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87 Part IV—Chap. XXIV.
11. The result will be nearly tho same if wc assume as a standard of comparison the
establishments which we understand the Hon’ble Court to have authorized, viz., tho
Rcsidoncy at Muscat with tho allowances which you havo stated and that of Bush ire on its
originol fooling—
Rs.
Salary of tho Resident at Muscat 1,600
Salary of his Assistant . • 400
Contingencies ...» 170
Allowances of tho Resident at Bushiro COO
Total . 2,670
Scalo of allowances solioitod by Mr. Bruoo . . 1,800
Saving 870

Rs.
Proposed . 8,450 Whereas the allowances which you have
Autuorizod . . 2,070 proposed exceed tho expense authorised by the
Hon'ble Court in tho sum of 780 rupees per
Excess 780
mensem.*

Dated Bombay Castle, tho 21st Octobor 1812.
From—Sib Evan Nbplkn, Governor in Council,
To—The Right Hon’ble Gilbebt Lobd Minto, Governor-Gonoral in Council at Fort William.
1. We have tho honor to acknowledge tho receipt of the despatch from Your Lordship in
Council of the 7th August communicating your sentiments on tho recent arrangement by tho
late Government of an establishment for the Residency of Abushire.
2. On referring to tho proceedings which had taken place connected with those arrange­
ments, Mr. Brown delivered in a minuto explaining the grounds on which the conduct of the
lato Government had been regulated in respect to the scale of establishment on which the
Abushire Residency was proposed to be placed, and in expressing our regret at the misconception
entertained of the intentions of Your Lordship in Council, we have deemed it necessary to
transmit a copy of Mr. Brown's minute, and to intimate to Your Lordship, that disposed as
we are, to assume tho entire responsibility of regulating the internal arrangement of that or
of any other Residency that may bo immediately dependent on this Government with the
viow of relieving Your Lordship from tho consideration of details which are more immediately
connected with this Presidency, we feel at tho same time the indispensable necessity of
observing the strictest economy in the publio expenditure on all occasions, but particularly
during the present exigency.
8. Under the influence of this conviction, combined with a consideration of the expediency
of affording to the British Resident at Abushire the means of maintaining the respectability of
his representative character, as so essential to the promotion of the credit and interests of
tho Hon'ble Company in the dominions of the King of Persia, we conceive the sura of eighteen
hundred rupees a month was the lowest that cuuld be allotted for salary and establishment and
evory other charge with the exception of presents, which will be confined within the narrowest
scale, and not to exceed the amount to which the Resident has hitherto been limited ; under
this arrangement it will appear that the actual receipt of the Resident after providing for the
expenses of the establishment, necessary to the duo execution of tho duties of this station
would not exceed the sum of (1,600) one thousand six hundred and ninety rupees per month.
4. In reference to the 6th and 17th paragraphs of Your Lordship's despatch we have the
honour to inform you that Mr. Flower of the
As will appear by the following statement— Civil Service on this establishment having been
appointed to the situation on the 10th of July and
Bushibi. Rs.
T. . subsequently consenting to proceed on tho reduced
Broker' \ !*.!*.! 80 ^^wance of Rs. (1,800) one thousand and eight
Salary and allowance to the Resident .* 1,690 hundred per mensem, we are concerned that the
Including Establishment, peonn, ooca- circumstance of the case combined with the
sional expenses of this assistant on forcible reasons assigned by our colleague Mr.
To™Mo® mu “be added tho ,alary of Brown, preclude u. from nominating Lieutenant
tho Assistant.................................. 600 Bruce to the situation of the British Resident
at Abushire, the orders of the Hon'ble Court and
2.300 the claims of the Civil Service are a bar to whatever
expectations Mr. Bruce may have formed of being
advanoed beyond the station of an assistant at Bushire, and it is only out of consideration to
the length of his services in that capacity that we are restrained from abolishing the situation
of assistant at that Residency.

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