مجموعة ٢٩ /٨٦ "النفقات الدبلوماسية والقنصلية: المقدار؛ المراجعة؛ الشؤون العامة" [و‎‎١‎٤‎٧] (٥٦١/٢٩٣)

it is this indefiniteness and the unlimited extent of
their possible financial liabilities under the present
concern and which they are most anxious to remove. The
proposals which follow aim particularly at defining,
limiting and stabilising the Government of India’s future
financial liabilities towards Iran and the Persian Gulf,
and I am to invite His Majesty’s Government to give them
their early and most earnest consideration.
7. The proposals which follow proceed on the
assumption that the request of the Government of India for
relief in respect of one-half of the present expenditure
on Bahrein and Muscat which was put forward in their
letter No .F.546.IV/33, da ted the 16th January 1936, to the
8 . Broadly speaking, the present financial arrange
and the Government of India incur in Iran and the Persian
Gulf over and above the expenditure respectively so incurred
in 1900-01 is shared in equal proportions. Koweit
expenditure is separately shared. Using the figures for
1934-35, the arrangement works as follows:-
Moiety repayable by Foreign Office ... 8,927 17 5
system which gives the Government of India the greatest
India Office, will be agreed to
ment is that the expenditure which His Majesty’s Government
Rupee expenditure
converted at ls. 6 d.
the rupee (expendi
ture by India Office
on telegrams to
Persia is shown as
a separate item in
the actual claim).
Indian expenditure 62,776 12 1
at 30th Septr.1900 23,894 11 9
-do- -do-
pshsll £ 3 . d
Difference
38,882 0 4
Foreign Office
-do- -do-
expenditure 42,808 1 5
in 1900-01 21,781 15 11
Difference
21,026 5 6
17,885 14 10
Excess of Indian expenditure
Moiety of expenditure
3,918 13 2
Total payable by the Foreign Office. 12,846 10 7
f;o . [ 55,6 S 4
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