IOR/R/15/2/1472

The file contains Government of India circular letters, mainly from the Government of India, Office of the Accountant-General, Central Revenues, New Delhi. The circulars provide instructions and guidance to Accounts Officers and Treasury Officers in all government departments and offices, about standard government accounting and audit procedures, including:

• Regular ‘Authority for Payment’ notifications, providing the names and specimen signatures of Accounts Officers employed in the Office of the Accountant-General, entitled to authorise payments, 1933-1948;
• Recording and classification both of the pay of Government employees, 1933 and of credits for deductions from pay of various Indian Family Provident Fund subscriptions, 1945;
• Scrutiny of claims and payment orders for house rent and other allowances for employees, 1934;
• Arrangements about the pay and leave allowances for both military officers in Government of India civil employment, 1941 and civil officers in Government of India service, 1942 who are called to military duty during the Second World War (1939-1945).

There is also correspondence between the Accountant-General, Central Revenues, New Delhi and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire about the lack of prompt submission of monthly cash accounts by the Bahrain Agency and other British Consular offices in the Persian Gulf, together with a report from the Assistant Political Officer, Bahrain explaining the reasons for delay in 1934-1935.