'File 19/169 IV Bahrain reforms' [‎38r] (75/124)

THE AGENCY An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
BAHRAIN
general conditions of health and hygiene in Bahrain and the
money for this campaign, and for a project such as the new
water supply system, should not be provided from current
income nor even from the General Reserve Fund, but from
funds built up for such special purposes. The balance in
any year where the actual expenditure on Public Health or
public rr orks is less than the sum budgeted for might be
credited to these separate heads. Thus a true account of
expenditure on public services would be maintained and general
allocation to the Reserve, the use of which is - and should
be - closely watched, avoided. The Financial Adviser has
promised to adopt the proposals recommended in paragraphs
5 and 6 of Government of India letter No.D. 9680-ME/45 dated
the 22nd August, 1945, in his next budget, and w^ must hope
that this will help to create the separate reservKfunda^
suggested above. I enclose a copy of his letter.
6. The amounts by which the Financial Adviser's 1365
estimates are greater or less than his 1364 estimates are
as follows:-
REVENUE.
Increase in 1365.
Decrease in 1365.
Oil Royalty
t
3,00
Customs
4,00.
Land Revenue
9
Education
1
Passport Receipts
5
Bridge Tolls
70
Oil Gauging Fees
15
Miscellaneous
5
Increase in
1365
Rs.
interest from Reserve 1,30,000
Medical Receipts
Judicial Receipts
Electric Supply
Department
27,000
4,500
71,000
EXPENDITURE.
Decr ease in 1365 .
State Protection
Municipalities
Agriculture
Rs.
20,000
9,000
6.000
Rs.
Allowances to
Ruling Family 1,00,000
State Departments 68,500
Judicial Dept. 15,000
Education 1,95,500
Public Health 30,000
public Works 2,15,000
Oil Gauging 2,000
The Financial Adviser has estimated that there will be a drop
in bridge tolls, and I think this reasonable in view of the
departure of Service personnel from Bahrain. Similarly the
evacuation of the R .A.F. wards in the Bahrain Government Hos
pital will mean a decrease in hospital receipts and the gradual
abandonment of war time regulations may cause a decrease of
receipts in the Law Courts. But his estimate that he will
receive only Rs. 15,500 in judicial fees as against Rs.33,231.15.0
in 1364 seems somev/hat Utopian. His figures for land revenue
also appear unduly moderate, particularly when it is remembered
that both in 1363 and 1364 his actual receipts for this item
were much in excess of his estimates, vide paragraph 3 of this
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