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 RAE 257 Markets are held every day in the principal town-Bareli, Capperganj, Jabánabad, Darwaza Qila alias Purána bazar. The names and days on which the other bazars are held are tabulated thus :- Names of markets. Days on which beld, 900 240 . FO > .. PPC 10 . 40 500 .. .40 144 FE 20 16 1. Sahdeoganj Sarayyan in village Saráe Dánu Shamsberganj in village Khatwara Bishnáthganj in village Rabwe Gauriganj in Hardáspur Gurbakhshganj in Ulush Aseha Rihi Bela Jå uki Hugengarj in Kasur Hanománganj in Bela Bhela Rámganj in Indobar Ropámau Bela Khar Ganeshganj in Bibárpur Munshiganj in Garhi Mitsuli . 09 WY 00 Sunday and Wednesday, Ditro Ditto. Sunday and Thursday Saturday and Tuesday. Ditto. Ditto, Ditto. Monday and Friday. Sunday and Wedneadey. Ditto. Ditto. Tuesday and Friday. Saturday and Wednesday. Tuesday aud Friday, Sunday and Thuraday. . . 14 WS 30 .. 100 10 -10 be 307 16 >> 100 ty PR 000 OP 1. 400 fa Of all these markets that of Capperganj and of Munshiganj only need mention. Capperganj was built by Mr. W. C. Capper, C.S., while he was the Deputy Commissioner of this place. The market is four-sided and stands on the roadside, and contains about a hundred masonry built shops, Almost every kind of commodity is bought there; English articles are for the most part imported from Cawnpore and Fatehpur vid the Ganges near the Dalmau Ghát. Metal plates, goblets, and drinking cups are brought in from Hasanpur Bandhua, a place famous for them in district Sultan- pur, country cloth from Jáis, vegetables and fruit from Lucknow. The second Munshiganj, or more properly Díwánganj, was built by Díwán Chandi Saháe, brother to Munshi Gur Saháe, Káyath, noblemen of Lucknow. These two brothers were the assistants to the prime minister, Nawab Ali Naqi Khan of Oudh, The ganj stands on the metalled road from Bareli to Dalmau about two miles south of the former, Hanomanganj and Husenganj are the principal cattle markets; at the latter fifty or sixty head are sold generally every market day; the price of a good pair is Rs. 100. The cattle merchants give long credit; if the purchaser does not meet his engagement at the appointed date, the seller and all his brother dealers assemble and demand to be fed by the defaulter till he makes good the price. There are two fairs held in the town of Bareli, each attended by ten or twelve thousand people. One termed the Ramlila about the middle of October, the other in the Muharram. A fair is held on the Queen's birth- day at the village Chaulámau near the tank of Diwán Rewti Rám. Saltpetre and salt were formerly manufactured in above 50 villages, and the annual outturn was 6,000 maunds of salt and 1,300 saltpetre; this has been stopped since annexation. The principal landholders of this district 33