80
Additional Approviments Expenditur, incurred in England
ascertained locally
Service
Pay, &c, of officers drawn through Agents Value of stores from England to C.RE Value of stores from England to C00
Total
Expenditur, not ascertainable locally
Capitation rate for native infantry, recovered by India
Office from War Office
Freight on stores received from England
Enclosure 2 in No 197
s far as can be
17785
Amount in sterling
L
5
J
€6,03% { 0
3.474 0 0
13.500 0 O
SIR
€23,012 0 0
STATEMENT of Expenditure incurred by Great Britain for the Military Protection. and in Aid of Civil Establishments for the year ending 31st December, 1906
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No 108.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS
COLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE.
[Answered by No. 109.]
Downing Street, 23 May, 1907.
I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to forward to you, to be laid before the Army Council, the enclosed copy of a despatch* from the Governor of the Straits Settlements, asking for certain information with regard to the cost of the garrison of that Colony in the years 1905 and 1906.
2.
Lord Elgin would be glad if he might be furnished with the figures which Sir John Anderson desires.
3.
I am to request you to be so good as to return the enclosures to the despatch with your reply.
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I am, &c.,
H W. JUST.
11
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :---
C.O. 882
9
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH—NOT TO
Vol. Hondang-
Local Expenditure -VETT
Vote 1, Pay, &c., of Troops ...
Vote 2, Pay, &c., of Medical Establishments Vote 6, Transport
---
Vote 7, Provisions, Forage, Clothing, &c.
Vote 8, Warlike and other Stores
Vote 9, Armaruent, Engineer Stores
Vote 10, Works, Buildings, Military Works Loan
Vote 11, Education
Vote 12, Miscellaneous
Vote 13, Army Accounts Department
Vote 15, Pensions
Expenditure in Sterling after deducting receipt
Remarks.
£ a. d.
79,347 0 0
2,762 0 Q 13,355 0
(
30,816 0 4 1.987 " 0
20.451 0 0
249 0 385 0 0 1,183 0 O 230 0 {1
150,768 0
Deduct Receipts in excess of Expenditure Vote ?
346 {1 [1
Total Local Expenditure Neti
150,422 0
"
The value of the dollar
was as follows :—
1st January to 31st
March 2x. Id. From 1st April = 28. 4.
Additional Approximate Expenditure incurred in England so far as can he
ascertained locally.
Service.
Pay, &c, of officers drawn through Agents Value of stores from England to C.R.E. Value of stores from England to (1.0.0.
Expenditure not ascertainable locally
Transport of troops from England Capitation rate for native infantry recovered by India
+
Office from War Office Freight on stores received from England
Army Accounts Office,
Singapore,
6 February,
1907.
Amount in sterling.
£3,456
2,687 14.800
J. BARBOUR,
D. P..
SIR,
No. 109.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received 3 June, 1907.)
[Copy to Governor, 13 June, 1907. No. 166. L.F.] [Answered by No. 110.]
War Office, London, S.W., 3rd June, 1907.
I AM commanded by the Army Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 23rd instant, forwarding copy of a despatch in which the Governor of the Straits Settlements asks for certain information with regard to the cost of the garrison of that Colony in the years 1905 and 1906.
In reply, I am to observe that a statement of the annual cost of the garrison in each financial year ending 31st March is furnished to your Department for communi- cation to the Colonial Government, and to express the Council's regret that they are unable to give the particulars now asked for under calendar years.
I am, at the same time, to send you the enclosed copy of recent correspondence in which the Council informed the General Officer Commanding the Troops that while there was no objection to his supplying information as to local expenditure, it was undesirable that he should attempt to supply the Colonial Government with information as to expenditure which does not pass through the books of his command. It is presumed that the General Officer Commanding, before saying that the figures for local expenditure are of no possible use to the Colonial Government, had
The enclosures of the Governor's despatch are returned herewith, as requested.
I am, &c.,
consulted the Governor.
SIR,
E. W. D. WARD.
د
13th February, 1907.
Enclosure 1 in No. 109.
The DISTRICT PAYMASTER, Straits Settlements, to the SECRETARY, War Office. Returns of Expenditure.
THE Colonial Government of the Straits Settlements have applied for a return, which is not ascertainable locally, showing the cost from the 1st January to 31st December, 1905, of-
(a) The Indian native regiment stationed here.
(6) Freight paid in England on stores and troops despatched to Singapore.
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