IOR/F/4/2143/102475

The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, an extract of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 31 March 1846.

The item relates to the settlement of claims due to British officers from the Persian [Iranian] Government. In particular, the item includes:

• Details of the officers in question and the amounts owed to their estates
• Details on the amount transferred by the Persian Government directly to the Court of Directors in London
• Reports on the progress made by John Williams, General Paymaster, in settling the claims
• A letter from a Mr Elander, clerk and draftsman, who requests the money owed to the estate of Richard Gibbons (ff 581-582).

Particular attention is also paid to claims made by Tagubee [Taguhi] Shee, widow of Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin Bazil Shee, who supplies copies of statements and acquittance rolls as evidence, but whose claims are complicated by a claim made against her by an Armenian merchant at Tehran. A copy of Tagubee Shee’s petition can be found at folios 559-560.

Correspondents include: Tagubee Shee; Williams; Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, HM Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran; the Court of Directors; the [provincial] Government of Scinde [Sindh]; and the governments of Bombay and India.

Tagubee is also rendered in the text as: Sagubee; Saguhee; and Taquhee.

The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5287, Draft 503/46’, ‘Coll[ection] 23’, ‘Collection N. 35 of N. 41’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.