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'Persia. Incidence of (1) Cost of South Persia Rifles and (2) Political Expenditure in Persia.' [125v] (8/8)
The record is made up of 1 file (4 folios). It was created in 15 Sep 1917-4 Oct 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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A very practical point is the necessity of persuading the Treasury to
repay us one-hall of the expenditure actually incurred on the South Persia
Rifles. Have you yet received from the Government of India a reasoned
statement of that expenditure? As matters stand the Treasury profess
themselves unwilling to pay because their sanction to the various items of
expenditure was not obtained. I presume that they will not maintain this
attitude if satisfactory details of the scheme are once before them. It will
be noted that the Government of India have stated that the purely military
expenditure mixed up with Sir Percy Sykes’s expenditure is being separately
charged to the Imperial Government in the War Accounts.
3. Secret Service Money, in so jar as not required for Military Pur
poses ,—The half-and-half principle seems legal and appropriate. The
Government of India might he asked to submit their amended statement as
soon as possible. It is not clear whether the objections made by the
Comptroller and Auditor-General cover these payments. Perhaps not.
4. Subsidies and Loans during present War .—The equal division seems
to me reasonable and legal, but here again the opinion of the Legal Adviser
might be taken.
W. Ro HINSON.
15th September 1917.
II.
Note ry Legal Adviser,
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
, dated 4th October 1917.
1. The question at issue with the Government of India seems rather to
be one of fact than of law, because it raises the point whether certain
expenditure--^., in connection with the South Persia Rifles, and the
eisian subsidies and loans lull within the operation of the Parliamentary
Resolutions, and this point depends upon the nature of the expenditure
whether it is to be regarded as civil expenditure incurred for the purposes
of the eventual good government of India, or whether it is in its essence
military expenditure incurred for the purpose of military operations carried
on .beyond the external frontiers of His Majesty’s possessions.
2. 1 he point last mentioned is really a question of fact, upon which I
am nardly competent to express an opinion. 1 may say, however, that so far
as can jui ge t le financial Secretary has succeeded in making out his case
as regards the item of the South Persia Rifles. The expenditure under this
ic.id does not seem to me to have been incurred for a military purpose.
3 If the same can be said as to the matter of the subsidies and loans,
then I agree with his conclusion that the expenditure on this head also
m~ m ,’ e „r Cgar( ! e, f a T C r Vl1 cx I jeudlture undertaken for the purposes of the
good government of India.
bofhYLTfni] iol T ,f tl thes 'i fact> ' ar * conceded that the expenditure under
India Act bn ’ a s l‘ r ‘ ‘ p, ; r '; le "' of Section 22 of the Government of
in iia Act, but under Section JO of that Act
4th October 1917. SaLE-
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This file consists of a report relating both to the cost of the South Persia Rifles and to the overall political expenditure in Persia. Specifically, the file is concerned with how such costs should be shared between the Government of India and the Treasury.
The report is mostly comprised of a note by William Robinson, Secretary to the Financial Department of the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , which is dated 15 September 1917 and written in response to the Viceroy's Financial Department's telegram of 8 June 1917. Robinson's note is followed by a shorter note by Sir Stephen George Sale, Legal Adviser, India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , dated 4 October 1917.
Robinson's note responds to assertions made by the Comptroller and Auditor-General in India [Sir Reginald Arthur Gamble] that the existing arrangement between the Government of India and the Treasury in relation to the incidence of expenditure on the South Persia Rifles (also referred to as the South Persian Rifles in this file) is unfair to the Government of India.
Robinson summarises the existing arrangement, which is based on the understanding that diplomatic and consular expenditure in Persia should be shared equally between the British Indian and Imperial Governments. Robinson goes on to recount that this arrangement has in practice been applied to various other kinds of expenditure, including the costs of the South Persia Rifles and the allocation of subsidies and loans to the Persian Government. Robinson concludes that the half-and-half principle, as applied both to the costs of the South Persia Rifles and to the subsidies and loans, is both reasonable and legal. In his note, Sale opines that if Robinson is correct in concluding that neither case should be classified as military expenditure then both should be regarded as civil expenditure undertaken for the purposes of the good government of India.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 122, and terminates at f 125, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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