Coll 29/27 'Resht: office allowance and minor charges; including establishment of a career consulate' [‎68v] (136/196)

an amount not exceeding £100 per annum in the aggregate
at any one consulate;
jq . Increased expenditure on contingencies except as
regards an unusual itan exceeding £100, and
iii . Increased expenditure on travelling.
(2) For any addition to the office allowances and
other contract grants of any Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. or. consulate in
Persia, except temporary overdrafts not exceeding Rs.250
at any Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. or Consulate, such overdrafts being
adjusted by debit against the contract grants sanctioned
for the ensuing financial year.
Ft any increase of expenditure not covered by the
exceptions mentioned above, the F.O. have to obtain the
concurrence of the S. of S, for I. while the G. of !• have
to obtain the concurrence of the Imperial Government^though
this is actually described in the regulations (now
incorporated in the rules appended to the Central Audit
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Resolution^ as the sanction of the S. of S. for 1.
It would appear then that it is purely a matter
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of discretion whether the G. of I. should be consulted or hot ^
consulted by this office in cases of this kind. In the
present case the F.G. were bound by the rules to obtain our
concurrence for an increased office allowance at Resht.
Although the increased amount,to be incurred by Indian revenues
is small (about £13 more than last year, or £33 more than
1924), it might be as well to consult India as proposed, a|s
neither this Department nor the A.G.’s Department can find
any record of the fixing of the allowance in 1924. At any
rate it can do no harm.
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