( לרכי ) [ PART IIA. briefly discuss the points raised by District or Local Boards, or by Committees of Management, or by District Officers during the year. 166. A quarterly statement of all payments made for educational purposes within the * District on the authority of the District Board shall be forwarded by the District Board to the Inspector. 167. District Magistrate a report of its operations At the close of every financial year the District Board shall submit to the The Magistrate shall on or before the 1st May forward the same to the Inspector, and the latter shall submit it to the Director with his remarks. 168. All schools managed and maintained by District or Local Boards shall be bound to submit such annual and periodical returns as may be called for by the Educational Department, and periodical or other indents in regard to all such schools shall be submitted in forms approved by the department. & 169. All schools, not being grant-in-aid schools, managed and maintained by District Boards, shall be obliged to select their text-books from a list published by the Director of Public Instruction. J. Waas Edgaa, Offy. Secy. to the Govt. of Bengal. Second Publication. NOTIFICATION, The 15th February 1886.-It is hereby notified for general information that, in supersession of all existing rules under section 15 of Act III (B.C.) of 1884, the Lieutenant-Governor proposes to lay down the following rules for the conduct of all future elections in muniolpalities (except Howrah and the Suburbs of Calcutta) which are now existing, or which may hereafter be created under the provisions of the said Act; and that the proposed rules will be taken into consideration on or after the 1st April 1886, when any objections or suggestions which may be made by any person and received before that date will also be oonsidered. 1. In these rules — (a) The term “the Magistrate " has the meaning presorbed by section 5, clause (8) of the Act. (b) A “general election” means an election held under section 14 of the Aot. (c) A “by-election” means an election held under section 27 of the Act. Of the qualification of voters. 2. Persons otherwise qualified to vote must be males, who have been resident within the limits of the municipality for twelve months before the date of the election, and who have attained the age of 21 years. 3. Subject to the above rule, all persons who have, during the municipal, year immediately preceding the election, paid an aggregate amount of not less than Re. 1-8 in respect of any of the rates or taxes imposed by the Act and specified in the following rule, and who have been duly registered as hereinafter provided, shall be qualifled to vote. [Government Gasette, 9th Marak 1886.] 4. The following are the rates and taxes referred to by the preceding rule:— (1). The tax upon persons occupying hold ings under section 85, clause (a). (2). The rate upon the annual value of all holdings levied under section 85, clause (b). w The water-rate on the annual value of holdings levied under Part VII. The lighting rate on the annual value of all holdings levied under Part VIII. *r The fees for house-service levied under Part. IX. The tax upon carriages or horses, &c., levied under section 18l. 5. Subject to the provisions of rule 2, any person who, being a member of a joint undivided family, one of the members of which has, during the muniopal year preceding such election, paid in respect of any of the rates or taxes referred to in the preceding rule an aggregate amount of not less than Re 1-8, is a graduate or licentiate of any University, or holds a certificate as a pleader or mooktear, or holds any office or employment carrying a salary of not less than Rs. 50 per o: 轉。 (3). (4). (5). (6).
