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Coll 28/3(2) ‘Persia. Financial situation.’ [198r] (395/817)
The record is made up of 1 file (407 folios). It was created in 7 Sep 1938-1 Jan 1946. It was written in English and French. 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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PRICE STABILIZATION REGULATION No. 8
Dated 29 Khordad, 1322
Pursuant to the powers vested in me he the Law of 13 Ordibe-
hesht, 1322:
1) Pending the issuing of price-fixing and rationing regulations and
the opening of Government retail stores, every merchant and every other
person having passenger automobile or truck parts, accessories, tires or
tubes for sale or in excess of personal requirements may not sell any of
them except:
(a) To an ultimate user or consumer for immediate use on an
automobile or truck or
(b) To the Section of Price Stablization of the Ministry of
Finance.
After 13 Tir, 1322, no such commodity and no gasoline may be sold
for use on a passenger automobile on which a permit to operate is not
displayed as required by this regulation.
2) Not later than 13 lir, 1322, every merchant, wholesaler or retailer
or any other person having automobile or truck parts, accessories, tires,
or tubes for sale or in excess of personal requirements, shall prepare and
submit to the Section of Price Stabilization a declaration showing every iten
except nuts and bolts, in stock or in excess of personal requirements, the
quantity and model of each item, and the present selling price. In the case
of tires, the manufacturers, sizes and serial numbers must be given. De
clarations by merchants and other persons in the Province of TFHRAN shall
be delivered not later than 13 l ir, to the Anti-Hoarding Department, Sec
tion of Price Stablization, 2nd Floor Imperial Treasury - General Building.
In the provinces outside of TEHRAN, the declarations will be delivered,
not later than 13 l ir, 1322, to the Financial Agents. Failure tocomply with
the provisions this article will subject the merchants or other persons
involved to the penalty provisions of the Anti-Hoarding Law.
3) Permits to operate passenger automobiles wdll be issued by the
Section of Price Stabilization on the applications of the owners, and after
inspections of the automobiles and accessories.
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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 Bulletin are 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.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (407 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file. The file’s correspondence begins at folio 202 and ends at folio 407. Printed reports occupy the front portion of the file (with an enclosing note, ff 4-201), and are also arranged in reverse chronological order.
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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 The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/3396
- Title
- Coll 28/3(2) ‘Persia. Financial situation.’
- Pages
- 187r:200v, 176r:186v, 162r:175v, 149r:161v, 138r:148v, 126r:137v, 109r:125v, 84r:108v, 68r:83v
- Author
- Bank Melli Iran
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