مجموعة ٤٥/٢٩ "إعادة تنظيم عام للمناصب القنصلية" [ظ‎‎١‎٧‎٢] (٦٧٤/٣٥١)

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Department pensions. The ghulaas will 5e required for message#
and as gate-keepers and watchmen, and two gardeners will he
indispensable if the water supply is to he properly supervised
and the property is not to lose its amenities and in consequence
such value as it possesses. It will, in addition, be necessary
to make provision for upkeep of roofs, walls etcetera and to
moke the Consul at Shiraz a standing travelling allowance of
say Forty Founds a year. The total cost, including the travel
ling allowance, should he well under Three Hundred Pounds a year
and compared to the present cost of the Consulate-General of
some Two Thousand Five Hundred Founds a year, this figure is,
I submit, very low for the advantages to he gained.
10. I should mention here that I advocate the incorporation
of Isfahan with Shiraz rather than the Incorporation of Shiras
with Isfahan because Shiraz is not only the more remote post,
hut the centre of greater potential political activity. It has
also upon the whole the better climate and the Consular residenc
is smaller and therefore more convenient for an officer below
the rank of Consul-General. Its main drawback is that the
foreign coifimunity is somewhat restricted compared to Isfahan.
11. If the amalgamation takes place it will no longer bo
possible, in view of the Persian regulations, to call the
Isfahan property a "Consulate-General" or "Consulate". It will
have to be regarded as a Consular rest-house and the clerk
either as a private person with no official status or else ao
a clerk of the Shiraz Consulate on detached duty. The position j
will be practically the same as that at Bender Abbas as
described in my despatch Ho# 360 of August 20th last.
12. I venture to draw your attention to paragraph 3 of
Mr. Bristow’s despatch and to request that he may be authorised
to