Coll 29/35 'Quarantine medical officer at Lingah in 1928-29; cost of retention' [‎21r] (41/46)

206 b
3000 7.31
Reference Paper.
Accountant-General’s Department.
A.G. No. 3863/31.
lice. 193 .
Referred to the Political Secretary.
17th April, 1931 .
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*No. See P.6152/30.
In their letter dated 30th March, A.G.3863/31
flagged, the Foreign Office raise queries on the
Diplomatic and Consular expenditure in Persian account
for 1928-29. Reference is invited to paragraph 4 in
which enquiry is made as to whether it was not the
intention of the Government of India to bear the cost
of continuing for six months the quarantine staff in
the Gulf after the formal transfer of the service to
Persia. In forwarding the Indian statement for the
year, a spare copy of which is annexed for retention,
this Department quoted as reference against the charge
of Rs.3,850 for the Assistant Surgeon^ pay (under
Lingah) Political Department letter P.3777/28 dated
21st July 1928 to the Foreign Office. The Political
Secretary will presumably deal with this paragraph of
the Foreign Oflice letter, (*the enquiry in which seems
to apply equally to the question of the retention of
the Assistant Surgeon at Bandar Abbas, to which no
allusion is made).
Has the Political Secretary any observations to
offer on paragraphs 5 and 6 of the Foreign Office
letter before the points in these and the remainder of
the letter are taken up with the Indian authorities?
The spare copy of the letter, immediately below,
may be retained if desired.
(Sd.) G.E. YOUHG.