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finance.
Total revenue 1348 ■ - Es 1,06,358/10/7
1349 62,287/7/4

Expenditure 1349 68,662/8/-
Balance enl of *49 47,763/14/l.
The Municipal revenue, which depends partly on local

taxation, shows a considerable felling off apert from the
reduction of the Government subsidy from Ivs 24,OOli/- in
1348 to Ss 12,000/- in 1349,

Trade depression lies affected the jisyment of taxes,
some seven hundred householders have failed to puv most
of them beinr divers who made nothing during the last

season and received no advances this year.
The Municipalities should eventually become self sup­ :
porting but this cannot be done without raising the murii-
ci^al texes on shops end houses, which are at present v^ry

low especially in the case of bazarr property, The taxes
were assessed according to no roitular system and the amounts

ere very inconsistent, It was proposed that a rocssess-
ment should be lacdo but this proposal, like any others the t
are likely to affect the purses of'the members of the council
themselves, was received with no enthusiasm, In matters

of finance which touch their pockets the nm.icipal coun­
cillors* show a conspicuous lack of public feeling.
The following improvements vcrc carried out during 1349.

Cemeteries. A disused cemetery at I'ozobic was surrounded
by a six feet well, it is no longer used as houses have been
built very neur to it.

The Sunni oni Jhie cemeteries on the south of the to; n have
been v/alled in, leaving enou h space for expansion. This has
much improved the appearance of the southern side of the town,

and has provided work for numbers of boats employed in bringing
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