I. ESTIMATE of the Amount required in the Year ending 31 March 1925 to pay Claims in respect of Ships or Cargoes condemned as Naval Prize or detained and certain Salaries for Advisory duties.

Fifty Thousand Pounds.

II. SUBHEADS under which this Vote will be accounted for by the TREASURY.

Officers of the late Prize Claims Committee retained for
Advisory duties in connection with outstanding claims :
Secretary

(inclusive)

Provision for payment of claims by British, Allied and
Neutral Third Parties against ships or cargoes
condemned as Naval Prize or detained

C.-MISCELLANEOUS CLAIMS:

..

Other miscellaneous claims against the Exchequer in
respect of Naval Prize

..

NOTE.-Payments in respect of the claims by Third Parties in no case exceed the earnings of ships or the net proceeds of cargoes. The relative receipts are payable in the case of Droits of Admiralty to the Exchequer and in the case of Droits of the Crown to the Naval Prize Fund.

1. ESTIMATE of the Amount required in the Year ending 31 March 1925 for GRANTS in respect of COMPENSATION for SUFFERING and DAMAGE by ENEMY ACTION.

Five Hundred Thousand Pounds.

II. HEAD under which this Vote will be accounted for by the TREASURY.

GRANTS FOR COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGE BY ENEMY
ACTION (Re-Vote).

500,000 2,600,000

A. GRANTS FOR COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGE BY
ENEMY ACTION (Re-vote) :—

Grants recommended by the Royal Commission on Com-
pensation for Suffering and Damage by Enemy Action.

On 15 August 1921 a Royal Commission was appointed
(in fulfilment of a statement made in the House of
Commons on 4 May 1920) to consider cases in which there
is a moral claim by British Nationals (other than those
belonging to parts of the Empire to which a separate share
of Reparation receipts has been allotted) for compensation
for sufferings or damage arising out of the action of the
enemy during the War within Annex I. to Part VIII. of the
Treaty of Versailles; and to make recommendations as to
the distribution of a sum of not more than 5,000,000., out
of the first receipts on account of reparation allocated to
the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, in ex gratiâ grants
in such cases. It is anticipated that approximately
4,500,000 will have been expended by 31 March 1924
out of votes for previous years, and the present provision
is a re-vote of the balance of 5,000,0007.

NOTE. The expenses of the Commission, are borne on the Vote for Royal Commissions, &c. (Class VI.)

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INDEX

TO THE

ESTIMATES FOR CIVIL SERVICES, 1924-25.

CLASSES I.-VII. AND UNCLASSIFIED.

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letters U.S. At the foot of Part II. of each Estimate a reference is given to
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