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Amir Khan Suhrabian (a Persian Armenian) held the post of Provincial
Director of Finance throughout the year and being a capable and tactful
Finance ami Revenue. oiiioial, the administration of the Finance
Department in this province has improved all
round since Ins appointment. An official of this department was, put under arrest
early in the year on a charge of misappropriating money while holding the post
of Financial Assistant at Dam and Daft.
Opium.—Tlie outturn for tho opium harvest was slightly smaller than the
previous year, amounting to just over 2,000 Tabriz Mans. The amount of
taxed opium issued to shop-keepers by the Monopoly Department for local con-
sumption in the province, during the year, amounted to about 3,500 Mans, the
shortage being made up by supplies from other provinces.
/The income of the Monopoly Department on taxes was, therefore, about duo
million Dials, which is probably a record so far as Kerman is concerned.
Searching of houses of all classes of the inhabitants on the least suspicion
was more frequent than before, although the actual quantity of contraband
opium confiscated was practically negligible.
The total fines awarded for smuggling during the year amounted to between
7 and 8 thousand tumaus, but only a small proportion of this was actually
realised, as most of the parties concerned served the required terms of im­
prisonment iii lieu of lines.
As the result of enquiries made by a special inspector who arrived from
Tehran in August, the person in charge of the Monopoly godown was put under
arrest in connection with a shortage in the slocks of opium amounting to nearly
Dials. 40,000.
There was little or no smuggling from the other provinces and no exports
during tho year.
There arc no indications as to any decrease in the number of opium addicts.
Ilerr ('. Meyer remained in charge of the National Bank of Persia until
the end of September, when, his resignation having been accepted, he handed
over charge to M. Joseph Bahoshi, a
National Hank uf Persia.
naturalised Persian Subject, said to be of
Arab or Syrian origin.
M. Bahoshi appears to be a marked improvement on his predecessor in deal­
ing, with the Persians and in the conduction of business in general, and, in spite
of (lie fact that the terms offered by the Imperial Bank of Persia were on the
whole more favourable than those of the National Bank, the latter are said to
have handled a greater proportion of the banking business during the year.
No new branches were opened in the province during the year, but the
project of establishing an office at Bam was being studied by the Manager at the
close of the year.
Yawar Sayvod Sadiq Khan Shcikh-ul-Tslami held the charge of the Police
Department until the middle of July, when lie was relieved by Yawar Sayved
Yusuf Khan Khatimi, who held the post of
Police. Commissioner for the rest of the year.
The prestige of the Police force in Kerman, which had improved under
Snvycd Sadiq Khan, appears to have suffered since the arrival of the new chief,
who is said to bo not nearly as efficient as his predecessor.
The dealings of the Police authorities with the Consulate have been stiff and
formal.
Mirssn Riza Khan Tajaddud held the post of Chief Judge of the Appeal Court
Kerman throughout the year. It will be remembered that the Appeal Courts
for Kerman and Khuzistan had been amalga­
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mated during the previous year and that the
staff of tho Appeal Court, Kerman, had, therefore moved to Khuzistan in
December 1932, returning to Kerman in tho month of May of the following year.
Intimation was, however, received from Tehran in the middle of tho year
that arrangements were being made for the institution of an independent Appeal
Court in Khnzistnn and that in future it would not be nocossorv for the staff of
lhe Appeal Court, Kerman to move to Khuzistnn in the winter mouths.
Tho project of extending the jurisdiction of the Bandar Abbas Adlioh Court
to Sir inn. which had been under consideration in the latter part of 3932, did not
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