مجموعة ٢٩ /٨٦ "النفقات الدبلوماسية والقنصلية: المقدار؛ المراجعة؛ الشؤون العامة" [ظ‎‎١‎٣‎٦] (٥٦١/٢٧٢)

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that the position should he re-examined
by His Majesty’s Government.
5* The Government of India, in
formulating their own proposals, proceed or.
the assumption that the proposal which they
have already made that expenditure on the
Bahrain and Muscat Agencies, at present
borne entirely by India, should be shared
equally between Indian and Imperial
revenues will be accepted by His Majesty’s
Government. Their viev/s on this matter
were supported by Lord Zetland in the
letter addressed to you on the 6th Nov.
*
1936, No. P.Z.7103/36. On the assumption,
therefore, that^their present liability
for expenditure in Persia and the Gulf area
*L)L< ^ MU,
limited in principle to one half.the
Government of India, with a view to setting
a limit to their expenditure over the next
five years (a point to which, as will be
seen from their letter^they attach great
importance), propose that their liability
should be fixed at an annual lump sum
contribution in respect of expenditure in
Persia and on the Arab shore of the Gulf for
that period, and that all expenditure
whatever, whether on capital or on revenue
account, in excess of that sum (with the
exception, of course, of expenditure on the
construction of the new Residency towards
which tney will contribute up to Rs.6 lakhs;
should be a charge on Imperial revenues.
Taking the average rate of expenditure for
the last three years for which accounts
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