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to Dr. C. Scicluna for performing the duties of Dr. T. Zammit in addition to his own, and asking when the latter is likely to resume his usual duties.

2. It has been ascertained from the Royal Society that Dr. Zammit will pro- bably be able to return to his ordinary work at the end of this summer.

3. I am to enquire whether your Department is prepared to bear one-third of the expense in connection with the proposed grant of £10 a month to Dr. Scicluna.

I am, &c.,

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the duties of Dr. T. Zammit while the latter is engaged in connection with the Malta Fever Enquiry.

Dr. Zammit is the representative of the Colonial Government on the Commission and he devotes his whole time to the enquiry. But I am to point out that if it is desired that the expense of providing a substitute for Dr. Zammit should be divided between the three Departments concerned in the enquiry, it would seem to follow that the expense incurred by the Admiralty and War Office in providing officers to fill the places of their representatives (who, equally with Dr. Zammit, devote their whole time to the enquiry) should also be shared by the three Departments.

I am to suggest whether, in the circumstances, it would not be better that any departmental expense which may arise in consequence of the members of the Com- mission being detached from their ordinary duties should be borne by the Department concerned.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received June 6, 1905.)

SIR,

War Office, London, S.W., June 6, 1905. I AM commanded by the Army Council to acquaint you, for the information of Mr. Secretary Lyttelton, that Lieutenant-Colonel A. M. Davies, Royal Army Medical Corps, has proceeded to Malta to assist in the investigation into Mediter- ranean Fever in the capacity of epidemiologist, vice Dr. R. W. Johnstone who, it has been decided at the Local Government Board, will not return to Malta this

year.

An imprest of £30 (thirty pounds) has been issued to Lieutenant-Colonel Davies for travelling expenses, &c., the amount of which, when accounted for, will be duly claimed from your Department (as in the previous case of Colonel Bruce dealt with by Colonial Office letter, No. 37362/04, of the 30th November, 1904).*

I am, &c.,

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SIR,

No. 115.

WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received June 7, 1905.)

[See No. 119.]

E. W. D. WARD.

War Office, London, S.W., June 7, 1905. I AM commanded by the Army Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 31st ultimo, No. 15757/05, †and in reply to acquaint you, for the informa- tion of Mr. Secretary Lyttelton, that the Council concur in the charge against this Department of one-third of the expense in connection with the proposed grant of £10 a month to Dr. C. Scicluna for performing the duties (as Government Analytical Chemist) of Dr. T. Zammit, while the latter is wholly employed on the work of the Mediterranean Fever Commission.

I am, &c.,

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No. 116.

ADMIRALTY to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received June 19, 1905.)

E. W. D. WARD.

[Answered by L.F. transmitting copy of No. 118.]

Admiralty, June 17, 1905.

SIR,

My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have had under consideration your letter of 31st ultimo, No. 15757/1905, respecting a proposal made by the Governor of Malta to grant an allowance of £10 a month to Dr. C. Scicluna for performing

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I am, &c.,

W. GRAHAM GREENE,

(FOR SECRETARY).

No. 117.

ACTING GOVERNOR SIR W. F. KELLY to MR. LYTTELTON. (Received June 22, 1905.) [Answered by L.F. transmitting copy of No. 134.]

(No. 109.)

SIR,

The Palace, Valletta, June 16, 1905. WITH reference to correspondence on the subject of the Mediterranean Fever Commission, I have the honour to inform you that Major W. H. Horrocks, R.A.M.C., has submitted the accompanying claim, amounting to £7 18s. 8d. for the refund of the passages of his wife and child from Gibraltar to this Island; his own travelling expenses having been paid in the former Colony from Imperial funds.

2. In support of his claim Major Horrocks points out that no allowance was made to him for the travelling expenses he incurred last year when appointed to be a Member of the Commission, and that, although he has since been granted an allowance of 15s. a day, this he finds insufficient to cover the loss of his appointments in Gibraltar and the travelling expenses to which he is put.

3. I am of opinion that the claim is not an unreasonable one, and, I, therefore, submit it to your favourable consideration; but if there is any doubt in the matter, I would suggest that the question might be referred to the Secretary of the Royal Society, with whom, I am informed, Major Horrocks, previous to his appointment this year, had some understanding.

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I have, &c.,

W. F. KELLY,

Officer Administering the Government.

No. 118.

MR. LYTTELTON to ACTING GOVERNOR SIR W. F. KELLY. [Copy to Admiralty, July 4, 1905. L..]

(No. 89.)

Downing Street, June 27, 1905.

WITH reference to my despatch, No. 83, of the 8th instant, I have the honour to transmit to you copy of a lettert from the Admiralty respecting the proposal to grant an allowance of £10 a month to Dr. C. Scicluna for performing the duties of Dr. T. Zammit while the latter is engaged in connection with the Malta Fever Enquiry.

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