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 1838 CONVENTION-AMERICAN RIGHTS IN IRAQ. JAN. 9, 1980. 8ebeduJo! ll-<Jontd. GRADES. GBADJ: I. Adviser or Under·Secretary of State to the Ministry of Defence:- Bs. Pay______________________________________ __ 2,500--100--3,500 Gun.: IL Senior officers, whether in headqultrters or liaison officers, with a rank not lower than that of Major, except in the case of officers already employed in such senior posts:- Re. Pay_________________________________________ 1,500-75--1,800 1,800-100-2,300 G&.UIB llL Junior (A'wan) officers):- Re. Pay________________________________________ 900--50--1~ 1,200--75--1,800 R.!:KAllKS. If the officer under grade III holds the rank of Captain, his salary shall commence at Re. 1 .200, and it he holds the rank of full Lieutenant or has more than seven years' service to his credit, his salary shall commence at Bs. 1,000. General Note. (l) An officer already in the service of the Iraq Government who Is appointed to any post mentioned in this schedule and similar in grade to that in which he is serving at the time of such appointment shall be placed in the grade prescribed for the post at such a point as will give him a total salary not less than the salury which be Is drawing at the time of signing the new contract. In calculating such salary regard shall be had to the number ot mol'ths which he has sen-ed towards the new increment due under his old contract. (li.) In order to enable them to meet the extra expense which will be involved by payment ot rent, lighting and conservancy charges, married officers stationed in Bagdad, Basrah or Mos-ul, and drawing pay at the rate ot less than Rs. 1,500 per mensem shall he granted a personal allowance, to be absorbed in future increments, of Rs. 150, or such portion of Re. 150 as shall bring their salary up to Bs. 1,500 per mensem. IN WITNESS OF WHICH the respective j>lenipotentiaries have affixAd their signatures ther~to. Done at Bagdad in duplicate this 25th dt j of March, 1924, of the Christian era, corresponding with the 19th day of Sha'ban, 1342, Hijrah. H. DOBns, His Britanmc Majesty's High OommisBioner for Iraq. JA'FAR AL 'AsKARI, P1"hne Minister of the Iraq Government. . No.4 . MiJ,ito:ry Agreement 'ITU1/.k under Article 7 of the Treaty of Allia~ between, Great Britain and Iraq of Ootober 10, 1gefJ. We, the undersigned filpotentiaries of His Britannic Majesty and of ~ Majesty the . of Iraq respectively, having been duly authorised, met together this 25th day of March, 1924, oorrespond- ing to the 19th day of Sha'ban, 1342, in order to sign the following