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Fees from private sources, &c., permission for officer
to receive
Existing powers of sanction, increase proposed for
the various authorities concerned (Jacoi) 44486
(Meston) 44869 (Risley) 45867.
Finance Department, Government of India
Constitution, App. Id., pp. 194-6.
Finance Member, position and powers of (Meston)
44808.
Secretary—Position as head of office (Meston)
44808.
Functions, App. Id., pp. 194-6.
Actuarial questions now going to Home Depart-
ment—Opinion in favour of transfer to
Finance Department (Risley) 45359-61.
Difficulty in drawing the line between purely
financial and purely administrative relations,
question of (Risley) 45513-20.
Administrative matters—Extent to which De-
partment took cognizance of (Meston) 44809-12.
Delay, question of—Time taken in passage
through Finance Department of inter-depart-
mental references (Meston) 44855-8, 44882.
Difference of opinion in regard to whether a
question should be referred to Finance Depart-
ment—Procedure in case of, question as to
arbiter (Meston) 44816-8.
Rule requiring previous reference in cases involv-
ing abandonment of revenue, etc., App. Id.,
p. 194.
Exceptions to rule, App. Id., pp. 194-5.
Method of correspondence, App. Id., p. 195.
Proposals put forward by Provincial Governments,
attitude in regard to (Jacob) 44624.
Renorts, returns, &c., demand for—-Authorities
responsible, question of increase, liability, &c.
Alienation of State lands and assignments of land
revenue, annual provincial returns required
(Carlyle) 44070-81.
Other departments, demands on, for information,
&c., question as to increase (Meston) 44814-5.
Statement of returns called for from Provincial
Governments and returns furnished to Secre-
tary of State (Meston) 44813 ; App. lid., p. 211.
-Secretariat
Military Finance branch—Constitution, duties,
etc., App. Id., p. 195.
Joint Secretary, position and functions, App.Id.,
pp. 195-6.
Ordinary branch — Constitution, duties, etc.,
App. Id., pp. 194-5.
Powers of Secretaries
Kind of matters disposed of by officer in charge
of a section, abstract submitted to honourable
member (Meston) 44835-40.
Matters which had become a formality, pro-
cedure in regard to (Meston) 45192-6.
Standing of officers—Length of service of Deputy,
Assistant and Under Secretaries (Meston)
44828-30.
Tenure of appointment (Meston) 44878-81.
Three years’ rule—Date of introduction, appli-
cation, &c. (Meston) 44831-4.
Financial relations between Government of India and
Provincial Governments—Existing position and
opinions with regard to delegation of powers
Attitude of Government of India, question of
reasonableness (Meston) 45286-7.
Budget, Provincial Budgets—Control exercised by
Government of India, &c.
Accuracy of budget estimates, permissible margin
of error (Meston) 44948-53.
Administrative sanction of schemes
Authority giving sanction (Meston) 44847-8.
Budget sanction not of itself an authorization
to spend money, administrative sanction also
necessary (Meston) 44841.
Insertion in budgets of schemes not yet ad-
ministratively sanctioned (Meston) 44842-50,
44886-8, 45048-53.
Notification of sanction, method of (Meston)
44849.
Alterations and reductions by Government of
India
Accuracy of estimates, alterations in direction
of—Tendency of Provincial Governments
to over-estimate expenditure and under-
estimate revenue (Meston) 44863 ; Table
App. VII., pp. 226-33.
Financial relations, &c.—cont.
Budget, &c.—cont.
Alterations and reductions, &c.—cont.
Accuracy of estimates, &c.—cont.
Bombay, figures for, comparative accuracy of
Bombay Government and Government of
India (Meston) 45292-304; App. VII.,
p. 233.
Tables illustrating tendency, App. VII.,
pp. 226-33.
Additional grants
Number of applications for (Meston) 44864,
List 1903-8 ; App. VIII., p. 234, 45313.
Sanction required—Reasons for requiring
sanction (Meston) 44970-9.
Baluchistan, complaint from, that reductions
were not submitted to Agent to the
Governor-General (Meston) 44896-8.
Eastern Bengal and Assam—No objection to
direct submission of objections to Budget
corrections (Meston) 45329a.
Expenditure exceeding reduced grant, case of,
methods by which increased expenditure could
be arranged for (Meston) 44863.
Lump deduction to be made as probable savings
in future (Meston) 44863.
