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Dear Mr. Ranee,
MIDDLE EAST CENTRE FOR ARAB STUDIES,
AUSTRIAN HOSPICE,
JERUSALEM.
th December 19U6.
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No 7^0
P.R.O. Bahrein Accounts through G. of I.
Treasury. 19U1/43.
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Thank you very much for your D.0.C/il33 dated
7th October last, sending me a statement of my drawings on
M. of I. Account through the Bahrein Treasury, December 19I|.l
to October 1943- Will you be so good as to amplify one or
two items for me please.
(i) Is the list you have sent me a complete list of all
payments made during the period in question please? For
instance, M* of I. entertainment in Bahrein is not mentioned,
how much, if any, was brought to account specifically in
M. of I. accounts through you. Entertainment incurred on
tours was doubtless brought to account in my travelling claim,
but there is no mention in your list of Entertainment
incurred in Bahrein itself. Can you kindly elucidate.
Jassim Muhammed, who was my chief clerk at the time (he is
now I understand political representative on the Trucial
coast) would doubtless remember. Similarly "Advances" made
me when proceeding on official tours._ Paragraph 2 refers.
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2- M. of I. auditors who are winding up M. of I,
was accounts in London have lately raised a query on the
travelling_allowance paid at Bahrein for my tour"to Cairo
(dates include recess in North Africa), and return to
Bahrein, 20th July to 27th September 1943. The item which
appears in your statement of drawings 30/10/43 Rps.1086/10/8
refers. As you will be aware the practice of your Treasury
in Bahrein, vis-a-vis P.R.O.'s tours, was to make an advance
to me on the eve of my tour as a Personal Advance, and I
accounted for it as olilcial expenditure on return from the
tour in the form of travelling allowance claim. The Auditor
has brought to^jny notice that an advance is shewn to me on
the 18th July on the eve of the tour, of Rps.1000; that the
travelling claim of Rps.1086/10/8 claimed at the end of the
tour has in this particular instance not been shewn against
the advance, but as though it had been paid in cash to me in
addition to the advance. This, of course, could scarcely be
the case, as it is against normal practice, and your Treasurer
would have required me to account for the July advance before
making any fresh payment to me, but the fact is that the
auditor's book, presumably built up on the vouchers you would
send back through the Government of India, shews the double
charge: I shall be grateful therefore if you will check up
in your Bahrein accounts and confirm that, as was the
invariable practice, the travelling allowance must have been
offset against the Advance, or else the advance otherwise
accounted for. Some clerical omission somewhere would
account for it but you will appreciate that three years
after the event, serving in other jobs and countries, I
have no detailed records with me. Clearly when I drew the
next payment from the Treasurer in Bahrein he would have
drawn my attention to any outstanding advance unaccounted
tor; that there was none I am certain, when I left,
■ti.D.H.Ranee t Esq .
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