F.-MARINE 2.

Statement showing number of Officers and Men employed otherwise than in Government Vessels during 1872-73.

PART III.

STATISTICS OF PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.

A.-FINANCE.

1.-Account of the gross and net Revenues of Bengal for the year 1872-73.

A-FINANCE.-(Continued.)

2.-Account of the expenditure from the net income of Bengal for the year

1872-73.

AMOUNT.

Subject of Expenditure.

Cause of increase or decrease.

Last year
1871-72.

Present year
1872-73.

A special payment in 1871-72 of Rs. 42,968 for interest on refund of purchase money of an estate; against larger payments of interest on Presidency and District Savings Bank deposits and on charges in 1872-73.

Higher rate of pay drawn in 1872-78 by the member of the Legislative Council, and first charges for 3rd freight on stationery stores and for collection of statistics against which charges of the local funds establishment of the Accountant-Generals office, have been transferred to Provincial services.

Deficient balance (Rs. 37,221) of Inland Labor Transport Fund, written off in 1872-73. A special payment of Rs. 9,316 made to the Asiatic Society as compensation for loss of house accommodation consequent on the non-completion of the Indian Museum building; increase under travelling allowance to Chaplains, &c., for visiting out stations, and charges for cooly corps on account of Garo Hill expeditions, as also for demarcation of boundaries between British and Nativo States; against these there were smaller payments for the Lieutenant-Governor's tours and for purchases of states, &c. Vacancies in the High Court owing to the demise and absence of Puisne Judges; transfer to Land Revenue of the half pay and establishments of Moonsiff's in non-regulated districts appointed as Extra Assistant Commissioners, abolition of the posts of some Civil Court ameens, adjustment of official postage partly in 1871-72 and smaller charges for purchasing law publications. Against these there was the salary of Mr. S. Wauchope, appointed as Commissioner of Calcutta Police in February 1872.

Chiefly due to all the marine expenditure incurred on account of the Looshai expedition in 1871-72 having been adjusted in the military accounts.

Larger payments for superannuations.

Special allotments granted for fever relief in
Burdwan, for compensation for the late
Sudder Court, and for capitalization of a
portion of the grant for office rent.

I Chiefly to larger expenditure in 1872-73 for
jails, epidemic hospitals, public works, and
district road fund.

Largely due to a payment in 1871-72 to the Nawab Nazim in England for minority claims.

H. J. S. COTTON.

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B.-PUBLIC WORKS.

1.-Statement of Expenditure of Money in the Public Works Department in Bengal in the year 1872-73.

B.-PUBLIC WORKS.-(Continued.)

2.-Statement showing the Income and Expenditure of Reproductive Works in the Public Works Department in Bengal in the year 1872-73.