File 5015/1919 Pt 2 'Persia: Appointment of Experts for Revision of Tariff'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- File 5015/1919 Pt 2 'Persia: Appointment of Experts for Revision of Tariff'
- Date:
- 1919/1920
- Description:
- Abstract: This item comprises: correspondence; deciphered telegrams; India Office Political Department registry forms with subject and notes; India Office draft telegrams, draft letters and notes; and covering letters of the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India.The papers relate to the nomination of British representatives to serve on the Joint Anglo-Persian [Iranian] Committee for the examination and revision of the [Anglo]-Persian Customs Tariff, including:The recommendation by Sir Percy Cox [Acting Minister] in Tehran, of C R Watkins, CIE, Indian Civil Service, then Chief Collector of Customs, Mesopotamia [Iraq]The recommendation by the Board of Trade of Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith (then in India) and his assistant Thomas Martland Ainscough, and the agreement of the Foreign Office and CoxCandidates suggested by the Government of India, including James Algernon Stevens, Collector of Customs, Rangoon [Yangon], Arthur Herbert Ley, Secretary to Government of India, Commerce and Industry Department, and Arthur Cecil McWatters, Secretary to the Secretariat Committee, Indian Civil Service (only McWatters was appointed)Candidates suggested by the Civil Commissioner Baghdad, including M M S Gubbay, Controller of Currency India, S S B Dantur, Collector of Customs (then on the Currency Commission in London), and Major Reader William Bullard, CIE, Levant Consular Service (only Bullard was appointed)Discussion regarding the apportionment of the costs of the British delegationThe salaries and allowances of Committee appointees Watkins, Bullard and McWatters.The principal correspondents are: the Board of Trade, Commercial Relations and Treaties Department; the Foreign Office; Sir Percy Cox; the India Office; the Civil Commissioner Baghdad; and the Viceroy of India. Note that there is some overlap of early correspondence with IOR/L/PS/10/856/1.Physical description: 1 item (90 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Personnel
Wages - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100130976186.0x000002_ar
81055/vdc_100130976186.0x000002_en
IOR/L/PS/10/856/2
IOR/L/PS/10/856/2