250/1917 ‘Turkey:– The Ottoman Public Debt. Salif Salt Quarries.’ [127r] (261/455)
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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notified of the investment of the first sum of twenty-eight '
thousand, one hundred and fifty-one younds, sixteen shillings
on the 18th September, 1917, and informed that the bonds would
be held on behalf of Messrs. Balmer lawrie and Company under
the condition that they would be handed over after the war to
the Council of the Administration of the Ottoman Public Debt
without regard to depreciation or appreciation* 'This
condition was duly noted hy Sir Adam Block in his letter to
this Oj-xice On tne 1 ••tn September, 191?, and i am therefore to
enquire whether the Lords Commissioners consider that the
bonds may now be handed over to the Council of the Ottoman
Public Debt.
4. In the event of the return of the bonds now being
possible, it is presumed that a request for their return would
have to be made both by Llessrs. Balmer Lawrie and Company
and the Ottoman public Debt Administration, and not by the
Imperial Ottoman Bank.
I am, etc. ,
(Sgd. ) D.G. Osborne.
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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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- Title
- File 1250/1917 ‘Turkey:– The Ottoman Public Debt. Salif Salt Quarries.’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:6v, 9r:25v, 39r:43v, 47r:65v, 71r:75v, 77r:85v, 87r:93v, 94ar, 94r:103v, 105r:112v, 115r:115v, 117r:119v, 121r:121v, 123r:142v, 146r:152v, 154r:155v, 157r:173v, 176r:176v, 178r:210v, 212r:219v, 221r:223v, back-i
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