ملف رقم ٦٣٦ لسنة ١٩٠٧ "شبه الجزيرة العربية تحت الحكم العثماني: القنصلية في بغداد. السيد جاسكين (المساعد التجاري). الاحتجاز من قبل السلطات التركية (١٩١٤-١٩١٨). تسوية الحسابات." [و‎‎٩‎٦] (٦١٦/٢٠٢)

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No. 21 or 1916.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
POEEIGN AND POLITICAL DEPARTMENT.
WAR.
To
The Right Honourable AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN,
His Majesty's Secretary of State for India,
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Delhi, the 31st March 1916.
Sir,
We have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 74
(Political), dated the 9th July 1915, enquiring whether the Government of
India were prepared to accept as a charge
to Indian revenues the expenditure*
incurred on account of advances made in Decemher 1914 by the United States
Consular officers in Turkey to certain members of the staff of the late British
No. 99 (Political), dated the 27 th August 1915 . Residency at Baghdad, as also of your
No. no (Political), dated the 22 nd October 1915 . subsequent despatches marginally cited
intimating that you have accepted claims amounting to £172 10s. 6d. and
£42 19s. 5d., respectively, as charges upon the Indian Exchequer.
2. After due consideration we desire to express our readiness to accept
as a charge to Indian revenues the expenditure incurred in connection with the
maintenance and travelling expenses of His Majesty's late Vice-Consul at
Kerbala and the staff of the late British Residency at Baghdad. But in res
pect of the sum of £18 18s. 8d. representing the expenditure incurred on
behalf of Mr. J. C. Gaskin, late Assistant for Trade and Commerce to His
Britannic Majesty’s Consul-General at Baghdad, we would suggest that, as a
moiety of Mr. Gaskin’s salary is chargeable to Imperial Revenues, His
Majesty’s Government should bear half the expenditure in question, viz.,
£9 9s. 4d. and, in the event of your agreeing, we would request that this
amount may be recovered and credited to Indian revenues.
We have the honour to be,
Sir,
Tour most obedient, humble servants,
(Signed)
HARDINGE of PENSHURST.
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