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Sir,
P. 2824.
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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 Foreign Office.
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. ,
wvi r n 4th July 1918.
VVitii reierence to the correspondence ending with your letter of thp
12tli September 1917, No. W. 174605/17, relative to the control and audit
of expenditure m the administered territories in Mesopotamia, I am directed
by the Secretary of State for India to enclose for the information of the
1 Dated 17tli April 1918. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
, c . a a demi-official letter 1 from
the Secretary to the Government of India, Finance Department, explainino-
the procedure which the Government of India propose to adopt in sanctioning
such expenditure. •
A copy of the Secretary of State’s telegram of 16th December 1914 is
enclosed for convenience of reference.
A copy of the Government of India’s letter of 13th April 1917, was
forwarded to you with my letter of 19th July 1917, P. 2158.
I have, &c.,
The Under Secretary of State J. E. Shuckburgh.
Foreign Office.
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Treasury to Foreign Office.
ht -k 10 'Treasury Chambers,
My Lor r d ; , •,, ■ 24th J«iy Isis.
1 have laid before the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury
Sir \V. Langley’s letter of the 8th instant (1.18105/W/44), with enclosures’
relative to the procedure which the Government of India proposes to adopt
in sanctioning expenditure in the administered territories in Mesopotamia.
. ^ n . I am f° request you to inform Mr. Secretary Balfour that
I heir Lordships have no information as to the extent of the authority
proposed to be delegated to the Government of India. While they have
no desire to be consulted on matters of administrative routine, They think
that, so long as the ultimate financial responsibility rests on the British
Exchequer, this Department should be consulted on any expenditure of
large amount or of a discretionary character in which questions of policy
are involved ; and it. is not clear to Them that this ia secured under the
procedure proposed.
The Under Secretary of State,
Foreign Office.
I am, &c.,
Robert Chalmers.
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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 Mr. H. F. Howard.
P. 3343. 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 Sir, 19th August 1918.
Please refer to your demi-official Letter No. 510-E.B., dated 17th
April last, to the Financial Secretary, 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. , about the control and
audit of expenditure in Mesopotamia.
A copy of our letter, forwarding your letter to the Foreign Office, was
2 m , -p ^ , , , sent to you on the 11th July, and I now
24th July 1918. enclose a copy of the reply 2 from the
Treasury. The Government of India
will, it is presumed, be ready to comply with the wishes of the Treasury in
the matter.
Yours, &c.,
The Hon. Mr. H. F. Howard, C.I.E. C. A. Kemball.