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Letters and Papers Concerning the Trans-Persian Railway and Other Railways in Persia [‎191r] (381/442)

The record is made up of 1 file (221 folios). It was created in Nov 1911-Mar 1917. 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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443 National Insurance Act, 1911. [15 July 1912] Factory An East India Company trading post. and Workshop Bill. 444
8 . Provisional Special Order made by
the National Health Insurance
Joint Committee as to outworkers
who are married women ;
9. Provisional Special Order made by
the National Health Insurance Joint
Committee and the Scottish In
surance Commissioners acting jointly,
entitled the National Health In
surance (Special Customs) Pro
visional Order (Scotland), 1912 ;
10 . Provisional Special Order made by
the National Health Insurance Joint
Committee and the Insurance Com
missioners acting jointly as to
fishermen remunerated by share ;
11. Provisional Special Order made by
the National Health Insurance Joint
Committee and the Welsh Insurance
Commissioners acting jointly, en
titled the National Health Insurance
(Special Customs) Provisional Order,
1912 (No. 2) ;
12. Regulations, dated 12th July, 1912,
made by the National Health In
surance Joint Committee, as to the
Accounts of Approved Societies :
Laid before the House (pursuant to Act),
■ said to be printed. (No. 117.)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL
ORDERS (No. 6) BILL.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL
ORDERS (No. 8) BILL.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL
ORDERS (No. 10) BILL.
Moved, That the Order made on the
24th day of April last, “ That no Pro
visional Order Confirmation Bill brought
from the House of Commons shall be read
a second time after Thursday the 4th day
of July next ” be dispensed with, and that
the Bills be now read 2 a ; agreed to : Bills
read 2 a accordingly.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL
ORDERS (No. 6) BILL.
Committed.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL
ORDERS (No. 8) BILL.
Committed: The Committee to be pro
posed by the Committee of Selection in
regard to the Caerphilly Order.
(D 375) A
LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL
ORDERS (No. 10) BILL.
Committed: The Committee to be pro
posed by the Committee of Selection in
regard to the Salford Order.
GAS AND WATER PROVISIONAL ORDERS
BILL.
Amendments reported (according to
Order), and Bill to be read 3 a To-morrow.
ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL
ORDERS (No. 1) BILL.
MILITARY LANDS PROVISIONAL ORDER
BILL.
Read 3 a (according to Order), and passed.
FACTORY An East India Company trading post. AND WORKSHOP (No. 2) BILL.
[H.L.]
Order of the Day for the House to be put
into Committee (on Re-commitment), read.
The Marquess of SALISBURY: I
have to apologise to your Lordships for
not being in my place on Wednesday last
when this Bill was under discussion,
on which occasion a number of Govern
ment Amendments were inserted in the
Bill on Report with a view to the Bill
being reprinted and re-committed. The
effect of the Government Amendments
then inserted was in some respects to
diminish the stringency of the Bill and in
other respects to increase it. The principal
form in which diminution has taken place
under those Amendments is that the
absolute prohibition of underground work
places in the future, as the provision stood
in the original draft of the Bill, is done
away with. A broad distinction was made
on the face of the Bill itself between
existing workplaces and those started
after the commencement of the Act. In
regard to existing workplaces, what we
originally proposed was that they should
be subject to stringent regulations, but
that any workplace hereafter established
should not be permitted at all if it was
underground within the meaning of the
Statute.
Having made this short statement I will,
without further preface, move that the
House resolve itself into Committee on the
Bill.
Moved, That the House do now resolve
itself into Committee .—(The Marquess of
Salisbury.)
On Question, Motion agreed to.
House in Committee accordingly.
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The file contains correspondence, memoranda, and other papers relating to railway projects in Persia [Iran] and the surrounding region. The papers deal with the proposals for, planning, and progress of, several railway lines, including one from the Mediterranean to India, the Trans-Persian Railway, the Baghdad Railway, and the Nushki and Dalbandin extension from Quetta. The documents discuss the merits and flaws of the proposals, technical issues such as gauge sizes, and the impact of such projects on Britain's relations with Russia, Germany, France, and Turkey.

At the back of the file are a number of official reports on Parliamentary debates within the House of Commons, dating from 10 July 1912 to 25 May 1914, all of which feature railways (folios 128-218). Also at the rear of the file are three maps:

  • General Map of Asia with proposed British, German, and Russian rail lines added by hand
  • War Office map of the Middle East, showing railways and railway projects
  • As above with further rail lines added and details of gauges given.

Correspondents include: Arthur Campbell Yate, army Officer; Henry McNiel; Francis Richard Maunsell, army officer; George Lloyd, politician; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles à Court Repington, army officer and war correspondent; Lord Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Leader of the House of Lords; Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice (Lord Lansdowne), statesman; Lucien Wolf, journalist and historian; Charles Staniforth, businessman and railway investor; Charles Prestwich Scott, Editor of the Manchester Guardian; Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Director, Imperial Bank of Persia; and Colonel Frank Cooke Webb Ware, former Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Chagai.

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1 file (221 folios)
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The file is arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear.

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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 221; 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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