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Appeal Court. Ten appeal cases from the Bahrain Court were heard by the Appeal Court of
which six were disposed of. In most cases the judgment of the Bahrain Court was upheld.

The amount of court fees collected during the year was Rs. 9.520 and fines amounting to
Rs. 7,887 were imposed. Most of the fines were paid by offenders against food control regulations.

Comparing the work of the courts in 1361 to previous years it appears that there was a decrease
in important civil claims and an increase in petty criminal cases and small civil suits.

MUNIdPAUmES.

Manamah Municipality. The revenue for the year was Rs. 1,09,000 and the expenditure was
Rs. 96,000. The Municipal Reserve Fund at the end of the year amounted to Rs. 1,32,500. The
revenue was very slightly more than in 1360.
The most important work done by the Municipality, which was paid for by a special grant by
the Government, was the extension of the Manamah Sea Road from its western end to beyond the
Government Hospital, a distance of about 327 yards. In addition to constructing the road, which is
40 feet wide, a piece of land in front of the hospital inside the road was reclaimed by stone filling and a
road from the shore to the new road, with a slipway for boats on the sea side, was built. The new
road was still under construction at the end of the year. This wide sea road ten feet above the water
which skirts the seafront of Manamah from one end of the town to the other, which crosses the mile and
a half of sea that divides the two islands and extends along the shore of Moharraq town till it reaches
the open country has now a total length of about 3$ miles. Hundreds of thousands of tons of coral
stone cut from the sea have been used for its construction.
Other road work done by the Municipality during the year included making new raised roads
on the low land south of the town which used to be a swamp. This area which is now reclaimed, has
been divided into sections crossed by wide roads and provides the only ground close to the town which is
available for town expansion. A number of streets in the bazaar were widened and street surfaces
were covered with oil patch.
The compound of the Lunatic Asylum was extended and some improvements were made to the
building. A low lying area on the south of the Naim district was filled in with town rubbish covered
with sand.

The Municipality co-operated with the Government in various A.R.P. measures especially by
building another 90 trenches in various parts of the town and by removing all thatch roofs from the
Manamah bazaar.

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dealing with the ratanineo’f'",Clp?!Iy tHr°Ugh lts Secretary» gave valuable help to the Government by
The Secretarv ako Manamah public and by assigning authorised shops for selling rations.
in small quantities to poor ^ople. ^ aiTanecments for se,Iin« dates in the vi]lagcs near Manamah

bv the Municinal^n^h165*^^great increase in Pauper burials, over a hundred persons were buried
Cloth* for Z ring the ycar aS their relations' “ a"y. could not afford to buy grave