Departmental officers, simplification of Pro-
vincial Governments’ relations with (Mes-
ton) 45278-81.
Expenditure up to unreduced estimate,
power of, and method of providing money
(Meston) 45054-62, 45275-85, 45305-7.
Terms of instruction sent by Government of
India in finally returning budget (Meston)
45325.
Object of alterations—Alterations not made for
reasons of policy (Meston) 44980-1.
Underspending of grants by Provincial Govern-
ments
Only circumstance in which reductions could
affect spending powers of Provincial
Government (Meston) 44863.
Reductions tending to promote, question of
(Meston) 44969.
Balances, power to expend from
Arrangements could be made up to 5 lakhs, but
the power of reappropriation ought to make
any such arrangement unnecessary (Meston)
44899-902.
Existing powers (Meston) 45177-8.
Opinion in favour of within moderate limits
(Meston) 45176, 45332.
Powers to expend up to defined amount without
sanction of Government of India, Madras
suggestion—Opinion against and disadvan-
tages of (Meston) 44865.
Date of submission of budgets—Madras Govern-
ment suggestion to dispense with first edition
Accuracy of estimating, question as to increased
accuracy if submission were delayed for a
month (Meston) 45134-9.
Alterations made between 20th Jan. and 8th
March—Authority responsible for alterations
(Meston) 44954-5.
Information as to actuals, &c. at disposal of
Government of India prior to 20th Jan.
(Meston) 45108-15.
Nature and value of consideration given to
reviews of Provincial Governments between
20th Jan. and end of financial year (Meston)
44956-69.
Nature of criticism of Provincial Budgets by
Government of India—Opinion that criticism
might be somewhat less detailed (Meston)
45131-3.
Opinion against—Relief afforded to Provincial
Governments would be small and great incon-
venience would result in Imperial Secretariat
with probable delay of financial statement
(Meston) 44865, 44903-5, 45140-5, 45315.
Opportunities for Provincial Governments to
see corrections and suggest alterations (Mes-
ton) 44963, 44967-8, 44982-5.
Spending departments, estimates of, date of
submission to Government of India (Mes-
ton) 44865, 45116-7.
Earlier submission, question of—Fluctuation
in expenditure by departments, &c. (Meston)
45118-30, 45146-7.
269
Fees from private sources, &c., permission for officer
to receive
Existing powers of sanction, increase proposed for
the various authorities concerned (Jacoi) 44486
(Meston) 44869 (Risley) 45867.
Finance Department, Government of India
Constitution, App. Id., pp. 194-6.
Finance Member, position and powers of (Meston)
44808.
Secretary—Position as head of office (Meston)
44808.
Functions, App. Id., pp. 194-6.
Actuarial questions now going to Home Depart-
ment—Opinion in favour of transfer to
Finance Department (Risley) 45359-61.
Difficulty in drawing the line between purely
financial and purely administrative relations,
question of (Risley) 45513-20.
Administrative matters—Extent to which De-
partment took cognizance of (Meston) 44809-12.
Delay, question of—Time taken in passage
through Finance Department of inter-depart-
mental references (Meston) 44855-8, 44882.
Difference of opinion in regard to whether a
question should be referred to Finance Depart-
ment—Procedure in case of, question as to
arbiter (Meston) 44816-8.
Rule requiring previous reference in cases involv-
ing abandonment of revenue, etc., App. Id.,
p. 194.
Exceptions to rule, App. Id., pp. 194-5.
Method of correspondence, App. Id., p. 195.
Proposals put forward by Provincial Governments,
attitude in regard to (Jacob) 44624.
Renorts, returns, &c., demand for—-Authorities
responsible, question of increase, liability, &c.
Alienation of State lands and assignments of land
revenue, annual provincial returns required
(Carlyle) 44070-81.
Other departments, demands on, for information,
&c., question as to increase (Meston) 44814-5.
Statement of returns called for from Provincial
Governments and returns furnished to Secre-
tary of State (Meston) 44813 ; App. lid., p. 211.
-Secretariat
Military Finance branch—Constitution, duties,
etc., App. Id., p. 195.
Joint Secretary, position and functions, App.Id.,
pp. 195-6.
Ordinary branch — Constitution, duties, etc.,
App. Id., pp. 194-5.
Powers of Secretaries
Kind of matters disposed of by officer in charge
of a section, abstract submitted to honourable
member (Meston) 44835-40.
Matters which had become a formality, pro-
cedure in regard to (Meston) 45192-6.
