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Fyzabad consists of the commissioner or sessions judge, a deputy commissioner, two European assistants and three native extra assistants, a cantonment magistrate, and four tahsildars. Besides this staff, there is a hody of settlement officials, a settlement officer, his assistant, two extra assistants but this department may be excluded from consideration, as it is only temporary. There are eleven magistrates, all of whom have civil and revenue powers, besides three honorary magistrates. This staff is much larger than usual in Oudh but in population the district ranks fourth, and in density second. The total cost of officials and police of all kinds was Es. 2,26,106* in 1872. The police numbered 766, of whom 401 were on regular police duty the rest performed g'uasi-military There are four sub-divisions or tahsils, T^nda, Akbarpur, functions. Eikapur, Fyzabad. Their ai-eas are given in the general table of the judicial staff in

Administration.

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Statement showing the population of the thdnas in the district of Fyzabad.

Name

of

Thina.

Popnlation,

139,695 111,979 130,429 117,207 116,228 119,406 104,444 85,875 97,507

Fyzabad Bonahi Bikapur Milkipur

Akbarpur

Tan da Jalalpur

Ramtiagar

Mava Maharajganj Total

1,022,770

It is the heaviest criminal district in Oudh, particularly in cattle Crime and criminal This is ascribed to the stealing and poisoning. ''^^^^^poverty of the people, the prevalence of cattle Provinces border police diseases and the proximity of the North-West change of jurisdiction. inquiries are always more or less obstructed by a Nineteen persons were convicted of cattle poisoning in 1872 ; the offenders simply to obtain the hides arsenic, -were all Chamars the motive was drug employed. Pargana Birhar is the was glir, with made into a ball July, when Crime reaches the maximum for cattle-lifting.

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nothing worthy of note in the crime. '

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famous grain

is scarcest.

A table is annexed exhibiting the amount and nature of crime. Eeyeiiue Eeport.