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With this despatch was transmitted the letter from which the following extract is taken :----
From the Auditor-General to the Colonial Secretary, Straits Settlements.
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State for India in Council, entirely reciprocates Lord Kimberley's views with regard to an equitable settlement of the unadjusted accounts between the two Departments consequent on the transfer of the Straits Settlements to the Colonial Department, and that his Grace concurs with Lord Kimberley in opinion that the matters which have been so long under discussion should be referred to an Arbitrator, whose selection can be subsequently decided upon.
I am, &c. (Signed)
M. E. GRANT DUFF.
APPENDIX FF.
Lord Eustace Cecil to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Surveyor-General's Department, War Ojoc, May 27, 1874.
I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 21st ultimo, on the subject of the transfer of the armaments and military stores in the Straita Settlements.
In reply I am to acquaint you, for the information of the Earl of Carnarvon, that
[The rest of this despatch is set out in full in the Caso, page 18.]
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Sir,
Audit Office, Singapore, October 15, 1871.
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The stock in question consisted of the following:-
Singapore.
Del. C
147 60
Small stores
Building materials (bricks and tiles at the kilns, made by convict labour) Timber (surplus of teak-wood from the Tanglin Barracks account) Metala.
6,941 72
4,220 50
1,717 78
Thatchers' materiais
9 25
Sir,
25 60
Painters' stores..
·14 00
House fittings
Cordage
Miscellaneous
7:30
#11 72
Penang.
Bricks at the kilna
288 84
Malacca.
181 95
13,660 91
Bricks at the kilns
Total
equal to rupees 30,054 : 0 : 2.
The question is whether such stock ought to be considered as property belonging to the Colony or not. Governor Sir H. Ord considered that it ought, on the grounds, as I understood, that it constituted a part of the necessary appliances for carrying on the administration of the Colony; and that it in no way differed in character from (to give the closest example) the stock of unused stationery in the different offices, or any other moveable property which was taken over at the transfer, and for which no charge was ever contemplated.
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APPENDIX CC.
Estract of a Letter from the Under-Secretary of State, India Office, to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated India Office, November 22, 1871.
"In reply to the letter from your Department of the 23rd March and 27th April, 1889, and with advertence to the correspondence which has taken place from the 28th January, 1867, the date of your first communication regarding financial details connected with the transfer of the administration of the Straits Settlements to the Colonial Office, to the 50th March, 1871, the date of my last letter to your address on that subject, I am directed by the Duke of Argyll to embody, for transmission to the Earl of Kimberley, and for his Lordship's guidance, the substance of a reply which has been received from the Government of India on various points submitted to that authority."
[The next passage is set out in full in the Case.]
In answer to the requisition made in compliance with your letter of the 28th February, 1871, the Government state that they are in possession of no further information than that contained in the detailed printed list forwarded as an inclosure to India Financial letter of the 26th August, 1869, and copy of which was communicated to the War Office as an accompaniment to my letter of the 18th September, 1870, and which appears to the Government of India to contain all the particulars desired."
The above extract is the only part of the above-mentioned letter which applies to this came.
APPENDIX DD.
The whole of this despatch is set out in the Case, page 16.
Sir,
Appendix EE.
Mr. Grant Duff to the Under-Secretary for the Colonies.
India Office, June 21, 1872.
I am directed by the Duke of Argyll to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th March and, in reply, to acquaint you, for the information of the Earl of Kimberley, that the Secretary of
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