File 815/1917 Pt 9 'Persian Gulf:- Lights & Buoys. Expenditure – Claims against F.O.' [‎478r] (44/58)

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./1th xefereace to your lottery F 13752/21 of 15th
February, f 108^. of t)ie 13tli February and T 380 of the
13th haruii Irst relative to erjpenditure incurred on the
lighting and buoying of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , I mi directed
by the Farqueee Ouraon of Kedleaton to infom you that
a mm of twenty-eight thousand, one hundred and sixty-t-o
pounds, two shillings rnd eleven pence, plus eig;hty-ei. ht
pounds, nine shillings and eleven pence vp-s transferred
to the credit of the dec ret fay of to for Indin in
Council at the Bank of -ngland, on the 31st t rch lust.
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Sir,
It ■.fill be observed th- i tills does not represent the full
claim made by your department and I am to mske the following
observations.
2* The lords Cosmiseioners of Ilia Hojesty 1 o Treasury
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have now agreed to accept a moiety of the expenditure
incurred in 1918/9 in respect of the 1 cis Island light
vessel and the sum of eighty-eight pounds, nine shillings
end eleven pence was transferred accordingly.
3. In regard to the year 1919/20 a charge is
observed of the suri of one thous nd, seven hundred and
eight noundo, nineteen shillings? and eight pence, being the
moiety of Initial expenditure incurred in replacing the gas
buoys in the Shat-el-Arab by buoys on the Aga syotei .
Thai r/
The Under Secretary of State,
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. .