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From Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, 1st May 1920.
5307. My telegram dated 13th. April, No. 4491:. Following are provisional
estimated receipts and expenditure, 1920--21 :—Receipts : Land Revenue 158 lakhs
Rs. 15,000, Date Tax 18 lakhs Rs. 37,000, Koda 21 lakhs Rs. 37,000, Tapii 5 lakhs
Rs. 72,500, Miscellaneous Revenue 14 lakhs Rs. 54,790, Surveys Rs. 70,000, Agri
culture Rs. 50,000, Customs Rs. 82,000, Judicial 7 lakhs Rs. 82,800, Jails 3 lakhs
Rs. 71,500, Political and General 2 lakhs Rs. 11,550, Police Rs. 70,000, Education
Rs. 37,000, Medical 1 lakh Rs. 17,000, Press 6 lakhs Rs. 60,000, Publications 1 lakh
Rs. 85,000, Interest Rs. 30,000, Posts 47 lakhs, 93 lakhs (sic), Rs. 600, Telegraphs
45 lakhs Rs. 81,000, Transport 4 lakhs, Stores 4 lakhs Rs. 50,000, Public Works
(Military Contribution towards upkeep of roads) 3 lakhs, Miscellaneous 6 lakhs,
Remounts (? Rs. 65,000), Payment for Revenue Grains sold to the Army in 1918
35 lakhs, contributions from army for quasi-military duties of Levies and Police,
18 lakhs. Total 666 lakhs Rs. 68,740. Expenditure: Revenue 27 lakhs Rs. 98,000,
Tapu 4 lakhs Rs. 45,000, Land Settlement 2 lakhs Rs. 80,000, Surveys 6 lakhs,
Irrigation 57 lakhs Rs. 17,000, Finance 8 lakhs, Agriculture 6 lakhs Rs. 77,000,
Customs 44 lakhs, Political and General 64 lakhs, Judicial 12 lakhs, Jails 7 lakhs
Rs. 55,000, Public Works 94 lakhs, Police 70 lakhs, Levies 45 lakhs, Education
18 lakhs Rs. 35,000, Medical 25 lakhs, Transport by land and water including cost of
:ansport for Public Works and all other departments 70 la khs^. Stores 7 lakhs
Rs. 50,000, Posts 38 lakhs Rs. 14,000, Telegraphs 35 lakhs Rs. 89,000, Presses
8 lakhs Rs. 20,000, Publications 1 lakh Rs. 68,000, Miscellaneous Rs. 48,000, Sub
sistence Allowance, &c., 18 lakhs Rs 54,100, Remounts, &c., 10 lakhs Rs. 82,000,
quasiACaqf 2 lakhs, Stationery 3 lakhs, Ecclesiastical Rs. 20,000, Archaeological
1 lakh. Total 719 lakhs Rs. 52,100. Deficit approximately 44 lakhs. Accumulated
surplus from 1919-20 and previous years after deducting 25 lakhs for debits in India
and the United Kingdom and allotting 50 lakhs to railway capital expenditure
75 lakhs. Estimated surplus at end of March 1921 31 lakhs. Above figures take no
account of Railways or Port which will be self-supporting and will be dealt with
separately and excluded from general revenues. No provision made for interest on
capital debit on account of any property taken over. Great bulk of this will be on
account of Port and Railways. Ottoman debt figures excluded from both receipts and
expenditures. I assume payment on this account will not be enforced retrospectively.
Above figures do not include cost of acquisition of land for military purposes as to
which see your P. 8002, dated 16th February, to War Office. Estimated expenditure
under Public Works includes 49 lakhs on new works costing over Rs. 20,000 of which
about 13 lakhs represents expenditure (? on) houses in cantonment—-outside Baghdad
to permit of early evacuation of billets. Larg^ re 1 notions in original estimate of
expenditure already made, but further scrutiny is in progress to secure greater
reduction if possible and to ascertain what expenditure if any properly debitable to
capital, after which situation will be fully reviewed in despatch—which I hope to
send about end of month.