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NOAKHALI. 351 gross expenditure to £6979. By 1950-51 the revenue had risen to £115,408, and the expenditure to £18,321 ; so that in twenty-six years both the revenue and expenditure had more than doubled. In 1970-71 the revenue amounted to £96,955, and the expenditure to £23,096. In 1883-84 the six main items of revenue aggregated £101,852, made up as follows:-Land revenue, £62,554; excise, £1580; stamps, £26,838; registration, £3137; road cess, £7389; and municipal taxes, £354. Cost of officials and police, £16,777. The land revenue renained almost stationary during the thirty-five years preceding 1884. In 1842–43 it amounted to £53,177 ; in 1850-51 to £64,857; in 1870–71 to £55,024; and in 1883–84 to £62,554. For police purposes, the District is divided into thiinds. In 1883-84 the regular police force numbered 288 men of all ranks, besides a municipal or town police of 15 men, maintained at a total cost of £6140. There was also a rural police or village watch of 2013 men, maintained by the villagers, and costing in money or lands an estimated sum of £,7649. The total machinery, therefore, for the protection of person and property consisted of 2316 officers and men, giving i policeman to every 0 71 of a square mile of the area or to every 355 of the population. The estimated total cost was £13,789, equal to an average of £S, Ss. per square mile of area, or 4d. per head of the population. There is one jail in the District, at Sudliárám, and a subordinate prison at the head-quarters of the Phení Sub-division; average prison population in 1883-84, 113, of whom only I was a female. In 1956-57, and still in 1960–61, there was only i Government school in the District, the number of pupils in the former year being 69, and in the latter 71. In 1870-71 the number of Government and aided schools was 26, attended by 596 pupils. Since 1872, when Sir George Campbell introduced his educational reforms, there lias been a great increase in the number of schools aided and inspected by Government. In 1873 the number of such schools was 135, with 3824 pupils. By 1881-82 the number of inspected schools had increased to 1509, and the pupils to 32,855. The schools were classified as follows:-1 High School, with 329 pupils; 8 middle English schools, with 514 pupils; 15 middle vernacular boys' schools, with 687 pupils; i middle vernacular girls' school, with 30 pupils ; 11 upper primary schools, with 466 pupils ; 1226 lower primary boys' schools, with 26,974 pupils ; 60 lower primary girls' schools, with 460 pupils ; 40 páthshálas (indigenous Hindu schools), with 572 pupils; and 147 maktabs (Muhammadan indigenous schools), with 2823 pupils. Of the total of 32,855 pupils, 357 were girls either attending female schools or mixed schools with boys. Further progress has since been made, and in 1883-84 the boys' primary schools