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359 police, it has been arranged to cany to the receipt side of the budget the sums appropriated in aid of it from the Badalieh fund. This fund is retained distinct and assigned to the same special purposes as hitherto. The total sum to be appropriated in 1910 is i>E. 149,000, and a corresponding sum has been entered on the expenditure side of the budget and divided between the chapters ‘ Police ’ and ‘ Army ’ and a special chapter entitled ‘Indemnities to conscripts at the end of their period of obligatory service.’

“ The budget of expenditure for 1910 is rendered dijSicult of comparison with that of the current year, “ (1) by the inclusion as explained above of sums on account of gratuities to conscripts on discharge and supplementary pay to the police, previously charged to the Military Exemption Fund; “ (2) by the transfer of the police expenditure from the budget of the Interior to that of the Provinces and Governorates, and of the subventions to Municipalities and Local Commissions from the same budget to that of ‘ Services divers des Ministeres.’

“The total expenditure shows an increase of £E. 300,000. To the extent of £E. 149,000 this increase is merely apparent, being due, as already explained, to the inclusion of the expenditure met out of the Military Exemption Fund, compensated by a corresponding receipt on the revenue side.

“As regards the remaining £E. 151,000 of the increase, it arises to the extent of £E. 112,000 on the special credits, and there remains £E. 39,000 as the apparent amount of the net increase on the ordinary budget. The real increase is larger, for account must be taken of certain reductions of credits for the manufacture of articles in the Government workshops, which are balanced by corresponding reductions of receipts.

“ The real net increase of ordinary expenditure provided in the budget of 1910 is about £E. 90,000, of which the following are the principal items :— Increases— Ministry of Education ., .. Ministry of Justice Provinces and Governorates (including' Police) Department of Public Health .. Department of Prisons .. ... ., Ministry of Public .AVorhs .. Decreases-Kaihvays Subvention to the Soudan Govenimeut £E. .. 27,000 .. 37,000 .. 40,000 8,000 5,000 .. 6,000 .. 44,000 .. 10,000 “The special credits for non-recurrent expenditure reach a total of £E. 712,000 as compared with £E. 610,000 in 1909. The unexpended balance of special credits granted in former yearn, and carried over into 1910, is estimated at £E. 350,000, as against £E. 340,000 in the previous year.

“The increase in the special credits is compensated to the extent of £E. 50,000 by the increase in the sum to be credited to revenue next year on account of the Cairo Tramway Company’s contribution to the.Boulak bridge works. Moreover, a credit of £E. 52,000 has been provided for prophylactic measures against human and bovine plague; the cost of these measures was previously met by means of supplementary credits granted in the course of the year.

“ The other credits are enumerated in detail in the budget; the only items calling for special notice are the following “(1.) £E. 33,000 is provided to complete the Lunatic Asylum at Khanka. The asylum should be finished by the end of 1910 and will, it is hoped, suffice to meet the crying need for increased accommodation for lunatics ; “ (2.) £E. 180,000 is provided for the continuation of the work on the new bridge between Boulak and Ghezireh; ,£E. 29,000 is provided for the road along the Bahrel-Aama; and £E. 50,000 towards the construction of a quay at Boulak. Both these latter works are to be carried out in conformity with the convention entered into with the Cairo Tramway Company, by virtue of which the company contributes £E. 200,000 towards the cost of the works and the construction of the bridge; “ (3..) Provision is made for the construction of a new Summary Tribunal in the Attarin district of Alexandria, for a Parcels Post Office in Cairo, for a new Markaz at Kous, and for certain new police posts. A sum of £ E. 10,000 is also provided for the construction of a telegraph line to the Oasis of Siwa, the urgent need for which was demonstrated this autumn.”

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