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 pat " >> > 3) > 33 " J? 40 aa 2 3 10 OD SUL The following tables exbibit receipts and expenditure from local funds - Receipts. One per cent. road cess Rs. 11,979 school cess 11,974 One-fourth per cent district dâs 3,998 Three local and margin 31,695 Education fund 1,102 Dispensary » 685 Pound 2,103 Nazůl 1,071 Provincial funds 35,919 Total, Rs. 99,626 Charges. Education Rs. 17,992 Hospita) and dispensaries 1,814 District dik 3,178 Pound Nazál 872 Public Works Communications Rs. 46,062 Civil Buildings, &c. 19,804 Establishmento, &c. 75,637 Total, Rs. 99,466 . 32 35 se 23 460 >> 000 9,771 >> Educational.--Educational like postal interests have received due atten- tion in the revision of assessments, and provision has been made for the levy of a school cess of } per cent. on the Government demand. The district contains in all 116 schools. Of these the principal is the high school at the civil station. Instruction is afforded in it in four languages, viz., English, Urdu, Hindi, and Persian, together with a varicty of other subjects. The standard it teaches up to is that of the entrance examination of the Calcutta University; next in importance comes the town school of Jagdispur. Then come the village schools. In these of course a lower standard is aimed at, and the curriculum embraces fewer subjects than in the high school, but their usefulness and suitability to the requirements of the village population is manifested by the fact that they attract more than four thousand students. This class of schools at the outset entails a good deal of trouble and expense for building, training teachers, &c., so that they must be established gradually; and as those now in existence come into full working order, some augmentation of their number will take place. The total number of persons who attend the Government schools is 4,607. Postal.-Postal arrangements on a somewhat limited scale werc esta- blished soon after the re-occupation of the province; they were, however, almost entirely restricted to the conveyance of the mails to and from out- lying thánas and tabsils, and the extension of regular postal communica- tions throughout the interior of the district was deferred till the present settlement, being one of certain specific objects for which provision was then directed to be made. Settlement officers were charged with making