Manual of military cooking / prepared at the Army School of Cookery.

Date:
1910
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Manual of military cooking / prepared at the Army School of Cookery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    brought out will be paid into the Civil Treasury by means of a receivable order obtained from the Divisional Disbursing Officer, the gold coin being exchanged at Is. Ad. the rupee to arrive at the equivalent Indian currency, and the remainder, if any, i.e., Bank of England notes, silver or copper, at the market rate of exchange, supported by the certificate received from the Treasury. The amounts disallowed on audit of the voyage accounts are recoverable at the rate of Is. 4d. the rupee. Voyagre from India. 7. Pay and mess books for the period of the voyage from India will be prepared in duplicate by company, &c., commanders on A.F. N 1504. The necessary supply of these forms, together with copies of the pay warrant, the financial instructions, and the allowance regulations, will be found on board the vessel in a packet addressed to the officer commanding the troops. One pay and mess book for each company will be rendered to the reo-imental paymaster at the record office station of the unit. The pay and mess books will be prepared for the voyage period commencing from the date of embarkation in India and ending on the day preceding arrival in port of the vessel in which the voyage to the United Kingdom is made, or, in the case of a unit pro- ceeding to a colony or Egypt, on the day preceding disembarkation. In the case of details of the unit disembarking at Malta or othei' station e7i route, separate pay and mess books should be maintained and submitted to the regimental paymaster of the station concerned. 8. A separate pay list for the voyage will, as far as possible, be prepared in India by the divisional disbursing oflicer concerned, for each company and for details disembarking at a station en route, the columns marked ''period and amount being left blank. The pay lists will be despatched as soon as possible after the unit embarks, so as to reach the paymasters at the destinations at the same time as the unit or details. 9. On receipt of the pay and mess books and certified copies ot ordera for the period of the voyage, the paymaster will complete the pay lists, and the balance due to the unit or details will be paid by him, or on his behalf, by the cashier of the command, and charged to Secretary of State for India—Miscellaneous Services. 10. The pay of units leaving India in the oidinary course of Indian relief becomes an Imperial charge from the day of arrival of the ship in port at home, or of disembarkation at a station abroad. j 11. Voyage pay lists are to contain only those charges and credits which relate strictly to the voyage, and care should be taken only to charge such allowances as are admissible for a voyage period and to ensure that no charges or credits in respect of any Indian accounts are included in voyage pay lists.