ملف ٤٦٧٣\ ١٩١٩ الجزء ١ "الخليج الفارسي:- زيارة نجل شيخ البحرين + مجموعة إلى إنجلترا. الترتيبات العامة + الإجراءات. مقدار التكاليف." [و‎‎١‎٣‎٢] (٤٩٤/٢٤١)

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dependency, having a public revenue of its own, the Home Government has
stood, and still stands, for the purposes which we have to consider^ in
exactlv the same relation towards that country as towards any other member
of the British Empire which has a separate exchequer and a separate
political organization. Invitations to Indian guests could thenceforward only
be issued in the name of the Home Government ; and that Government
must necessarily be regarded as having assumed, with the duty of issuing
invitations, the responsibility for the charge which they entail.
7. We do not think that this view, which is in accordance with the usages
of hospitality as universally recognized, requires any argument to support
it * and we consider that henceforward the incidence of charge and the method
of procedure, in respect of the guests of the Home Government, should be one
and the same, whether the guests are Indian or Colonial.
8. As regards the incidence of charge, this implies that all the costs of
entertainment m this country will be borne by the Home Government. It
should however, be distinctly understood that His Majesty s Government wi
not be responsible for the cost of the journeys of their guests to or from this
country. AH charges of this kind should fall either upon the revenues of India
or of the Colony concerned, or else upon the individual guest, according to
- circumstances.
9 As regards the method of procedure, the initiative will naturally be
taken,‘in the case of Indian guests, by the India Office, and, in the case ot
Colonial guests, by the Colonial Office. It will he tor these Offices, before any
invitation is issued, to submit to the Treasury such proposals as they may
from time to time think fit to make as to the expenditure to be incurred on
account of those whom it is proposed to invite, together with all necessary
information as to their rank and position, the proposed duration of their stay,
an estimate of the cost of their entertainment with such details as it may be
oossible to <nve beforehand, and any other facts or suggestions bearing on the
question The invitations will then be issued through the India Office or the
Colonial Office, as the case may be.
10 In cases in which considerable numbers of troops, or other guests who
^Colonial Contingents were ie^i e a f we think that in future
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considered on its merits.
11. The Political Aide-de-Camp to_ theSecretary IndiaJ.U,
we presume, be placed, subject to tie gts . an d an officer of the
the arrangements for the entertainment 0 . . ? reo . a ’ rd t0 Colonial guests.
Colonial Office will occupy a sum h. e ffome Exchequer for all the
But this will not affect the exclusive liability of the Home u q
expenditure which may be incurred.
+ no tn V»p necessary to enter into any further
12. It does not appear to us J <renera l agreement in the
details on this subject. But vye desire . let J er from the Government
opinions and arguments contained m * • ;f consider it to be
of India, dated the 23rd October 1902 , ami, we y
* No. 6 above
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