The State firm, “ Tears and Laughter,” which has been subsidised by the State for a few years previous, has been just lately reorganized right into a Nationwide Theatre. This latter receives an annual subscription of 100,000 francs. The brand new State Theatre of Sofia, which was constructed after the plans of the Austrian architect Kelmer, was inaugurated in January 1907. The theatre is below the administration of a director and an administrator, each of whom are appointed by the Ministry of Public Instruction.
A number of provincial theatres and dramatic firms are additionally subsidised by the State. The whole quantity of those subventions throughout the yr 1904 was 15,000 francs.
EDUCATIONAL BUDGET
The upkeep of the College and of the secondary colleges relying on the Ministry of Public Instruction entails an expenditure of four,201,000 francs, distributed as follows:
Franca.
- College 450,000
- Faculty of Tremendous Arts 91,000
- Excessive colleges, coaching faculties, class colleges 2,780,000
- Cost of 1 half of the salaries of academics within the communal colleges 880,000
The Ministry additionally spends the next sums for the mental growth of the nation : Charges paid to organisers of night courses and Franca.
- Bills for the upkeeping of college gardens 10,000
- Lectures for academics 10,000
- Subventions to 2 orphanages 32,000
- Mahommedan colleges 75,000
- Grants to boarding colleges and personal colleges 15,000
- Standard lectures, conferences, scientific, philanthropically, and inventive societies, and related establishments 10,000
- Grants for archaeological researches three,000
- To the Literary Society, and for its publication, Annual Journal of Nationwide Science and Literature (60 printed sheets) 20,000
- Funds for building and restore of college buildings 20,000
- Upkeep of a sanatorium and consumptive academics 5,000
- To the Scholar’s Circle of Sofia 5,000
- Literary and inventive enterprises, scientific researches 46,000
Complete four,201,000
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