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APPENDIX D.-MISCELLANEOUS.
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TREASURY to OVERSEA PRIZE DISPOSAL COMMITTEE.
Treasury Chambers, 13th January, 1916.
SIR,
I AM directed by the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to transmit, for the information of the Oversea Prize Disposal Committee, copy of a Treasury minute, of 12th instant, appointing Mr. G. L. Barstow, C.B., to be Accounting Officer of the account of the Oversea Prize Disposal Committee.
I am also to enclose copy of a schedule showing the limits within which their lordships are prepared to delegate to the Committee the power of dealing with losses, etc., arising in connexion with the account.
I am, &c.,
JOHN BRADBURY.
Enclosure 1 in No. 1.
TREASURY MINUTE, dated 12TH JANUARY, 1916, RELATING TO THE OVERSEA PRIZE DISPOSAL COMMITTEE.
My lords have before them the account of the Oversea Prize Disposal Committee for the period to 31st March last.
Of the transactions recorded in the account some fall to be covered by the direc
In such cases tions of the several Courts concerned.
the Committee will be discharged from all further responsibility; the decision of the Court is final and exempt from criticism by the Comptroller and Auditor-General or by the Com- mittee of Public Accounts. But in other and numerous cases the transactions of
the Committee (e.g., in connexion with the use of prize ships for trading purposes) will be covered by no such directions. It becomes necessary, therefore, to appoint
an Accounting Officer.
My lords are pleased to nominate Mr. G. L. Barstow, C.B., the Treasury The accounts of the representative on the Committee, to act in this capacity. Committee, after audit by the Comptroller and Auditor-General, will be laid before the House of Commons with the Appropriation Account of the Vote of Credit.
Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
OVERSEA PRIZE DISPOSAL COMMITTEE.-PROCEDURE WITH REGARD TO WRITE-OFF OF LOSSES, DISCREPANCIES, COMPENSATION, ETC.
The Committee, with the concurrence of their Accounting Officer, may, without reference to the Treasury, dispose finally of cases falling within the limits detailed below.
The Committee may, either generally or with regard to particular classes, delegate their power to one of their number or to their Secretary or Acting Secre- tary; and the Accounting Officer may similarly delegate his power to the clerk in charge of accounts.
In this schedule "agents of the Committee" includes managers and masters of ships but not mates, engineers, or crews; "in any one case means, as regards cargo, on any one class of goods in any one cargo; as regards ships, under any one charter party, as regards persons, to or in respect of one individual in respect of one service; stores" includes ships and parts of ships, cargoes and packing cases; the several maximum amounts refer to gross losses in cases of culpable negligence or fraud on the part of agents of the Committee, and to net losses in other cases.
I-Losses on Cargoes taken over from Prize Courts.
1. Losses, including discrepancies between ships' manifests and stores found on board which cannot be presumed to have arisen while the cargo was in the custody of the Committee:-
No limit.
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