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Minutes of the previous meeting
Minutes of the previous meeting were agreed and signed
1. Consideration of the Vice-Chairman’s report of No.31 of Expenditure authorised under resolution 4 (1) of the 32nd and 43rd meeting of the Commission, with the resolution that this be accepted
2. Consideration of a report by the Finance Department requesting authority to expend £5,490 to defray estimates for the Commission in Gallipoli, with the resolution that this be approved for the period 1st April 1922 to 30th September 1922
3. Consideration of a report by the Finance Department requesting authority to expend £2,000 on the horticultural maintenance of graves in cemeteries and churchyards situated in the United Kingdom and Ireland, with the resolution that this be approved for the period ending 31st March 1923
4. Consideration of a report by the Finance Department requesting authority to expend £1000 to defray incidental expenses of the Commission in London, with the resolution that this be approved for the period ending 31st March 1923
5. Consideration of a report by the Finance Department requesting authority to expended £4,500 to defray travelling expenses and allowances payable by the Commission in London, with the resolution that this be approved for the period ending 31st March 1923
6. Consideration of a report by the Controller and Financial Adviser requesting authority to expend francs 14,345 to defray expenses related to the exhumation and concentration of 784 British, Indian and other graves and cremated bodies buried in cemeteries in Marseilles, with the resolution that this be approved
7. Consideration of reports and tabulated statements by the Chief Accountant, France re stolen horticultural stores and tools from cemeteries in France and Flanders, with the resolution that a sum of £24.6s.1d be written off for the period ending 31st January 1922
8. Consideration of reports and tabulated statements by the Director of Works and the Land and Legal Adviser re the consideration of tenders for constructional work to be carried out at Newport Cemetery, Lincoln, with the resolution that the tender of Messrs J Boulton be accepted at a sum of £218.12s.6d, that £25 be expended on contingencies arising from the contract, that £20 be expended on the supply of a bronze sword to be affixed to the War Cross in the cemetery and that a sum of £25 be expended on the supply and planting of a box hedge
Additional letter from the Land and Legal Adviser re the Corporation of Lincoln promising a Deed of Grant for the exclusive rights of burial in all War Graves in Newport Cemetery
9. Consideration of a report by the Finance Department requesting authority to return wooden crosses from cemeteries in France and Belgium to the next-of-kin, with the resolution that a sum of £500 be expended for this purpose
10. Consideration of a report by the Finance Department covering a letter from the War Office requesting payment for incidental expenses on 6 Fiat lorries purchased by the Commission in 1919, with the resolution that a sum of £616.16.11 be expended to defray these costs
11. Consideration of a report by the Principle Assistant Secretary requesting additional appointments to the staff of the Commission in France and Belgium, with the resolution that this be accepted
12. Consideration of reports by the Director of Works and a letter from Messrs C Shaw Lovell and Sons Ltd re tenders for the transportation of headstones from Dover to Calais, with the resolution that the tender by Messrs C Shawl Lovell be accepted at a sum of £4/6d per headstone for a period of two years
13. Consideration of a report by the Director of Works re the consideration of tenders and tender prices for constructional work in Welford Road Cemetery, Leicester, with the resolution that the tender by Messrs Webster and Causon of Aylesbury, Bucks be accepted for a sum of £588, that £60 be expended on contingencies and that £20 be expended on the supply of a bronze sword to be affixed to the bronze sword in this cemetery
14. Consideration of a report by the Director of Works re the consideration of tenders for constructional work in Richmond (Surrey) Cemetery, with the resolution that the tender by Messrs Burlington and Gate for the supply of 75 headstone be accepted at a sum of £241 be accepted, that £25 be expended on contingencies, that £9.7.6 be expended to defray the cost of fees payable to Richmond Borough Council and that £20 be expended on the engraving of personal inscriptions
Present:
Major-General Sir Fabian Ware, KBE, CB, CMG (Chairman)
F M Morris, Esqre (Representing the Treasury)
Also Present:
Major C K Phillips, OBE (Land and Legal Adviser) |