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Mr. Robinson to Mr. Cooper.
F. 6821. 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. ,
Dear Cooper, 18tli July 1917.
Your note of 17tli January last, No. 121 Finance 794, regarding the
Egyptian Labour Corps for Mesopotamia. I enclose a copy of a telegram
from the Government of India, and shall be glad to know whether the charges
for the Mauritius Corps may be adjusted in a similar manner.
Yours sincerely,
C. W. Cooper, Esq. \Y. Robinson.
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Controller of War Accounts, Simla, 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. 1964 A.13. Simla,
Sir, 20th July 1917.
I have the honour to inform you that, owing to the substitution of
two separate Directorates of (1) Port Administration and Conservancy, and
(2) Inland Water Transport for a Directorate-General of Port Administration
and. River Conservancy in Mesopotamia (yida copy of General Routine Order
No. 76, dated the 30th January 1917, attached), I have instructed the
Field Controller of Military Accounts, Poona, to open a new head “ 10 ( 6 )
Inland Water Transport ” in the Appendix to his Field Classified Abstract,
with effect from the account for April 1917, the existing head “10 (u) Port
Administration and River Conservancy ” being altered to “ 10 (a) Port
Administration and Conservancy.”
I have, &c.,
The Under Secretary of State 13. N. Mitra,
for India. Controller of- War Accounts, R.S.I3.
Enclosure in above.
Copy op General Routine Order No. 76, dated the 30m January 1917.
Quartermaster General's Branch.
76. Hie Director-General of Port Administration and River Conservancy
will henceforth be styled the Director of Port Administration and Conservancy
and in accordance with the General Instructions from the War Office, and
sections 22 and 23 of the F.S.R., Part 11, the responsibilities of the Director
of Inland W ater Transport and Port Administration and Conservancy will
be in future as follows :—
1 .—The Director of Inland Water Transport.
(a) The organisation and control of the Inland W'ater Transport fleet and
personnel.
_ (h) The management of the Port Traffic and Port Craft other than sea
going craft, including the discharge of ocean steamers, subject to the rules
of the Port.
(c) Construction of dockyards, repair and construction yards, river craft
piers, buoying and lighting above the ocean port, and of the Karnu river,
control of navigation of river and river craft pilots, and such river works as
may from time to time be ordered.
2 .—The Director of Port Administration and Conser'vancy.
(a) Control of the ocean port and port personnel other than that belonging
to the port craft.
(b) ' Port of River Engineering Works and River Conservancy, other than
piers for river craft within the limits of the ocean port.
(c) Such special engineering works as may from time to time be ordered.