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73. Municipalities and Local Commissions.
425. The number of mixed municipalities (13) has remained unchanged. Local
commissions have increased from 49 to 52 and village councils from 12 to 14.
Municipal taxes are now being paid in all places where local commissions have been
established, except at Helwan and Akhmim.
426. The budgets of the seventy-nine mixed and local commissions and village
councils (excluding ten village councils recentlv created which have not yet prepared
their budgets) for the financial year 1921-22 sfiow the following totals :—
Ordinary Budget— £E.
Government subvention ... ... 162,681
Other resources ... ... ... 567,639
Total ... ... ... 730,320
Extraordinary Budget ... ... ... 317,916
The corresponding figures for the preceding year were :—
Ordinary Budget—
Government subvention ... 161,056
Other resources ... ... ... 479,163
Total 640,219
Extraordinary Budget ... ... ... 275,766
427. Loans, amounting in the aggregate to £E. 228,800, were granted by the
Government and devoted to the following objects :—
£E.
Lighting, Damanhur ... ... ... 20,000
Lighting, Bilbeis ... ... ... 4,400
Lighting, Zagazig ... ... ... 15,000
Water, Mansura ... ... ... 5,000
Water, Rosetta .. ... ... 11,000
Water, Mataria-Manzala ... ... 92.000
Water, small installations ... ... 400
Water, experimental filter ... ... 2,000
Drainage, Mansura ... ... ... 78,000
Tanzim works in various towns ... ... 1,000
228,800
To this sum of £E. 228,800 should be added the amount lent by the Government
to municipalities to enable them to pay the high cost ot living allowances to
municipal staff, viz., £E. 79,372.
428. In the various branches of engineering work great progress has again
been made during the past year. The important filtered water supply for Mataria-
Menzala, so long delayed by the war, is on the point of completion and will be put
into operation almost immediately at a total cost of about £E. 148,000. The new
water supplies for Akhmim and Rosetta have been completed and are nowr working.
Small water installations have also been constructed at Abu Tig, Baliana, Kous and
Maghagha, while improvements and extensions to existing plants have been carried
out at Mansura, Benha, Bilbeis, Damietta and Menouf. Similar work is at present
in progress at Shebin-el-Kom, Damietta, Dessouk, Kafr-el-Zayat and Sherbin.
Schemes have been prepared for new and improved water supplies for Girga, Minia
and Kafr-el-Zayat. The electric lighting installation at Damanhur, which was
interrupted by the war, has been almost completed, and those at Zagazig and Bilbeis
enlarged while an additional plant ha& been ordered foi MAnsura. During 1921
the electric lighting installation at Helwan, which was previously the property of
a companv. was purchased by the local commission.
429 The drainage schemes for the towns of Mansura and isuez, which are being
executed by the Main Drainage Department of the Ministry of Public Works, have
made considerable progress and will very shortly be put into partial operation.
430 The architectural work done by the Municipalities Department for the
provincial councils has still further increased, covering the design of new schools
and other buildings and the inspection of repairs and modifications to existing
ones.