In fact, the overall sum amounted to £1,836.
The Government says the total sums paid to the Chagossians amounts to £14.5 million in today's prices.
The sum amounted to a little over twelve thousand dollars.
Eventually the sum amounted to "nearly $400,000 in real estate gifts, rental payments, campaign contributions" and the government grant, the Times said.
When he was tried, in 1848, it was calculated that the sum of his known thefts amounted to 20,000 pounds.
The sum from the selling of seafood amounted to 391 390 Francs.
The sum collected amounted to 805 pagodas with the Governor and other officers contributing.
That sum amounted to 1.5 percent of the total value of the contracts audited.
The sums involved amounted to at least three and a half million dollars, yet the origin of the money was a mystery.
At that time the sum amounted to about £3,000 a year.