The following table? show in .summary fprin the estimated revenue and expenditure of the Ministry of "W-akts for t{ie iinanpialjears 1,919 and 1,920.

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Revenue of wakf property— Rent of buildings Rent of fallow land Tlie Ijikr property .. ' Rent of agricultural .lands Crops Payments by theMinistry of Pindnce 'J’ransfer of revenue due to the-Khairia wakfs from the Ahlia Transferred from the \yakfs of.

Uaramein to Khairia wakfs General revenue .. Amounts due from previous year ,.

Grand Total.

1919. 1920, 95.000 6,500 4,000 294,909 55.000 29,600 24.000 • ,7,500 106,000 6.500 '3,400 418,200 51,740 46,360 35,000 7.500 1919.

516,909 103,000 65,000 685,000 1920.

680,000 140,000 35,000 855,000 SUMMARY of Expenses.

158,775 149,598 113,704 71,824 30,000 25,.574 46,494 87,500 Nil Nil 184.000 134,200 115,984 84,516 34,800 33,500 50.000 200.000 10.000 3,000 Description.

Administrative expenses Expenditure on lands and buildings Expenditure on zawias, mosques, &c, Religious and educational institutions Kuttabs Tikias, &c. .. Charities War allowance Loan (from the*finance) Reserve for unexpected expenses E.xcess of revenue 62. Preservation of Arab Monuments. After the retirement of the late Herz Pasha in 1914, the organisation placed under the Committee for the Preservation of Arab Monuments was divided into two branches, the Arab Museum and the Works Department, and each branch has been able to devote itself with greater energy to its specialised activities.

The Budget of the Works Department has been increased, and stood in the year 1919-20 at £E. 14,600, but, as will be seen, the Department has in recent years very considerably extended its field of operations, and it is still much in need of funds. The question of personnel, which has been during the war, and still is, inadequate to the wider scope of the Department, presents difficulties which are only likely to disappear with a reorganisation of the cadre calculated to provide improved prospects for the staff, and to place at the disposal of the committee a sufficiency of scientific and archseolocal knowledge.

During the period under review the Committee had made an important change of policy. It had been the practice not to select as worthy of preservation any monument which, though it might be of artistic, archaeological, or historical value, belonged to a private Wakf, or even to a Wakf without revenue, or was in an advanced state of disrepair. In 1918, however, a law was passed which, discarding the hitherto preponderant economic considerations, declares to be worthy of preservation all [3437 y-2] . N 2 House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Online. Copyright (c) 2006 ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved.