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 348 LUC CHAPTER IV. ADMINISTRATIVE FEATURES. Administration -Police-Thágas-Crimes-Accidental deaths--Revenue and expenditure Education Post-office. Administration.-The local administration is in the hands of a deputy commissioner aided by one magistrate in speciol charge of the city, another of cantonments, by one or two assistant commissioners, three extra assistant commissioners, three tahsildars, and four honorary magistrates. Besides, there are a civil judge and a small cause court judge, who have no criminal or revenue powers. There are thus seventeen courts of original jurisdiction; but of these two have no civil jurisdiction, two have no criminal, and four have no revenue. The police of Lucknow is divided into three portions, first, the special city police numbering in 1873, 890, excluding guards on quasi-military duty. The area of the city strict is 36 square miles, and the population is 284,406 ; second, the cantonment police numbering 61; third, the district police numbering 505 on civil duty, and 778 in all. The entire number of police is 1,729 to an area of 966 square miles. The following table exhibits the statistics of the Lucknow district police and the population of the different thánas. Statistics of the police of the district of Lucknow in 1873. Total cost in ropees. 100 7001 to 2.731 to 9.70 1488 3364 2959 2053 306 neo 0 1.1 . end Regular 1,72,152 police. Village 88,3231 watch, Municipal 1,12,173 police. 5 132 851 be 0 PP PO Total an 2,86,657 9 232 89633204 9 1488/3364 2959 2053 306 Statement showing the population of thánas. Name of thána. Population. Malihabad 99,147 Banthra 62, 476 Lucknow 105,041 Goshainganj 69,165 Mohanlalganj 89,872 Itaunja 57,576 Total 489,277 The crime of Lucknow appears in the accompanying table. It must be remembered in making comparisons, that the boundaries of the district were altered in 1869, and its area diminished from 1,415 squarc miles to be TO BO