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Annex.
Treasury to Foreign Office.
No. 6G20. Treasury Chambers,
g' r 17th April 1909.
I have laid before the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s
Treasury Mr. Langley’s letter of the 25th ultimo (10,466/09), respecting
proposals made by the Government of India as to the payment in Persian
currency at a fixed rate of exchange of the rupee salaries of the non-
gazetted Consular Establishments and of the Telegraph Staff in Persia.
In reply I am to request 3 r ou to inform Sir Edward Grey that while
my Lords regret that they were not consulted before any part of the
proposed scheme was put into execution, they will not refuse to bear
their portion of the loss which has actually been incurred. I am,
however, to suggest, for the consideration of the Secretary of State,
whether a more satisfactory solution of the difficulty would not be found
by fixing salaries in these cases in local currency, rather than in rupees
to be converted at a fixed rate. Cases not already settled, and future
cases arising, might then perhaps be dealt with by converting the
salaries at rates of exchange more nearly corresponding to the existing
ratio between the kran and the rupee, provided that those rates are not
more unfavourable to the Exchequer than the late of Kians 3/5 to
Rupees 100 proposed by the Government of India.
I am, &c.,
The Under Secretary of State, G. H. Murray.
Foreign Office.
Enclosure No. 3.
India Office to Foreign Office.
India Office,
4th June 1909.
In reply to your letter No. 14,702, dated the 27th April 1909
isking for the observations of the Secretary of StMe foi Incia in ounci
is to the proposals of the Lords Commissioners of His Majes \ s leasury
•egarding the manner of payment by the Government o nc la o ie
salaries of the non-gazetted consular establishments and o t e e egrap
staff in Persia, I am directed to
* Dated 4th June 1909. enclose, for the information of the
Secretary of State for Foreign
\lfairs, copy of a Despatch'’-' addressed to the Government of India on the
subject. . , x .
A further communication will be made to \ou when e icpoi
referred to in the penultimate paragraph of the Despatc i as een
received. _ p
j am, tvc.,
The Under Secretary of State, Goblia.
Foreign Office.