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M. Hunin, the Customs Inspector and Head of the Preventive Department
was transferred to Tehran at the end of March 1930 and was made Inspector
General of Customs.
The Preventive Department achieved considerable success during the year
especially so long as the troops remained in Dashti and Dashtistan. Later there
was some recrudescence but on a reduced scale, in the country as soon as the Force ^
left.
Sixteen Customs posts were established on the Persian Baluchistan frontier
in May and in December Customs authorities requested Mir Barkat Khan to co
operate with them in the efficient working of the Customs posts opened in Sadaich
Galag, Rapch, and Tank.
Posts and Telegraphs. —Aqa Husain Ali Shahruzi held charge of these two
Departments as Provincial Director until December 1930 when he went on leave
to Tehran, his Assistant Haji Khan Sihhatpur acting in his absence. He was no
more successful in this capacity than in that of Acting Governor and was on oc
casions very discourteous to the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. .
Judicial .—Mirza Muhammad Ali Pishwa remained in charge of his duties
until the end of March 1930 when he suddenly left by air for Tehran where he
settled the question of his own salary and that of the Public Prosecutor Nimtalluah
Khan Aushti. None of his petitions and requests for an increase having previously
had the slightest effect. He returned 3 j months later having succeeded in getting
his own pay raised to Ts. 250 and that of Aushti to Ts. 200 a month.
Health and Quarantine Department. — {a) Dr. Abul Qasim Khan Bah rami
remained in charge of this Department as Chief Medical Quarantine Officer and
Health Officer of the Southern ports throughout the year. His quarantine mea
sures, as far as this Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. is concerned, were satisfactory.
(6) Lion and Sun Society .—This institution was established 2 years ago by
His Excellency the Governor and is being managed by the Health and Chief Qua
rantine Medical Officer. It has since bought the old Turkish Consulate, Bushire,
and converted it into a Maternity Hospital.
The society remitted a sum of 5,000 francs to France as a donation in aid of the
flooded areas in the Seine districts and another sum in aid of the Damavand vil
lages ruined by earthquakes.
Census Department .—Abdul Majid Khan Farrabi took charge from Mirza
Muhammad Ah Khan Mufazzal in December 1929 and remained in charge through
out the year. He is a poet and of the Sunni faith.
Municipality .—Elections for a new Municipality were held in July and out of
the 46 persons voted for whose names were reported to the Central Government,
Tehran, 11 persons, comparative nonentities were approved for the Council.
This new Municipality presided over by the former president Sayed Husain
Behbehani Siadat elaborated a new budget of Ts. 24,000 per annum and suggested
certain new sources of revenue to make up the amount. The Central Government,
however, rejected the budget and authorised the following taxes to be collected
for the Municipal revenues :—
\\ eighing Fee at Krs. 2% Tabriz Maunds (8 lbs. each) on everything brought
into the town for local consumption.
3 /o of the hire of rentables (in addition to the ordinary revenue tax).
Krs. 1 per bottle on Persian liquors.
Krs. 3 per bottle on foreign liquors.
Krs. 20 to 60 a month on garages, restaurants or hotels.
Krs. 15 to 50 on Electric and Ice Plants.
1% °f nett income of Cinematographs and theatres.
Krs. 1 to 10 per month on every shop of profession classes.
Krs. 3 to 100 on the assessed value of houses worth Ts. 400 each.
Up to the end of the year the Municipality had made little progress in collecting
the taxes owing to the poverty of the people.