File 5015/1919 Pt 2 'Persia: Appointment of Experts for Revision of Tariff' [‎173v] (30/180)

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This item comprises: correspondence; deciphered telegrams; 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. Political Department registry forms with subject and notes; 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. draft telegrams, draft letters and notes; and covering letters of the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India.

The papers relate to the nomination of British representatives to serve on the Joint Anglo-Persian [Iranian] Committee for the examination and revision of the [Anglo]-Persian Customs Tariff, including:

• The recommendation by Sir Percy Cox [Acting Minister] in Tehran, of C R Watkins, CIE, Indian Civil Service, then Chief Collector of Customs, Mesopotamia [Iraq]
• The recommendation by the Board of Trade of Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith (then in India) and his assistant Thomas Martland Ainscough, and the agreement of the Foreign Office and Cox
• Candidates suggested by the Government of India, including James Algernon Stevens, Collector of Customs, Rangoon [Yangon], Arthur Herbert Ley, Secretary to Government of India, Commerce and Industry Department, and Arthur Cecil McWatters, Secretary to the Secretariat Committee, Indian Civil Service (only McWatters was appointed)
• Candidates suggested by the Civil Commissioner Baghdad, including M M S Gubbay, Controller of Currency India, S S B Dantur, Collector of Customs (then on the Currency Commission in London), and Major Reader William Bullard, CIE, Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Consular Service (only Bullard was appointed)
• Discussion regarding the apportionment of the costs of the British delegation
• The salaries and allowances of Committee appointees Watkins, Bullard and McWatters.

The principal correspondents are: the Board of Trade, Commercial Relations and Treaties Department; the Foreign Office; Sir Percy Cox; 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 Civil Commissioner Baghdad; and the Viceroy of India. Note that there is some overlap of early correspondence with IOR/L/PS/10/856/1.

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