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 370 SIT 9. Sitapur to Kasta and Mitauli. This passes for 154 miles through this district, and has the following stages,-Saádatnagar 14 miles from Sitapur, and Bhatpurwa one and a half mile. The only river is the Sarayan which is bridged. The road passes on to the Khcri district. 10. Sitapur to Piháni in Hardoi. This is 26 miles long within this district; the stages are Maholi 141 miles from Sitapur, and Kulábharnagar 12. The rivers are Sarayyan, Pirai, and Kathna-all of which are bridged. 11. Bari to Mahmudabad. This is only miles long; the stages are Bhandia seven miles from Bári and Mahmudabad 12. No river. Land mecsures : local weights.—The rate of rent is always per "kachcha" or small bigha throughout this district. This is supposed to form one- third of a regulation bígha containing 3,025 square yards, in which case about four and three-quarters local bíghas go to an acre. But the measurement of this unit varies with the pleasure of the landlord, his servant the pátwari being the surveyor. All the fields have been, it is true, surveyed and mapped out by Government; elaborate maps and records of the field areas are in the runiment rooms at every tahsil; a duplicate is at the headquarters, and a triplicate in the hands of the patwári, but in all money* rented and appraisedt fields the patwári remeasures the fields at each harvest affixing the rent agreed upon. If the land is under garden crops a smaller local bigha is used; but appa- rently there is not so much variation in this respect as in the district of Bara Banki. When the crop is actually divided there is of course no necessity for measurement at all. The local weights vary in every bazar just as is related in the Bara Banki district article; the local maund being from 16 to 20 regulation sers, and the local sers one-fortieth of it.
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