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 BAH There can be no

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by the department would have been considerably more than this if the

doulat but that the revenue collected

Contract system.

ruinous system of giving contracts for forest produce, to long after it was found to have almost impossible at the auctions to prevent combinations, effected, completely defeat the efforts of Government to secure

had not been adopted and adhered

&c.,

failed.

which,

It is

when

fair bids.

The general

post office has two

main

stations

in the district,

viz.,

at

Bahraich and Nanpara, and an imperial post runs ffl ce. T mpena °^ every day to and from these post offices and to Lucklines now vid Bahramghat, to Gonda and Fyzabad via Pidgpur, and to Sitapur vid Chahlarighat. -1

The scheme

was drawn up by the settlement and these are now in full working order, the Eural post offices. ^^^^^ ^^^^^ defrayed from the dak cess, which amounts in this district, as re-defined, to Rs. 2,773-8-4, and from the Government subsidy amounting to Rs. 576. Fifteen post offices have been opened, situated for the most part on the district lines of road, and at such distances apart as to secure for each office a circle area of not more than 5 miles in All police stations were selected as centres of circles. This course radius. was followed with a regard to administrative convenience, and also to give the district officer an opportunity of supervision through his thanadar. Since however the scheme has been started, the direction of these rural offices has been taken by Government out of the hands of the local officials, and made over to the imperial postal department. for the rural post offices officer,

The Weightsand measures.

table of weights in use prior to

4 jau or barley corns 8 ratti .. 12 masha 5 tola 20 tola

80 tola

2

sera

1 ratti.

...

= = =

2 panseri 40 sers

annexation

^^^ ^^ foUoWS :—

4 chhatak

mdsha.

1

tola.

1

olihatak.

1 pao.

16 „ 160 tola

=

1

1 ser. 1 panseri, kachoha. 1 dhara.

i sers

1

maund,

the seed of a jungle creeper, white, hard, and dry. It is The slightly heavier than the ghunghchi, also a seed of a ,,. „, & '-,,, j -,, ?i i The ratti and ghunghi "u i Creeper, bright red with a black spot, which is used in difference cM weight. Lucknow as the standard weight, and consequently the Bahraich weights all through the table were proportionately heavier than those in use in that city. ratti is ,

.

,,

j.

•

•

•

m •

The difference amounts to one in twelve, twelve Lucknow m^shas being only equal to eleven Bahraich mashas.

The English Government between

raich tola.

of 40 sers

tola falls short of the Bahraich tola by 12 1^ mashas in other words, the former is one;

latter. Thus the Government ser of 80 tolas (Government) contains only jq ^o^^s Bahraich weight, and the Government maund (Government) is equivalent to 35 Bahraich Nawabi sers.

EngUsh Qovernment tola and the Bahthe

^^^^^^ OT

eighth less in weight than the