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engagement, and the amount of subsistence allowance which you will receive during your absence from England, on your coming visit to the East and the Mediterranean. It is understood that you are desirous that your salary should be credited monthly to your account with the London and County Banking Company, 12, King Street, Hammersmith, W., and the Crown Agents for the Colonies have been asked to arrange the payments accordingly on receipt of your Power of Attorney in favour of your bankers.
The Crown Agents have also been authorised to pay to you, on demand, the sum of £20 as an outfit allowance.
You will be granted an allowance of 5s. per day for subsistence on sea, and of £1 on land, as well as the actual expenses of locomotion when free transit is not provided, and the Crown Agents have been requested to arrange for making you the necessary advances, full accounts to be rendered by you on your return.
It is understood that you will communicate at regular and frequent intervals with Mr. Mackinder, not only in order to report progress, but also as evidence for the Crown Agents that you are alive, and that the payments are being properly made to your bankers. In default of regular communication the payments will be
withheld.
Mr. Mackinder has been authorised to provide you with photographic material and apparatus to an amount not exceeding £100; this apparatus will, of course, remain the property of the Committee. The petty expenses already incurred by you will be reimbursed through Mr. Mackinder up to an amount not exceeding £15.
The Orient Mail Company are being asked to provide you with a passage to Colombo by the steamer leaving Marseilles on the 25th of October.
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that they have decided that he shall receive, from the 1st ultimo, salary at the rate of £25 per month, for a period of three years. On receipt of his Power of Attorney in favour of his bankers, the London and County Banking Company, Limited, I have to request that the amount named may be paid to them, at their branch, 12, King Street, Hammersmith, W., on the 1st of each month, the first payment to be made on this date.
Mr. Fisher, who will leave for Ceylon about the middle of October, should also he paid direct, on application, an allowance of £20 for outfit. Certain petty expenses incurred by him in connection with his appointment will also be defrayed from the Fund, up to the amount of £15. In addition, the purchase of photographic apparatus and material, which will remain the property of the Committee, has been authorised up to a total of £100. You will therefore be so good as to meet any bills up to these amounts which may be rendered to you by Mr. Mackinder.
Mr. Fisher will be absent from England and travelling in India, Ceylon, and the Mediterranean, roughly, from October to May or June next. During that time he will receive subsistence allowance at the rate of five shillings a day on sea and one pound a day on land, and in addition, his actual expenses of locomotion-except that his voyage from this country to Colombo will be provided free, and that possibly he may be given free passes on the railways in certain localities.
I have to request that you will arrange for making the necessary advances from the Princess of Wales's Fund, such advances to be fully accounted for by Mr. Fisher on his return.
I have, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS,
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GENTLEMEN,
No. 193.
MR. C. P. LUCAS to CROWN AGENTS.
Downing Street, October 1, 1907.
Princess of Wales's Fund.
On behalf of the Committee on Visual Instruction I have to request that you will be good enough to arrange for making the following payment from the Princess of Wales's Fund, now in your hands.
It has been decided by the Committee that Mr. H. J. Mackinder, as general manager of the lecture scheme for which the fund has been contributed, shall receive, in respect of his services, a retaining fee of £300, to be paid in quarterly instalments, extending over three years, that period to date from the 1st of Septem- ber last. I shall be glad if, in order to make the payments coincide with the ordinary quarters, you will pay him a month's salary for September, and subsequently pay him on the first day of January, April, July, and October, £25 in respect of the preceding quarter, the arrangement to expire on the 31st of August, 1910.
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GENTLEMEN,
No. 194.
I have, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
MR. C. P. LUCAS to CROWN AGENTS.
Downing Street, October 1, 1907. Princess of Wales's Fund.
WITH reference to my letter of to-day's date, I have to inform you that the Committee on Visual Instruction have selected Mr. A. Hugh Fisher, of 10, Hammersmith Terrace, W., to visit, as a photographer-artist, various parts of the Empire, with a view to obtaining the necessary material for lantern slides, and
• No. 193.
MR. C. P. LUCAS to MR. H. J. MACKINDER.
MY DEAR MACKINDER,
Downing Street, October 1, 1907. In answer to your letter of yesterday's date,* I agree with the change of programme to the effect that Mr. Fisher shall not visit Canada on the present tour, but spend his time between 25th October and end of next May or beginning of next June in visiting Ceylon, India, Aden, Somaliland, Cyprus, Malta, and Gibraltar. You will see that I am adding Somaliland and Cyprus to the places specified in your letter. I understand that there will be no second visit to any of these places, and that next July the tour will be to Canada, Hong Kong, Borneo, and the Malay Peninsula, and back through Canada.
With the modification made by your letter under reply* I am putting on record, as follows, the results of our conference on the 26th September, when we settled certain details of expenditure in connection with Mr. Fisher's appointment and approaching visit to Ceylon, India, and the Mediterranean. These details have been embodied in letters to the Crown Agents and to Mr. Fisher, copies of which I enclose. You will notice that I have fixed the subsistence allowance at 5s. a day on sea and £1 a day on land.
We agreed that you shall give Mr. Fisher a letter of instructions, a copy of which will be sent here to be enclosed in despatches or letters to the Colonial and Indian authorities. As to Customs facilities for the passing of photographic appa- ratus, I promised to write to the Colonies concerned and to speak to the India Office.
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Before you left we discussed the question of the issue of a press notice of the Composite" edition which is now nearly ready, and it was agreed to defer further consideration until after my return early in November.
I am sending copies of this letter, its enclosures, and of correspondence which has taken place since our Committee Meeting on the 31st July to the other members of the Committee, explaining that, as it would have been very inconvenient to have another meeting during the holiday season you and I have settled these outstanding questions in anticipation of their approval.
Yours, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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