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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [266r] (531/749)
The record is made up of 1 file (373 folios). It was created in 9 Jul 1942-8 Feb 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. .
Transcription
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5
Concessions:
22. Concession fees on fisheries and river
rentage
23. Concession fees on telephones and
revenues from other concessions
and arrears
24. Salaries of Government employees
payable by A.I.O.C.
25. Concession fees from A.I.O.C.
26. Ceded Properties and Public Domains
27. Commercial Transactions, Economic
affairs and factories
28. Majlis, Majlis Printing House and
Baharistan garden
Ministry of Justice —
29. Public Courts ...
30. Criminal and Profiteers’ Courts
31. 25 per cent, registration of documents
and property
32. Registration of documents and
property and percentage fee on
executed warrants ...
33. Revenue on profit gained by owners of
Notaries public ...
34. Sale of documents and books
Ministry of the Interior —
35. Police revenues and passports sold in
the provinces
36. Civil Status Department
37. Ministry of Health and Pasteur
Institute
38. Ministry for Foreign Affairs, pass
ports, identity cards, &c
Ministry of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones —
39. Post ... ... ...
40. Telegraphs
41. Supervision of Telephone Company, &c.
Ministry of Education —
42. Tuition fees in schools other than
primary ... ...
43. Stamp fees on permits, certificates, &c.
44. Miscellaneous ... ...
45. Sale of Year Books
46. Public endowments
47. Hospital affairs ...
48. National relics and museums
Ministry of Commerce and Industry —
49. Ministry of Commerce and Industry...
50. Sale of weights ... ...
■ 51. Tiles and brocade
52. Fees for analysis and dyes
Ministry of Agriculture —
53. Sale of agricultural implements and
tools and incomes from experimental
farms ...
54. Examination of skins ...
55. Irrigation Department
Other Revenues —
56. Transferred to 1322 account ....
1324.
Rials.
2,800,000
1 , 000,000
358,400
512,000,000
125,000,000
500,000,000
7,000,000
7,400,000
600,000
12 , 200,000
50,000,000
5,000,000
4,000,000
4,120,000
1,725,000
580,000
1,700,000
30,000,000
91,000,000
500,000
1,850,000
800,000
150,000
15,000
1 , 000,000
600,000
35,000
260,000
2 , 000,000
120.000
100,000
8,500,000
1,500,000
2,500,000
70,000,000
1323.
Rials.
800,000
1 , 000,000
358,400
460,958,160
140,456,000
7,000,000
6 , 000,000
800,000
10 , 000,000
40,000,000
4,500,000
2,500,000
3.500,000
1,500,000
400,000
1,300,000
23,400,000
76,500,000
100,000
1,500,000
800,000
150,000
20,000
1 , 000,000
600,000
35,000
78,000
310.000
72,000
1 , 000,000
1,500,000
70,000,000
Grand total
4,412,200,000
4,098,075,660
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Copies of intelligence summaries prepared on a weekly basis by the Military Attaché at the British Legation in Tehran, and received by 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. via the Foreign Office. The file’s contents follow on chronologically from Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3503). The summaries cover a broad range of information relating to wartime conditions in Iran: the activities of the Iranian government, including political instabilities, the resignation and appointment of governments and government ministers; the financial situation in Iran, including the reappointment in 1942 and subsequent economic policies of Arthur Chester Millspaugh, who was recruited to organise the government’s finances; internal security in Iran, including increasing political unrest in the north of the country (specifically in Azerbaijan) brought about by a growing Soviet presence, wartime propaganda, and the activities of the Tudeh Party of Iran; concerns over wheat production and supply, including reports of food shortages and famine conditions in 1942/43; the Iran military, including its movements, activities and appointments; foreign interests (primarily USA, British, and Soviet); reports of the numbers of Polish refugees in camps in Tehran, Isfahan and Ahwaz [Ahvāz].
The file contains a single item in French, being a copy of the declaration of the Congrès National d’Azerbaidjan (Nation Congress of Azerbaijan, f 359).
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- 1 file (373 folios)
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The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 375; 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.
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- Title
- Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’
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- front, front-i, 2r:52v, 54r:104v, 106r:110v, 112r:192r, 193r:241v, 242v:261v, 262v:273r, 275r:339v, 341r:358v, 360r:360v, 362r:363r, 365r:369v, 370v:371r, 372v:374v, back
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