ملف ٨٠ لسنة ١٩١٣، الجزء ١، "عربستان: خط التلغراف" [و‎‎٧‎٣] (٣٩٢/١٥٠)

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first instalment payable by the India Office to the
19000 x-23000
Foreign Office*C 18 + 2 where the total cost
£
of the work, and to make the other seventeen instalments
f 9000 ^ x-500
„ 18 “£300 each instead of making each instalment ' 2
as proposed by the Treasury. It is very unlikely that
x- 500 0
2 will prove to be a sum of which one eighteenth part
will equal <£801.13.4 and it will most likely prove to be a
sum which is indivisible by eighteen i.e.a sum which-if
divided by eighteen would introduce a more or less complex
fraction of a penny.
If (a) and an instalment of (b) are paid by the Foreign
Office at once, the next further payment will be one of
£150 in January 1915 to be followed by a third instalment
of the same amount in January 1916. Then comes the payment
x~ 50 00
of 2 by the Foreign Office some time in 1916.
In January 1917,. if the suggestion I have made be adopted
and on the same date the Foreign Office will pay the India
Office the fourth instalment of (b) making a net payment by
In January 1918 and on to January 1934 the India Office
will pay the Foreign Office a net sum annually of £350 and
from January 1935/the loan by the British Exchequer having by
then been redeemed, to January 1945 the Foreign Office will
pay the India Office £150 annually.
A tabular statement is attached showing the sum due by the
Foreign Office to the India Office and vice versa for each
year from 1914 to 1945.
The receipts and payments of these sums will, I presume,
be adjusted by the Accountant General’s Office and transferred
to the Accountant General,?ost Office & Telegraphs, Calcutta^
for credit or debit to the Indo-European Telegraph Department.
As soon as the final details of the arrangement are settled,
I will intimate to the lacter the manner in which this matter ^
is to be dealt with.
18
~L 1 i tj Oti i VA GUI- J J. JL • # J- i W 11 w O O U J- W1J. _L .1 LCU V 1 ^ VX. v/ w
9000 X- 23000
the India Office will pay the Foreign Office 18 2
x-23000
the latter of £500^“ 2 ^ £150*