PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:
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Enclosure in No 56.
Admiralty, S.W, 5th January, 1905. WITH reference to your letter of the 3rd ultimo enquiring whether it is still considered necessary to maintain Trincomalee as a defended port, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to state for the information of the Army Council that it is not intended to keep any stores there, in future and in these circumstances they see no need for maintaining any fixed defences or garrison there
in peace
The Secretary,
War Office, S.W
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SIR.
No. 57.
CEYLON
COLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE.
[Answered by No. 60,]
I am, &c.
CI THOMAS
Downing Street, 17 January, 1905. WITH reference to your letter of the 21st of April last.* I am directed by Mr Secretary Lyttelton to transmit to you, to be laid before the Army Council, the accompanying transcript of an Ordinancet passed by the Legislature of Ceylon entitled "An Ordinance to amend The Defence. Contribution Ordinance, 1898
Subject to any observations which the Council may wish to offer, the Secretary of State proposes to inform the Governor of Ceylon that His Majesty will not be advised to exercise his powers of disallowance in respect of this Ordinance
I am, &c..
CP LUCAS.
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No. 59.
MAURITIUS.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received January 27, 1905.)
Answered by No. 62.]
Government flouse, Mauritius, 12th December, 1904. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 250, of the 3rd October last,* and to state, in reply to the last paragraph thereof, that the only occasion since 1897 when capital expenditure on the construction of new railway lines paid out of general revenue was deducted in part or in whole from the railway revenue for the purpose of calculating the military contribution was during the financial year 1902-03, when the sum of Rs. 64,478.15 was so deducted. The contribution for 1903-04 has not yet been finally adjusted, but this question will not arise in an active form in respect of that year, as the ordinary working and main- tenance expenses of the railway for that period exceed in themselves the revenue derived from the undertaking The actual expenditure on the construction of new railway lines during 1903-04 will. however, be accurately calculated and noted, in order that the allowed percentage thereon may, if the opportunity offers, be deducted from railway revenue (in addition to the ordinary expenditure) during the period contemplated by the new Ordinance, when the latter shall have become law. I shall defer proceeding with the Bill until I shall have received your instructions as to the adjustment of the amount of Rs. 64.478 15 deducted from railway revenue in 1902-03 in the circumstances above mentioned.
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No. 60.
CEYLON.
I have, &c..
CAVENDISH BOYLE.
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No. 59.
CEYLON.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR. [Copy to Admiralty, 25 March, 1905,] [Answered by No. 69,]
Downing Street, 25 January, 1905. SIR.
WITH reference to my secret despatch of the 13th January, I have the honour to transmit a copy of a letter§ from the Admiralty with regard to Trincomalee.
2. As both the Admiralty and War Office state that the telegraphic instructions received by the Chief Ordnance Officer, to which you refer in your telegram of the 2nd instant, were not despatched by them, I should be glad if you would cause enquiries to be made as to the exact wording, date of despatch, and signature of the telegram in question in order that it may be ascertained by whom it was sent.
I have, &c.,
ALFRED LYTTELTON.
SIR,
WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 2 February, 1905.)
War Office, London, S.W., 2nd February, 1905. REFERRING to your letter. No. 688/1904-5, dated 17th ultimo,t I am com- manded by the Army Council to acquaint you that they have no observations to offer regarding the transcript of the Ordinance passed by the Legislature of Ceylon, entitled an Ordinance to amend "The Defence Contribution Ordinance. 1898." which was forwarded with the letter under reply.
I have, &c..
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SIR,
No. 61.
MAURITIUS.
COLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE.
E. W. D. WARD.
Downing Street, 6 February, 1905. WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 17th of May last,
I am directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to transmit to you, for the information of the Army Council, the accompanying copies of correspondence§ with the Governor of Mauritius respecting the deduction of 4 per cent. for 50 years on the capital expenditure from revenue on railways when calculating the net railway revenue for the purposes of the military contribution.
I am, &c.,
H. BERTRAM COX.
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L. F. transmitting copy of No. 54.
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