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 ADDITIONS AND COERECTIONS Lxxxvii

Expenditure.

Education 1,505,300 —

Medical 638,600 —

Opium 530,100 —

Civil Works 321,500 —

Police 286,200 —

Protective Irrigation Works 173,800 —

Railways 162,100 —

Post Office and Telegraph 130,700 —

Other heads 638,200 —

Provincial Adjustments — 6,658,500

Interest — 191,400

Famine Relief ........ — 142.100

Revenue. — The decrease under opium is due to the loss of revenue from certified opium and to a reduction in the number of uncertified cliests to be sold. The fall under Provincial Kates is due to the decision to transfer to District Boards the net proceeds of the land cess in certain Provinces, which are at present appropriated by the Provincial Governments. These will be compensated from the revenues of the Government of India.

ExpendituTP. — There are special recurring grants of 565,700L for education and sanitation, and 529,900/. for compensation in respeot of the transfer of the land cess. The great decrease under Provincial Adjustments is due to the following cause: large special grants amounting to 4,617,800/. were made to the Provincial Governments in 1912-13 for education (2,617,800/.), sanitation (1,000,000/.), and other purposes, these grants being chaiged against the revenue of the year, but added to the Provincial balances with a view to future outlay. It is anticipated that i>art of these and previous similar grants will be spent in 1913-14, the money being provided from the Provincial balances, with the re>sultthat the charges against the revenue of the year will be correspondingly reduced.

Capital Expenditure, 1913-14.

Railways 12,000,000

Irrigation Works 1,466,700

Discharge of Debt 1,868,500

Deposits, Loans, and Remittances 2,672,000

Initial Outlay on New Capital, Delhi 1,333,-300

Total 19,340,500

Method of Providing for Capital Expenditure.

£

Revenue Surplus. 1,311,200

Net Savings Banks' Receipts, &c 1,501,400

Appropriation from Famine Insurance Grant .... 453,400

To be raised by Railway Companies 3,000,000

Rupee Loans 2,000,000

Reduction in Cash Balances 11,074,500

Total 19,340,500

The estimated balances on 31st March, 1914, are : In India, 12,428,800/. ; in England, 5,461,000/. (including 1,018,600/. on account of the Gold Standard Reserve).

Railway Programme.

The proposed distribution of the 12,000,000/. to be spent on railways is as follows :

£

Open Lines, including rolling stock 10,124,600

Lines under construction 1,875,400

12,000,000 Trade, 1912.— The total imports of merchandise, aad exports of domestic produce, of India in 1911 and 1912 are as follows : —

1912 1911

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Imports. . . 105,766,000 94,910,000

Exports (domestic produce). . 160,146,000 145,011,000

SARAWAK. A Government Agency and an Advisory Council have been established in England to carry out such administrative and other functions in relation to Sarawak as can be dis- charged in England. The first members of the Council are : Mr. B. W, D. Brooke, Mr. C, A, Bampfylde, Mr, H. F. Deshon, and Mr, C H. W, Johnson.