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WING to the transfer, early in April 1928, of the permanent Superintendent, Khan Bahadur Maulvi Zafar Hasan, to the Frontier Circle, Lahore, the Annual Report for the Northern Circle has been contributed by the officiating Superintendent in collaboration with the Assistant Superintendent.

A sum of Rs. 1,44,189 was expended during the year under report, viz, on (a) Special Repairs, Rs. 43,229, (b) Annual Repairs, Rs. 48,998 and (c) Maintenance of Gardens, Rs. 51,962.

The income derived was Rs. 32,990-2-9 in the United Provinces and Rs. 16,914-2 in the Delhi Province.

For the convenience of supervision the Circle has been divided into four divisions, each under a Conservation Assistant. The pumping plant at has been installed and the special repairs to  at Agra have been practically completed, leaving money available next year for special repairs, and works that have been held in abeyance owing to want of funds. In the several carved decayed stones, including four brackets of the, were renewed and in the courtyard of the  2,000 sq. ft. of new paving was laid. The other decayed brackets hidden away in the masonry need to be kept under observation. Three new iron-gated doors were also provided at suitable positions to keep out intruders during closed hours. At the in addition to the ordinary patch repairs to walls and floors several decayed paving stones were replaced and where most necessary the inlaid work received attention. Several broken stone jālis round the river kiosks were renewed and cement tell-tales were fixed at suitable points round the drum of the main dome where cracks were in evidence. At a teak wood door of Mughal design was provided. At some broken stone jālis were renewed and a large portion of the boundary wall rebuilt. At the a missing stone cross over the tomb of John Hessings was replaced. Several of the most ruined graves were repaired and a carved facing stone of the tomb of, which had fallen down and shattered, was replaced by a new one. At at  a portion of the northern causeway was reset, part of the floor and steps restored and many decayed stones replaced. A pair of wire gauze doors with helical springs was provided to the entrance to the crypt to keep out bats and birds. A length of 76' of the western wall being out of plumb and was dismantled and rebuilt.