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toanamah municipality.

Revenue ibb2 i.o bb,6uv;/-
expenditure ldbfc 4y,4uu/-

revenue i<35d b«,£VA>/-
expenditure ob, ^6^/ -

The activities oi* the municipality have
oeen somewhat restricted owing to the need lor
economy and apart iron the routine work such

as cleaning the town ana repairing the roads
etc. very little important work has been aone
auring the year.

&. .Municipal elections. Towards the ena or
the year there was a municipal election ana the
representative composition oi the council was
changed in accordance to the request oi the
ohia community who recently asKSu the government

to increase the number oi* the ohia members on
the municipal council. The election was
carried cut in the usual way, by voting. A

list ol' qua nr led electors was shown on the
municipal notice board, for ten days ana members
oi’ each community voted on appointed aays.
electors appeared at the municipal oirice in

person ana 1'ilieu in the voting earns which
they piacea in a closed ballot box which was
openea after the election in the presence or
a committee. rreviously no person was quali­

fied to .vote unless he paid not less than 3s ty­
per annum in municipal taxes, this amount has
been reaucea to .M b/- as the general scaie or