‘Relative to the rates at which stores are to be supplied to the Persian Government by the Company.’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Relative to the rates at which stores are to be supplied to the Persian Government by the Company.’
- Date:
- 1810/1813
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists mostly of copies of correspondence and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the governments of Bombay and Bengal. It concerns the rates at which goods are supplied to the Persian Government by the East India Company. The main subjects are:Details of the military stores and woollens ordered by Sir Harford Jones, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran], on behalf of the government of PersiaThe concerns of Sir Gore Ouseley, Ambassador at the Court of Persia, at the advance charged on goods supplied to the Government of PersiaThe justification provided by the Government of Bombay for the charges made in supplying the goods to Persia, and the fixing of the rates at which stores in future are to be suppliedThe question of why muskets supplied from Bengal are charged at a higher rate than those supplied from Bombay and Madras.The title page (f 78) of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political No. 14, Season 1814/15, Draft 190’; and ‘Examiner’s Office, January 1815’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at 78, and terminates at 100, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Cloth trade
Shipping rates
Arms sales - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000001714.0x0002a1_ar
81055/vdc_100000001714.0x0002a1_en
IOR/F/4/449/10774
IOR/F/4/449/10774