File 2626/1905 ‘Persia:- Military Attaché at Meshed’ [‎106r] (216/532)

ENCLOSURES.
Enclosure No. 1.
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. to Forekm Office.
Sir,
* Communicating copy of Secret De
spatch No. 22, dated 18th December 1908,
to the Government of India.
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. ,
_ * 16th September 1909.
With reference to previous correspondence, ending with the
letter' :i: ' of this Office dated the 21st
December last, as to the appoint
ment of Military Attache at Meshed,
I am directed to enclose copy of a
letter! from the Government of India, pointing out that, in addition to
•f t ++ a ta PW of the Military Attache,
T feecret Letter, Army Department, • r ^ n at o 1 a
No. 94, of the 12th August 1909. varying fiom oi4L 8s. to 927L 45.
a year according to rank, there
are certain miscellaneous expenses connected with the appointment
which should he shared, as in other analogous cases, equally between
the British and Indian Governments.
Viscount Morley regrets that this aspect of the matter has not
previously been brought to notice in the correspondence, but he trusts
that Secretary Sir E. Grey will see lit to represent it to the Lords
Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury, and move them to accept as a
charge against British revenues a moiety of the total expenditure
involved in the appointment.
That expenditure will have approximately amounted to 863Z. for the
period 21st October 1908 to 31st March 1909, and is likely to amount to
2,3121. during the current financial year.
I have, Ac.,
The Under Secretary of State, Colin G. Campbell.
Foreign Office.
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Enclosure No. 2.
Foreign Office to 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. .
No 34836. Foreign Office,
Sir, 30th September 1909.
I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 16th instant, in which you forward a copy of
a letter from the Government of India, pointing out that, in addition to
the pay of the Military Attache at Meshed, there are certain miscellaneous
expenses connected with the appointment which, in their opinion, should
be shared equally between the British and Indian Governments.
Sir E. Grey observes that the total expenditure during the current
financial year is thus likely to amount to 2,372k, or 1,445L more than
the maximum amount of pay which the Lords Commissioners of the
Treasury have agreed to share with the Indian Exchequer. He has
examined the items of this supplementary expenditure, and, after
careful consideration, he has arrived at the conclusion that it is not such
as he could properly recommend their Lordships to sanction. Apart
from the general considerations relating to the necessity for a substantial
reduction in the cost of the Indian Consular establishments in Persia, to
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