'File 19/176 VI Bahrain Finances' [‎83r] (165/253)

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 provlcied from current
Income nor even from the General Reserve Fund, but rora
funds built up for such special purposes• The balance In
any year where the actual expenditure on Fuuj ic or
public ' orKs Is less than the sum budgeted for ml^nc be
credited to these separate heads. Thus a true accounc oi'
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 recormend^ in paragraphs
5 and 6 of Government of India letter Ho .D »9680->i ( /4o dated
the 22nd August, 1945, in his next budget, and we ?^U3t hope
that this will help to create the separate reserve funds
suggested above. I enclose a copy of his letuer.
6. The amounts by which the Financial Adviser's i36b
estimates are greater or less than his 1364 estimates are
as followst-
LDLSS.
Increase In 1365.
ks.
Oil Royalty 3,00,000
Customs 4,00,000
Land Revenue 9,000
Education 1,000
Passport Receipts 5,000
Bridge Tolls 70,000
Oil Gauging Fees 13,000
Miscellaneous 5,000
T ^cre t se in 1365 .
Rs.
interest from Reserve 1,30,000
Medical Receipts|
Judicial Receipts
Electric Supply
Department
27,000
4,500
71,000
Increase in 1365 .
Decrease in 1365 .
Rs
State Protection
Municipalities
Agriculture
20,000
9,000
6,000
Rs.
Allowances to
Ruling Family 1,00,000
State Departments 68,500
judicial Dept. 16,000
Fducation 1,95,500
public Health 30,000
public T^orks 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 ttos-
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 Fs.33,231.15.0
in 1364 seems somewhat Utopian. His figures for law 1 revenue
also appear unduly moderate, particularly when it is reinembcred
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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