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Page.

Serial No.

Despatch

From or to whom.

Date.

No., &c.

1910.

xxi

177

To War Office

Ceylon

June 2

157

178

To the Governor

Ceylon. 252.

June 10

158

179

The Governor

Ceylon, September 26 585. (Rec. Oct. 15.)

158

May 25

May 3

Asks if there is any further information available as to the exclusion from assessment for contribution of the portion of the liquor farin renta carried to Improvement Fund, and submits further arguments in support of the contention that receipts from Government buildings let for profit should be assessed in the gross.

Presumes that in view of Treasury lecisions school fees and recovered medical charges will be included in the general revenue for the purposes of assessment; demurs to Colonial Office contention that the Army Council are not entitled to object to the removal from the Estimates of a class of revenue which was included at the time the military contribution was fixed, unless they are also pre- pared to agree that no new revenue should be subject to the contribution.

Enquires whether a reply can now be

given to No. 166.

Regrets that Treasury cannot agree to the appointment of the proposed Interdepartmental Committee, and reluctantly agrees not to prese at present for a comprehensive settle- ment of the question asks that £60,000 a year may be paid to the Colony for three years on condition that legislation for carrying out Governor's proposals is repealed;

that reimbursements submita sums paid out by the Colonial Government should be exempt; deinurs to the claim that exemption of education and hospital receipts should have been submitted to the Treasury, and expresses opinion that the Colonial Government is entitled to fuller details of the military expenditure.

11

174

To Treasury

Straits

May 26

Settler

ments.

180

War Office...

Ceylon

November 3

181

Ditto

Straits Settle- ments.

November 3

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States that Lord Crewe cannot give a reply to No. 166 without consulting the Governor, to whom copies of the correspondence have been sent.

Transmite for his observations copies of Nos. 139, 166, 167, 173 and 177; sug. gests that the Colony should agree to pay the whole cost of the troope subject to the limitation to 9 per cent, of the Colony's revenue and to the conditions indicated.

Submits further objections, in reply to No. 178, to War Office proposals and trusts that the arrangement of 1896 may not be disturbed.

Enquires whether a reply can now be

sent to No. 166:

Requests that the amount due from the Colony as military contribution upon the gross receipts from Government buildings let for profit, which were not included in the assessable revenue for 1907 and 1908 may be paid without waiting for the settlement of other outstanding adjustments.

States, in reply to No. 181, that it is expected that the Treasury will reply to No. 174 at an early date and that it will be more convenient to explain to the Colonial Government at one and the same time the decisions arrived at by His Majesty's Government on the various questions at issue.

November 23 Transmita copy of No. 179; observes that whilst Mr. Harcourt would be prepared to accept the claim of the Army Council for a revision of the Ceylon contribution, the Legislative Council of the Colony was only in- duced to accept the present arrange- ment aa a final settlement of the question and any change would be strongly opposed in the Council; but Mr. Harcourt will further approach the Governor, if the Army Council are willing that the matter should be decided by the votes of the Unofficial Members.

165

165

166

171

171

171

172

159

182

To War Office

Straits Settle- menta.

November 15

of

183

Ditto

Ceylon

175

The Governor

Straite Settle-

ments,

(Rec. May 28.)

Submits Ordinanco V of 1910 "An Ordinance to constitute a Hospital Board in the Colony."

162

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176

To War Office

Straits

June 7

Settle-

1

ments.

Explains, in reply to No. 171, that no the communication was made to Governor with regard to liquor farm rents, as it was considered that the matter should await consideration by the proposed Interdepartmental Com- mittee; states that, whilst adhering to his previous views, Mr. Harcourt will not refuse to request the Gov- ernor to include in the assessable revenue the gross receipts from Gov- ernment buildings let for profit, but he is not prepared to instruct the Governor to include school fees and recovered hospital charges.

164

184

Treasury

Straits

Settle-

ments.

1911.

March 11

Forwards letter from War Office as to certain amounts held to be incorrectly deducted from the military contribu tion of the Straits; fails to understand why interdepartmental arrangement ! has been departed from in some instances and bolds that these deduc. tions constitute a debt by the Colony to the Imperial Government as to which a settlement must be arrived at before consideration can be given to the question of assistance from Hin Majesty's Government on account of losses of revenue due to opium policy.

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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XXII

1911.