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is of more lasting value than this negligible sura that
has been savod.
Economies hove been made wherever possible in

other directions. Education has been reduced by 25$,
savings have been mode in some of the departmental
expenditure, and these reductions have been accomplished
without materially affecting the essential activities
of the State but the total amount allocated on the
expenditure side, apart from the Civil List, is the
very lowest sum with which the State can continue its
present functions.
It would endanger the state of Public Security
to reduce the newly organised Police Force, or the
naturs; the sum allocated for medical services is
very small in proportion to the needs of the public,
in fact if money was available this is a department-
which more than any other deserves extension; the

municipalities too, without their monthly grant of
Bs 1,000/- each, which is exactly half the subsidy they
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used to receive some years ago, would not have suffi­
:
cient funds to carry on the very useful work which they
do today and which is perhaps one of the most conspicuous

r advertisements of the improved conditions existing now
in Bahrain.
= In spite of the amount which was saved owing to
the death of late Shaikh Sir Isa and the 2*$ reduction

on the Civil List, the total sum required to meet the
Civil List is Hs 3, 80, Soo/— which is 59,8$ of thejsstimated
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revenue and considerably over half the total annual
I expenditure.

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rfk $36,0^0 j
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