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1. Coll 1/39 'Aden. Changes in civil administration in the event of separation from India: treasury and financial arrangements'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence between the Aden Chief Commissioner (Bernard Reilly), the India Office, the Colonial Office, and the Government of India Finance Department, regarding financial and treasury arrangements in the event of the transfer of Aden to the Colonial Office.The correspondence concerns Reilly's suggestion that a Treasury Officer be appointed at Aden, to oversee the budget and the Salt, Excise and Income-tax departments. Correspondence dated from 1937 concerns the return of the Reserve Currency Chest to the Government of India. It is agreed that the funds may be retained by Aden to meet the requirements of the Royal Air Force.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 24; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
2. Coll 1/51 'Aden. Allocation of divisible expenditure'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence between the Colonial Office, the India Office Political Department, the Accountant-General at Bombay, the Foreign Department of the Government of India, and the Political Department of the Government of Bombay.The correspondence concerns: the allocation of divisible expenditure for Aden between the Government of India and Her Majesty's Government; discussion of the arrangements for the triennium ending 31 March 1933; and the circumstances in which the Government of India might be liable for a contribution to military and political services.The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 1).Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 43; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
3. Coll 28/3(2) ‘Persia. Financial situation.’
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- Abstract: Papers reporting on the financial situation in Iran, sent by staff at the British Legation at Tehran (Horace James Seymour; Reader William Bullard) to the Foreign Office, London. The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/3 ‘Persia. Financial situation’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3394).The file includes:Covering letters enclosing copies of the monthly Bulletin, produced by the Bank Melli Iran (also referred to as the Mellié Iran Bank, and Banque Mellié Iran). The copies of Bulletinare not included in the file (although some front covers do survive), however the covering letters give short summaries of their lead articles.Details and estimates for Iran’s annual budgets, with numerous statistical tables.Correspondence dated December 1939 to February 1940 relating to irrevocable documentary confirmed credits (irrevocable letters of credit) opened by Bank Melli Iran through banks in India (ff 356-361).Copies of laws passed by the Iranian Parliament, including a law relating to war credits and treasury bills (in French, f 334), a Law for the Prevention of Hoarding (ff 325-329) and an Income Tax Law (ff 262-271).Correspondence and budget reports dated 1943-1944, produced during the takeover of the administration of Iran’s Finance Ministry by a mission from the United States, led by Arthur Chester Millspaugh.At the front of the file (ff 4-200) are fourteen monthly reports of the Administrator General of the Finances of Iran (Millspaugh), produced according to the Solar Hijri calender, and dating from Ordibehesht 1322 (equivalent to the Gregorian calendar date of 22 April to 22 May 1943) to Mehr 1323 (23 September to 22 October 1944). The reports, which also contain lists of staff of the Iranian Ministry of Finance and its connected organisations, summarise Iranian finances. Many of the reports contain a map of Iran (for example, folio 185), showing borders, roads and railways, major towns and cities, and districts, which are numbered 1 to 10.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 408; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
4. Coll 28/3(3) ‘Persia. Financial Situation’
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- Abstract: The file is chiefly comprised of copies, or parts of copies, of Bulletin, a bi-monthly report published by the Bank Melli Iran:a complete copy of Bulletinno. 81, Vol XIII April–May 1946 (ff 92-165)a complete copy of Bulletinno. 84, Vol XIII October–November 1946 (ff 6-65)a supplement to BulletinNo. 82 entitled Iran’s Development Plan(ff 76-88)front covers and contents pages to a number of other issues of Bulletin(nos. 74, 75, 76, 77, 79, 82 and 83)The two complete copies of Bulletininclude reports and data on: foreign trade; foreign exchange rates; prices of gold and silver; weekly rates of exchange on the London market; money situation; details of bank rates of discounts; cost of living index for Iran; indexes of wholesale prices at Tehran; commodity prices; tables of Iranian coinage; lists of companies registered in the previous year.At the rear of the file, enclosed with a letter dated 21 January 1946 from the British Ambassador at Tehran (Reader William Bullard) is an English translation of the General State Budget (Allotments), tabled by the Iranian Minister of Finance on 23 December 1945 (ff 185-187).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 187; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.