Section 61. (1) The committee shall set apart and apply annually out of the municipal fund

61. (1) The committee shall set apart and apply annually out of the municipal fund— (a) first, such sum as may be required for the payment of any amounts falling due on any loan legally contracted by it; (b) secondly, such sum as may be required to meet the charges of its own establishment, including such subscriptions and contributions as are referred to in sections 34 and 35; (c) thirdly, such sum as may be required to pay the expenses of pauper lunatics sent to public asylums from the municipality, the expenses incurred in auditing the accounts of the committee, and such portion of the cost of the Provincial Departments for Education, Sanitation, Vaccination, Medical Relief and Public Works as may be held by the Local Government to be equitably debitable to the committee in return for services rendered to it by these Departments. (2) Subject to the charges specified in sub-section (1) and to such rules as the Local Government may make with respect to the priority to be given to the several duties of the committee, the municipal fund shall be applicable to the payment, in whole or in part, of the charges and expenses incidental to the following matters within the municipality, and with the sanction of the Commissioner outside the municipality, 1884.] Burma Municipalities. 207 (Chapter V.—Funds and Property.—Section 61.) cipality, when such application of the fund is for the benefit of the inhabitants, namely:— (a) the construction, maintenance, improvement, cleansing and repair of streets, and of public bridges, embankments, drains, latrines, tanks and water-courses; (b) the watering and lighting of the streets or any of them; (c) the construction, establishment and maintenance of schools, hospitals and dispensaries, and other institutions for the promotion of education or for the benefit of the public health, and of rest-houses, zayáts, wharves, poor-houses, markets, encamping-grounds, pounds and other works of public utility, and the control and administration of public institutions of any of these descriptions; (d) grants-in-aid to schools, hospitals, dispensaries, poor-houses, leper asylums and other educational or charitable institutions; (e) the training of teachers and the establishment of scholarships; (f) the giving of relief and the establishment and maintenance of relief-works in time of famine or scarcity; (g) the supply, storage and preservation from pollution of water for the use of men or animals; (h) the planting and preservation of trees; (i) the taking of a census, the registration of births, marriages and deaths, public vaccination and any other sanitary measure; (j) the holding of fairs and industrial exhibitions; and (k) all acts and things likely to promote the safety, health, welfare or convenience of the inhabitants.