Section 11. (a) From such fund the Chief Commissioner shall in each year appropriate, in such manner as the Gove

11. (a) From such fund the Chief Commissioner shall in each year appropriate, in such manner as the Governor General in Council from time to time directs, such amount, not exceeding four-ninths of the proceeds of the rate assessed in such year under this Act, as the Governor General in Council may direct, for the purpose of increasing the revenues available for defraying expenditure incurred or to be incurred for the relief and prevention of famine in the said territories, or, if the Governor General in Council so directs, in any other part of British India. (b) The Chief Commissioner may, from time to time, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, assign from such fund such amount as he thinks fit, to be applied in payment of charges incurred or to be incurred on account of such canals and railways as he may declare to be works of general provincial utility: Provided that the amounts so assigned in any year shall not exceed one-eighteenth of the proceeds of the rates assessed in such year. (c) Subject to such appropriation, the Chief Commissioner shall from time to time allot from the said fund such amounts as he thinks fit, to be applied in each district for expenditure on all or any of the following purposes: (1.) The construction, repair and maintenance of roads and other means of communication; (2.) The construction and repair of school-houses, the maintenance and inspection of schools, the training of teachers, and the establishment of scholarships; (3.) The 1878.] Oudh Local Rules. 35 (3.) The construction and repair of hospitals, dispensaries, lunatic asylums, markets, wells and tanks; the payment of all charges connected with the purposes for which such buildings or works have been constructed, and any other local works and undertakings of public utility likely to promote the public health, comfort or convenience: Provided that the amounts so allotted in any year for any district shall not be less than one-half of the proceeds of the rate assessed in such district in such year.