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the new hospital| the proposed new palaoe and
various projects sons of which have already been
ooBEsnoed,
The largest item of expenditure is
h 9020,000/- which is the Civil List and the

on© third of the total oil revenue which ic paid
to the Privy Purse of the liuler* The last item
varies according to the auount of royalty and as
I have stated the royalty will certainly be much

more than the amount I have estimated*
The expenditure on Government Departments,
Protection, iledioal, Public works etc* has been
assessed at slightly more than in the last Budget

in order to cover expansion in oertain direetions
and oertain proposed increases in the Government
staff. The total recurrent expenditure, includ-
ing the Civil List but not including l/3rd royalty

is only half a lao more than the actual revenue
in 1355 from all sources other than oil revenue*
Assuming that the non oil revenue for Ih56 is not
less than during 1355 it is evident that the otute
could be administered, as it is now, without the

oil revenue*
I can count upon there being a surplus of
three and a half lacs at the end of the yoar and
1 am confident that this surplus will be greatly

in excess of my expectation*
4* he serve Fund*
At the end of year 1355 the Reserve fund
was increased from two laos to four laos. At the
beginning of 1356 the litate had a balance of
h