Coll 29/42 'Diplomatic and consular expenditure: contribution (from Indian revenues) towards cost of a British Chaplain at Tehran; Christian cemeteries in Persia and the Persian Gulf' [‎341r] (680/704)

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APPENDIX.
BRITISH CEMETERIES ABROAD.
13332/88.
Treasury Chambers,
o 24th August 1888.
I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury to state
that their attention has been drawn to the constant applications for public expenditure
on Cemeteries or individual graves or monuments in foreign countries or British Loiomes.
The enclosed Return shows the actual expenditure for such services, out ot the Vote tor
Diplomatic and Consular Buildings, in the 10 years 1878-9 to 1887-8, but ^ ^sjiot
show various like expenses which, during the same period, may have been charged finally
to Consular or Diplomatic or Army or Navy Votes, nor does it record various applications
which have been declined by this Department, or are still under consideration.
My Lords are anxious that the several Departments concerned,viz., the h oreign ( ^mce,
Colonial Office, Admiralty, War Office, and Works, should arrive, in concert with this
Department, at a common policy in dealing with such charges, and especial y s ou ,
if possible, agree to place some definite term on the duration of certain of them, i
n0 My Lords, with this view, suggest that an officer should be nominated to represent your
Department on a committee which might report on the subject to the Treasury.
r I am, &c.,
(Signed) R. E. Welby.
Note. The Return mentioned in the above letter has not been printed. The total expenditure shown by it
amounted to 8,729i. 12s. 2d.
Sir,
20024/88.
Treasury Chambers,
21st December 1888.
I am directed by the Lords Commissioners'of Her Majesty’s Treasury to inform
you that the following gentlemen have been nominated to serve on the proposed Inter-
Departmental Committee on British Cemeteiies Abroa .
f ^h^HoTc^W^Fremantle, C.B., Deputy Master and ComptroUer of the Mint.
For the Foreign Office:— ^ A ^ +
Sir Clement Hill, K.C.M.G., an Assistant Clerk in that Department.
For the Colonial Office :— ^ A -pt *
Mr. A. W. L. Hemming, C.M.G., Principal Clerk in that Department.
^Mr! G A B^Bloimt, of the Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy.
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For the War Office :—
Lt.-Col. G. E. Grover, R.E., an Assistant Director of Works.
For the Office of Works :—
Mr. H. W. Primrose, C.S.I., Secretary to that Department.
I am to add that my Lords hope that the Committee may be able to arrange for
meeting at an early date. ^ ^ ^
(Signed) R. E. Welby.