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VYSORE. 109 £45,21S; public works, £93,600; religious and charitable institutions, £27,965. Local Funds. -For the maintenance of District roads and other local objects, a cess is levied of i anna in the rupee on the land revenue, and on certain minor collections. The former cess of i anna in the rupce, also levied on irrigated lands for the maintenance of the tanks in cach District, is now merged in the land revenue, of which oneseventeenth is set apart for irrigation works. The amount collected on account of local funds in 1875-76 was £51,206, and in 1883-84 71,157, of which 24 per cent. was set apart for the support of village schools. Junicipalities have been established at all District head-quarters. The total number of municipalities in 1980-81 was 84, as against 77 the year before. The total population within niunicipal limits was, in 1881, 503,444. The niunicipal committees in 1880-si consisted of ex officio members and non-official members who are nominated by the President of the Board and approved by the Local Government. In 1880-81 there were 341 members on the various local boards, 89 of whom were ex officio. The total municipal income in 1880-81 was £12,113, and the expenditure £35,228. The income is chiefly derived from octroi duties, and taxes on houses and shops. In 1880–81, £16,307 was derived from the former source, and £10,510 from the latter. Traders paid for licences, £4271. The number of municipalities in 1883-84 was 86; total receipts, £29,885; and expenditure, £ 26,693. Public Works.—Prior to 1856, most public works not of a technical character were executed by the civil officers, great attention being paid to tanks and to the main communications of the State. The outlay from 1831 to 1856 was—on irrigation works, £325,000; on roads, £287,500 ; and on buildings, £60,000. Since the institution of the Public Works Department, the total outlay during twenty years, exclusive of establishment, was £1,890,925, of which £967,491 was assigned to communications, £528,017 to agriculture and irrigation, and £,291,995 to civil buildings. Even before the time of the famine special attention had for several years been given to the restoration, on a regular system, of the more important tanks; and down to 1879 a sumn of £208,317 was spent for this purpose. The Public Works expenditure in 1880–81 was £163,231. In addition, £155,725 was spent on the Mysore State Railway. The Budget Grant for 1883–84 was £153,600, of which £95,000 was for Provincial service works, £48,500 for District works, and £10,100 for irrigation works. Forests.-In 1863-64, a Forest Conservancy Department was intro. duced, which has materially conduced to the preservation of valuable timber, while reserving the rights of cultivators to trees on their