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All the Representatives of the Native States in Káthiáwád agree to the following
Resolution :—
" Our ordinary expenditure on vaccination is Rupees 10,740 : instead of that amount we
will in future subscribe annually Rupees 9,876 to form a common vaccination fund. Such States
as at present subscribe will continue to do so, and in proportion to their present donation.
For this year Rupees 10,000 will be sanctioned, and whatever remains will be carried to the
credit of next year. This sum is placed entirely at the disposal of the Superintendent of
Vaccination. We request that the Superintendent will dismiss or transfer elsewhere the
vaccinators who do not behave well, and that he will listen to the complaints made to him
by the tálukdárs. The present arrangement is to be in force for three years, and if it be
found to work badly, the tálukdárs will, at the expiration of that term, take back the control
of their own vaccinators. The Superintendent of Vaccination is responsible for the accounts ;
he will receive and pay the money, keeping the balance in deposit at the Local Funds' office.
Money will be supplied to the Superintendent of Vaccination on his requisitions."
Until I had sufficient funds at my disposal I allowed matters to remain as they were.
In the beginning of September I was informed by the Officer in charge of the Treasury,
Rájkot, that part of the subscriptions had been received, and that steps would be taken to
recover the amount still due. In the meanwhile I had taken every possible information on
the number and size of the villages in a given district, the nature of the country, the
qualifications of the vaccinators employed at the time, and on these data I distributed the
men. With Colonel Anderson's permission I had the following notification published in the
Káthiáwád Agency Gazette :—
" At the Darbár held at Rájkot on the 7th July last, the Kárbhárís of the several
Native States, on the recommendation of the Political Agent in Káthiáwád, agreed to a
scheme proposed by the Superintendent of Vaccination in Káthiawád, and they placed the
distribution of the whole vaccination department under the sole control of the Superin-
tendent of Vaccination, Káthiáwád.
" Agreeably to that Resolution the Superintendent of Vaccination informs all concerned
that the following rules will have effect from the 1st instant:—
" (a.)—The province of Káthiáwád being already divided for administration purposes
into four divisions, these divisions will be adopted for the distribution of the vaccinators.
" (b.)—Mr. Ranchoddás Mangaldás, 1st Native Assistant Superintendent of Vaccination,
will have charge of the Northern and Western Divisions, and Mr. Kánojí Jayarám, 2nd
Native Assistant. Superintendent of Vaccination, of the Eastern and Southern Divisions.
" (c.)—No vaccinator in this province will, after the 1st instant, be designated Deputy
or Native Superintendent of Vaccination, except the two Deputy Superintendents above-
named, and who have been gazetted to their appointment by the Government of Bombay.
" (d.)—The following will, from the 1st instant, be the rank and pay of the vaccinators
and their distribution in the different divisions :—
Northern
Division.
2
1
3
1
7
Vaccinators on Rs. 20 each per month ... ... ...
„
„ 18 per month ... ... ...
„
„ 15 each per month ... ... ...
„
„ 14 per month ... ... ...
Peons
„
7 each per month ... ... ...
Total per month...
Rs.
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„
„
„
40
18
45
14
49
—Rs.
166