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Coll 29/61 'Kuwait Agency buildings' [‎300r] (606/816)

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The record is made up of 1 file (402 folios). It was created in 27 Apr 1929-27 Aug 1936. It was written in English. 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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P.6416/30.
Draft Paper.
E. F. Gye, Ssq*, C.M.a.,
Foreign Office,
S.W.l.
APPRtWy COUNCIL
2 7 OCT 1930
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Department.
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W'ill you please refer to your
:£*o. letter of llth August last to
Laithwaite, No.K.9584/63/234.
2. We are sending an official
letter to the Foreign Office regarding
the proposed new building at Koweit.
The point taken in your letter that
the proposed expenditure should not
be shared has been considered here^^
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you refer > however relate only to
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Persia, Vrido:
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capital expenditure on buildings is
he se ; arrangement s
provisionally borne by Indian
revenues at posts in respect of which
the Government of India, in the
discussions of 1922-25 expressed
their willingness to assume full
responsibility, viz: Meshed, Seistan,
Duzdap, Bander Abbas and Kerman;
at most of the other posts in Persia
such expenditure is similarly borne
by British revenues; the interim
arrangement is not easy to apply at
Bushire and Tehran, in respect of
which posts the Government of India
had proposed to meet one-third of
the expenditure; but, in practice,
capital expenditure on buildings has
been/

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The volume concerns the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. buildings at Kuwait.

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The volume includes four blueprints, architectural drawings representing the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Buildings at Kuwait: site plan, plans, elevations and sections, additions and alterations (folios 5-9).

The volume is composed of correspondence between the Foreign Office, the 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. , the Government of India, the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Kuwait, the British Legation at Tehran, the Treasury, and the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

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1 file (402 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 404; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers.

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