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                          211.  In this view Lord Qcorgo Hamilton concurred and agreed to sanction
                                                    a moiety of a reduced subsidy of £1,000
                       B.crct E., July 1900, No*. 131-148.
                                                    only for ono year.
                          212.  The Company was not satisfied with this grant and again pressed for
                      the larger subsidy. The following accounts wore produced by them to show
                      tlioir loss
                      Statement of Expenditure on the Korun Extension by the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Naviga­
                                                  tion Company.
                                                                 £   i.  d.   £   s.  <L
                      Amounts written ofT up to 31at Decombor 1699  • ••       0,030 4 0
                      Bslanco of expenditure over oarninga for 1900 as rondorod to Govern­  4,887 14 10
                        ment half yearly.
                            1693    ditto     ditto                6.204 19 3
                            1892   ditto      ditto  • ••          2,981 7 11
                            1893    ditto     ditto  • M           3,935 13 7
                            1894   ditto      ditto  <•)           3,033 8 3
                           1895    ditto      ditto  • ••          3,752 7 3
                           1896    ditto      ditto  • 44          3,432 13 9
                           1897    ditto      ditto  • ••          3,613 2 7
                           1898    ditto      ditto                2,256 2 1
                           1899    ditto  (estimated)  • 44        2,400 0 0
                                                                               36,460 9 6
  ;
                      Balance of expenditure ovor oarninga on the 8. S. " Shushan," the
                       properly of His Imperial MajeBty tho Shah, defrayed by the
                       Company, but not yot re-paid by Her Imperial Mojeaty'a Treaaury
                       1891      Ml                                 946 16 1
                           1893    ditto      ditto                 556 9 10
                           1893    ditto      ditto                 699 9 8
                           1894    ditto      ditto                 190 16 1
                           1895    ditto      ditto                 744 13 8
                           1896 (do including extensive repairs)   1,113 6 8
                           1897    ditto      ditto                 376 8 1
                           1898    ditto      ditto                 78 10 10
                                                                               4.623 8 11
 I                    Expenditure already incurred in constructing a road from  Ahwar to  7,333 0 0
                       Ispahan, 270 miles in length.
                                                                               63,417 2 6
                      Received from Government—
                      By subsidy from Government to 31st Oeoembor 1890  • M  3.000  0 0
                           1891    ditto      ditto         •••    3.00C 0 0
                           1893    ditto      ditto  Ml     • M    2.000  0 0   •9M*«
                           1893    ditto      ditto         • ••  2,000 0 0      IMt
                           1894    ditto      ditto  Ml           2,000 0 0
                           1895    ditto      ditto         Ml    2.000  O 0    • MMI
                           1896    ditto      ditto  •M     Ml     2.000  0 0
                           1897    ditto      ditto  • ••   Ml     2,000 0 0    •PMI
                           1898    ditto      ditto         Ml    2,000 0 0     #•••••
                           1899    ditto      ditto  • 44   44*    2,000 0 0    ••••••
                                                                               22,000 0 0
                           of ixpenditure over revenue from all sources ...  • •4  444444  81,447 2 *
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