Standing of officers—Length of service of Deputy,
Assistant and Under Secretaries (Meston)
44828-30.
Tenure of appointment (Meston) 44878-81.
Three years’ rule—Date of introduction, appli-
cation, &c. (Meston) 44831-4.
Financial relations between Government of India and
Provincial Governments—Existing position and
opinions with regard to delegation of powers
Attitude of Government of India, question of
reasonableness (Meston) 45286-7.
Budget, Provincial Budgets—Control exercised by
Government of India, &c.
Accuracy of budget estimates, permissible margin
of error (Meston) 44948-53.
Administrative sanction of schemes
Authority giving sanction (Meston) 44847-8.
Budget sanction not of itself an authorization
to spend money, administrative sanction also
necessary (Meston) 44841.
Insertion in budgets of schemes not yet ad-
ministratively sanctioned (Meston) 44842-50,
44886-8, 45048-53.
Notification of sanction, method of (Meston)
44849.
Alterations and reductions by Government of
India
Accuracy of estimates, alterations in direction
of—Tendency of Provincial Governments
to over-estimate expenditure and under-
estimate revenue (Meston) 44863 ; Table
App. VII., pp. 226-33.
Financial relations, &c.—cont.
Budget, &c.—cont.
Alterations and reductions, &c.—cont.
Accuracy of estimates, &c.—cont.
Bombay, figures for, comparative accuracy of
Bombay Government and Government of
India (Meston) 45292-304; App. VII.,
p. 233.
Tables illustrating tendency, App. VII.,
pp. 226-33.
Additional grants
Number of applications for (Meston) 44864,
List 1903-8 ; App. VIII., p. 234, 45313.
Sanction required—Reasons for requiring
sanction (Meston) 44970-9.
Baluchistan, complaint from, that reductions
were not submitted to Agent to the
Governor-General (Meston) 44896-8.
Eastern Bengal and Assam—No objection to
direct submission of objections to Budget
corrections (Meston) 45329a.
Expenditure exceeding reduced grant, case of,
methods by which increased expenditure could
be arranged for (Meston) 44863.
Lump deduction to be made as probable savings
in future (Meston) 44863.
Departmental officers, simplification of Pro-
vincial Governments’ relations with (Mes-
ton) 45278-81.
Expenditure up to unreduced estimate,
power of, and method of providing money
(Meston) 45054-62, 45275-85, 45305-7.
Terms of instruction sent by Government of
India in finally returning budget (Meston)
45325.
Object of alterations—Alterations not made for
reasons of policy (Meston) 44980-1.
Underspending of grants by Provincial Govern-
ments
Only circumstance in which reductions could
affect spending powers of Provincial
Government (Meston) 44863.
Reductions tending to promote, question of
(Meston) 44969.
Balances, power to expend from
Arrangements could be made up to 5 lakhs, but
the power of reappropriation ought to make
any such arrangement unnecessary (Meston)
44899-902.
Existing powers (Meston) 45177-8.
Opinion in favour of within moderate limits
(Meston) 45176, 45332.
Powers to expend up to defined amount without
sanction of Government of India, Madras
suggestion—Opinion against and disadvan-
tages of (Meston) 44865.
Date of submission of budgets—Madras Govern-
ment suggestion to dispense with first edition
Accuracy of estimating, question as to increased
accuracy if submission were delayed for a
month (Meston) 45134-9.
Alterations made between 20th Jan. and 8th
March—Authority responsible for alterations
(Meston) 44954-5.
Information as to actuals, &c. at disposal of
Government of India prior to 20th Jan.
(Meston) 45108-15.
Nature and value of consideration given to
reviews of Provincial Governments between
20th Jan. and end of financial year (Meston)
44956-69.
Nature of criticism of Provincial Budgets by
Government of India—Opinion that criticism
might be somewhat less detailed (Meston)
45131-3.
Opinion against—Relief afforded to Provincial
Governments would be small and great incon-
venience would result in Imperial Secretariat
with probable delay of financial statement
(Meston) 44865, 44903-5, 45140-5, 45315.
Opportunities for Provincial Governments to
see corrections and suggest alterations (Mes-
ton) 44963, 44967-8, 44982-5.
Spending departments, estimates of, date of
submission to Government of India (Mes-
ton) 44865, 45116-7.
Earlier submission, question of—Fluctuation
in expenditure by departments, &c. (Meston)
45118-30, 45146-7.