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Resident at Busbire with Consular Powers in lieu of a Resident and Assistant Resident
The reduction of the Indian Naval establishments in the Gulf will relieve the Political*
Officer stationed at Bushire of most part of his duties as a disbursing officer and the post
of treasurer to the Residency (Rs. 120 per mensem) can be abolished, the accountant
being entrusted with reduced duties in addition to his own.
“ As regards the Zanzibar Agency this Government is of opinion that the salary of the
Political Agent and Consul should be increased. The position of the Zanzibar is now very
different from what it was when the salary was fixed, and it appears to the Governor in
Council most desirable that Her Majfesty’s Government should be able to secure the
services of officers on whose experience and judgment they can rely to fill this important
appointment and the same reasons apply in a minor degree to Maskat.
“I am accordingly desired to submit the following readjustment of these two appoint­
ments and also of the Bushire Residency
Rs.
Resident and Consul-General at Bushire ••• 2,000
Political Agent and Consul, Zanzibar ... 1,400
Political Agent add Vice-Consul at Maskat ... 1,200
235. In their reply from the Government of India, dated the 31st December
1862, No. 1382, the Bombay Government was informed that their proposal s for
revising the Political appointments at Aden, Bushire, Maskat and Zanzibar were
sanctioned in their entirety by Governor-General in Council.
236. Colonel Pelly after an experience of four years, however, found that the
salary of Rs. 2,000 was inadequate for the
Financial A, December 1S06, Nos. 13-14.
post of the Resident and the Gulf, the res­
ponsibilities of which had increased with the increase of our interests in the Gulf.
He therefore urged for the increase of his salary to the scale of pay which had
existed previous to the year 1862.
The application was supported by the Bombay Government, and the Govern­
ment of India sanctioned revision to the scale of pay which had existed before
i ts revision in 1862.
237. In 1870 the Government of India proposed to increase the pay of the
Finance-A., June 1870, Nos. 4-8. Resident in the Gulf from Rs. 2,400
to Rs. 3,000 on account of the in­
Finance-A., August 1870, Nos. 4-5.
crease of responsibilities, and to meet the
increased expenditure by a reduction in the cost of the Political Agency at
Baghdad.
238. The Bombay Government, who were consulted, were opposed to any
reduction of the pay of the Political Agent, Turkish Arabia, but pressed a
desire to see that Colonel Pelly’s services were fully recognized. They thought,
however, that his pay should be fixed not very near that of the Minister at
Teheran (£ 5,000 a year) to whom he would be more subordinate than he was
then, <in case the Tehran Mission was placed under the control of'the Indian
Government as had been proposed. The Bombay Government in the circum­
stances proposed that Golonel Pelly’s salary should be fixed at Rs. 2,500 per
mensem (letter No. 265, dated 5th August 1870).
239. The Government of India decided to increase the pay'to Rs, 2,600,
the increase of Rs. 200 being met from Rs. 200 spent for the Dromedary post in
Turkish Arabia, which it was decided to abolish (Government of India Resolution
No. 351 -F., dated 30th August 1870).