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you. It will be the Victoria Memorial Library, and it will be kept in one of the rooms of the Victoria Town Hall here."

As the Maharajah had reigned nearly twenty years during Her late Majesty's time, he contributed twenty thousand rupees to the different Memorials to the late Queen-Empress, and distributed the amount in the following manner:—

I.— All-India Memorial Fund, Rs.5,000.

II. — The Madras Provincial Fund, Rs.5,000.

III. — Lady Curzon's Midwife Scholarship Fund, Rs. 1,000.

IV.— The Queen Victoria Memorial Beds to be endowed in the Caste and Gosha Hospital, Madras, Rs.2,000.

V. — The Victoria Memorial Library at Bobbili, Rs.2,000.

VI. - The Victoria Diamond Jubilee Town Hall at Vizagapatam, Rs.5,000.*[1]

  1. * This is an additional amount granted to this Town Hall, which he built at Vizagapatam.