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(iii) Informal contact and the handling of detailed arrangements over scholarships between the Governments of the Borneo States and the authorities of the donor countries concerned should be maintained, but the formal and final conclusion of such awards and scholarships should be effected through the Federal Ministry of External Affairs. (iv) The Borneo States should be given generous treatment in the allocation of places for training in establishments within the Federation of Malaysia. (v) In the Borneo States local non-Government scholarships should remain a State responsibility (vi) In Sarawak—
 * (a) Boarding subsidies and indigent pupils fund allowances should be a Federal liability. The present Sarawak policy on local scholarships should continue in force;
 * (b) The Supreme Council Centenary Scholarships should remain a State responsibility; and

(c) As regards overseas scholarships and training courses, the Federal Government should pay for scholars returning to Federal posts and the State Government should pay for scholars returning to Stale service. As an ad hoc basis the Sarawak Government should provide for $350,000 in its recurrent budget to meet the cost of State scholarships

3. Protection of wild mammals and wild birds; National Parks.

National Parks should not be established in the Borneo States without the concurrence of the State Government concerned.

4. Animal husbandry, etc.

The departments concerned should remain State departments.

5. Town and Country planning, except in the federal capital.

Subject to an assurance that Federal powers in this respect should only be used to enable the Federal Government to carry out its constitutional and administrative functions.

6. Vagrancy and itinerant hawkers.

7. Public health, sanitation, etc.

Administrative functions in respect of these subjects should, where appropriate continue to be exercised by local authorities in the Borneo States.

8. Drainage and Irrigation.

The departments concerned should remain State departments.

9. Rehabilitation of mining land, etc.