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The editor and local superintendent will also have from 

 time to time to visit the capitals of the States that are willing 

 to start a Bardic and Historical Office and help the Survey by 

 making a preliminary search of the materials in their territory. 

 Visits to other States will also be necessary in particular cases 

 and chiefly in the case of places that possess some materials 

 connected with the history of Jodhpur, or places in which 

 some very important discovery is reported to have been made. 

 For such visits to places out of Marwar an annual sum of 

 Rs 500 should be given as a travelling fund. Two other funds 

 will be necessary to the Survey and these are a fund for 

 purchasing and borrowing manuscripts, say Rs. 300 yearly, 

 and a reward fund, say Rs. 200, for giving rewards to the 

 travelling agents for any important discovery made by them 

 in order to stimulate them to action. It is only by tempting 

 them by the lure of a reward that they can be made to work 

 so as not to leave anything unexplored, and this is the reason 

 for their stipends being kept rather low in the present Scheme. 



Under the searching department fall the pay of the copyist, 

 Rs, 180, and the cost of writing paper for him and the two 

 travelling agents, which may be calculated at Rs. 3 a month, 

 i.e., Rs. 3t3 a year. 



The following is a prospectus of the figures covering the 

 charges in this department :— -d a s p 



Stipend of the first travelling agent . . 300 



His travelling allowances for 365 days . . 91 4 

 His travelling expenses in 365 days . . 180 

 Travelling allowances of the second travel- 68 4 



ing agent for 182 days. 

 His travelling expenses in 182 days . . 126 



Mileage allowances of the editor and local 216 



superintendent for 36 days. 

 His halting allowances for 12 days . . 60 



Mileage allowances of the first assistant 27 



for 36 days. 

 His halting allowances for 1 2 days . . 6 



Travelling expenses of the editor and local 392 8 



superintendent in 72 days (including 



camel-expenses of the first assistant >. 

 Railway expenses of the first assistant in 55 8 



24 days. 



Travelling fund for visiting bardic and 500 



historical centres out of Marwar. 

 Fund for purchasing and borrowing MSS. 300 



Reward fund 



200 



Stipend of the copyist . . . . 180 



Stationery . . mm . . 36 



Total Rs. . . 2,738 8 



