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The above arrangement left the following appointments untouched :—•
Rs.
Mead Munshi 100
Second Munshi 75
Third Munshi 45
Shroff 28
Shargah Agent »5o
Singah Agent • •• 50
Shiraz Agcut 150
Bahrein 100
Boat Establishment.
1 Tindal x 1
4 Lascars at Rs. 80 each ... • •• ttt 40
Steam Pinnace Establishment.
Engine Driver—pay Rs. 60 ^
• •• • •1 75
» —ration money 1. 15 J
Navigator • •• 20
Stoker Ml • •• • M *3
Lascar Ml Ml 12
As regards the escort (see Section XXXVI below).
253. In 1899 on account of the increase of work, especially consular work,
the Government of India sanctioned enter­
External A., May 1899, Nos. 90-105.
tainment of a Treasury Accountant on a
pay of Rs. 130 a month with house-rent allowance of Rs. 10 per mensem ; and
the Home Government sanctioned £120 a year, out of which the salary of a Con­
sular clerk would have to be provided, the foe allowance ^30 a year attached to
the post being withdrawn.

(xxxiii) Consular appointments in Persia: Maintenance of British influence in
Persia, 1899.
254. With a view to the maintenance of our influence and protection of our
interests in Persia and Persian Gulf Sir
Secret E., November 1899, Nos. 9-11.
Mortimer Durand in his Despatch No. 16,
dated 12th February 1S99, made the following proposals, inter alia :—
(1) Appointment of British Consuls and Vice-Consuls on the following
places among others—
(«) Consul for the Karun and Arabistan.
(£) Vice-Consul at Bandar Abbas.
(c) Vice-Consul as Native Agent at Bampur.
(2) Appointment of a British Agent at Bahrein.
(3) That the Resident at Bushire should spend his summer at Shiraz.
(4) That the Consulates should have a guard of Indian troopers.
255. Lord Curzon’s Government in their well known Despatch No. 175-
Secret—External, dated 21st September
Secret E., November 1899, Nos. io-ii.
1899, expressed concurrence on all these
proposals except as to providing guards for the consulates, which they considered
not advisable “ for the present ” in view of the excuse it would give to the Russian
for movements, “ for which not even the necessities of a plague cordon could be
pleaded in justification.’*
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