APPENDIX.

                                                (RESOLUTION.)

                                        JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT.

                                                  MEDICAL.

                                    Calcutta, the 13th June 1872.

READ again—

The proceedings of this Government, noted below, referring to the system of accounts
and returns in the Dullunda Lunatic Asylum, and the appointment of a committee
to consider and report on the existing system of accounts in that asylum.
Medical Proceedings, January 1872, Nos. 18-19.

READ also—

The letter (No. 125 of the 3rd May 1872), from the Inspector-General of Hospitals,
Indian Medical Department, submitting the report of the committee on the
system of accounts and management of the industrial fund at that asylum.

1. The recommendations of the committee are as follows, viz.:—

(a)    That all money received be paid into, and all money expended be drawn from,
the treasury.

(b)    That all money received and disbursed be entered in a cash-book, which will
be daily balanced and signed by the superintendent.

(c)     That a stock-book shall be kept, in which every article in stock shall be
separately entered, and which should be balanced monthly.

(d)    That all fines be deducted from the monthly salary bills before they are
cashed.

(e)     That expenditure hitherto incurred on account of the industrial fund shall
be budgetted for yearly, and that within the limits of this budget, the
superintendent shall have a discretionary power of incurring outlay up to Rs. 200
for any article, except raw materials, whose purchase is only limited by the budget
assignment.

(f) That the pay bills for fixed establishment be presented direct to the treasury,
the money being drawn on the superintendent's signature.

(g) That the services of a good accountant be entertained.

(h) That dieting be strictly regulated by diet scales which have been drawn up by
the medical members.

(i) That all articles of supply required by the asylum, with the exception of raw
materials for manufacture, the manner of whose provision shall be left to the
discretion of the superintendent, shall be obtained by public contract, tenders
being opened, and decided upon by the visitors, as proposed in the Inspector-
General's letter No. 851, dated 23rd November last.