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Oil Company depot v.ith its branches in Tuft end Ardiken,
Anti piroos, the-Agent of the A.I.O.C. was transferred to
Bush ire snu was temporarily relieved by on Armenian from
Tehran who was subsequently replaced by Ab-uur Rahim Kotal,
• Jew from Tehran.

IV, LOCAL GOVER^C27T
Agha Ahmad Sr.ari held charge of the Governorste during
the year under report except for obout five months during
the summer when he went on leave to Tehran. Naib Ssrhang
S*yed J-»for E:sn Sh:rifi, tbs Chief cf Police acted for him
in his absence. It i- understood that in return for the
assiwtsr.ee which Sadri give to Dr. Tahiri 5nd S-ia Kazim during
the 1943 elections this official h*s, with Dr. T-r.iri's
influence been promoted to the rank of Ustonusr and appointed
(on pi^er) to tne 4th UiUn. He draw* the ^ey of an Us tanaar
but has been retained in Yezd in the interests of Tshiri'i,
pirty.
Sxcept for the usu^i chunse£. amongst tne members of the
local Government no events of importi.uc-j took pl^ce dxrin*,
the ^eer. During the sumr.er the Police check on traffic
passing through the m^in ^5tee was removed, vnu the collection
of 3^5 tax on all food stuffs imported into the town was
abolished by the loci-1 Finance Dsp-rtaenL under instructions
from the Central Government, Folio*in^ this a lev; iapooine
an Z0% t*x on business people was promulgated but no action u£-g
taken to enforce its regulations.

S^t the close of the year the loc3l head of the Education
Depart..er.t announced compulsory education for menial Government
employees in the ni.ht cchcolc, but like -io:t other msjcures
for reform nothing hss resulted from the snnour.ce..iSnt,
7. r.:iLIT-.Tr A-O "’Dl-mRK,
To noticeable cxxxxe activities hever been reported
in thii* srsu during the period under review except that raising
gangs, mostly from Ears, have teen setive in T’erat, }.!«rv.as and
on the main Yezd-Keris-n Road necessitating the occaj ional
movement of Gendarmerie forces to deal with them.
T;:e xc-t iaportsnt event of the year v;:a the re-org--iis*-
tion of the Gendarmerie force in tvis district and the
estsclishment of two permanent "Guruhsns" at IT*in with a
garrison of 150, each tinker the Officer Commanding, Yezd. In
order to raise this force locally the Officer Commanding, Yezd, s
started recruitment - t the end cf the year unuer review, but
the required number of recruits is still incomplete.
In order to ue3l with the increased ana more or less
permanent lawlessness in thi* pert of the country, e smell
tower wo* constructed at Shuxsh Puc- (on the mein Yezu-Kermun
road; one. the garrison of Kerens ha ban tz^nsferrea to tn*t gl^ce.
Colonel IToizi, the Officer Commanding Gendarmerie, ICth
Us tan, Isfahan, who has administrative jurisdiction over the
gendarmerie Force in Yezd district made en extensive tour in
Herat, Uerwas, Absr Kuh ana TTain etc. in order to round up the
principal bandits responsible for highway robberies in this
*rea ana to carry out an inspection in connexion with the
re-organisation icheae..
The Gendarmerie have now been ii-aued with a nev; kind of
uniform /-