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BUDGET - 1350.

SMJDITURE.
The expenditure for 1350 has been reduced to the very
z-iaimum amount end no provision hc-s been cede for any deve­
lopments or new undertakings. The total expenditure
i* 832,516/- represents the ordinary recurrent expenses of
the State including such items as medical and educational
works, public sucurity etc. etc.
I. Allowances to Ruling Family. According to the
correspondence which has passed on this subject the Civil List
has been reduced by 10Jb and all the additional allowsnees have
been cancelled, the total expenditure under the heading,
8fter the reductions is slightly over half the whole esti­
mated revenue of the State for 1350.
II. Protection. The estimated expenditure on protection
bes been diminished by about Rs 30,000/- less than last year’s
allocation by means of a large reduction in the Indian Police
Force and a slight reduction in the naturs. The 3udget
allows for a force of 50 Indian ranks, with the Commandant
oC Police and Indian Officer, and a force of 50 local police
«ith Superintendent end about 125 naturs.
Ill Government departments. The total allocation for
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this heading shows a reduction of about b 12,000/- in compari­

son to the previous year, this has been achieved by o reduction
in the number of the staff.
IV. Education. A reduction of b 10,000/- under this head­
ing is mainly obtained by the State no longer having to pay
fnr the education- of Bahrain students at Beyrou-t.
7. Medical. A reduction of 9,000/- has been irade by
deciding not to send the hosuitel boat out to the pearl banks
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for four months but to arrange for the Indian doctor on tour
the banks in 8 motor launch, three times during each month of
the pearling season.
71. Ihir.ic ins li ties. The government subsidy of b 2000/- per

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