Arrears to the amount of £81,000 were still owing in the Mudiriyehs of Kartoum and Sennaar for pay, food, and transport. He was anxious that in future all salaries should be paid punctually both to the officials and to the military, and that the Government should be able to meet its other expenses at the proper time. He requested that large sums of money might be forwarded to him, and estimated at £46,000 his monthly expenditure for the troops at Kartoum, Sennaar, the military posts on the White and Blue Niles, Fashoda, the Equatorial Provinces, and Bahr-Gazelle, but exclusive of those at Dongola, Berber, and in the Red Sea Provinces.
Amount of money to be forwarded from Cairo to meet the expenses entailed by the rebellion.
In reply to the above Cherif Pasha telegraphed on the 11th June, that the undermentioned amounts would be placed at the disposal of the Governor-General during the current year, viz.:—
| £ | |
| Seven months’ pay for the army actuallyengaged in the war | 13,000 |
| Rations for seven months | 32,000 |
| Forage (Fourrage) | 37,500 |
| Purchase of camels | 25,000 |
| Arrears | 80,000 |
| ———— | |
| 187,500 | |
| But the amount actually in theTreasury at Kartoum was to bededucted from this | 40,000 |
| ———— | |
| £147,500 | |
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leaving £147,000 to be sent from Cairo.
Reinforcements to the number of 3000 men were to be sent to the Soudan, but all the expenses connected with them, which were estimated at £40,000, would be defrayed by the Egyptian Government.
For the expenses of the Civil Administration and the pay of soldiers not actually engaged in the war, the Governor-General was ordered to do the best he could with the revenues of the Soudan, as the Egyptian Government would not be able to furnish him with more than the sums already specified.
13th May.
1883.
2nd August.