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JIUTTRA. 51 with i Deputy Magistrate, 6 tahsildórs, and 8 special Magistrates-all natives. Muttra is comprised in the jurisdiction of the civil and sessions judge of Agra; and the sub-judge of the same city also exercises civil powers within the District. At Muttra itself is a munsif's or civil court of original jurisdiction. The total amount of revenue, imperial, local, and municipal, raised in the District in 1876 amounted to £237, 178; the land-tax contributing £138,354. In 1883-84, the total imperial revenue of Muttra District (excluding local and municipal funds) amounted to £191,735, the chief items being as follows :- Land revenue, £141,438; stamps, £8226; excise, 1989; provincial rates, £20,327 ; assessed taxes, £4479 ; registration, £1307; and irrigation and navigation, £3784. The District is sub-divided into 6 tahsils, containing in 1883-84 an aggregate of 1438 estates, paying an average land revenue of £112 each. The total strength of the regular and municipal police force was 854 men, maintained at a cost of £8153, of which £5495 was paid from provincial and £2658 from other sources; being i policeman to every 1°7 square mile and every 787 of the population, the cost averaging £5, 125. 6d. per square mile, or 2 d. per head of the population. The istrict jail at Muttra contained in 1883 a daily average of 196 prisoners, of whom 18.4 were males and 12 females. The District contains 15 imperial and 6 local post-offices, together with 5 telegraph stations belonging to the different railway companies. Education was carried on in 1880-81 by 2 10 Government, municipal, and unaided missionary and indigenous schools, with an aggregate of 6486 pupils, being i school to every 7 square miles of area, and 9:6 pupils to every thousand of the population. The zilá or high school in Muttra city was attended by 244 pupils in 1880-81. Middle-class Anglo-vernacular schools exist at Aring, Farah, Brindában, Kosi, Chhata, Mahában, and Sádábad. The Government schools, which in 1880-81 numbered 136 with 5162 pupils, had increased to 155 with 5602 pupils in 1883–84. No statistics of private unaided schools are available for the latter year. The three niunicipal towns of Muttra. Brindában. and Kosi had an aggregate revenue in 1883–84 of £8571, of which £7199 was derived from octroi ; average incidence of taxation, is. 7}d. per head of the population (87,714) within municipal limits. Medical Aspects.—The climate of Muttra is dry and hot, owing to the proximity of the sandy deserts on the west. Great extremes of temperature occur, the cold of winter being comparatively excessive, while hot winds blow from the west with great violence during April, May, and June. The average rainfall for a period of thirty years ending 1881 amounted to 2545 inches; the maximum during this period being 37 inches in 1867, and the minimum, 11•3 inches in 1860 (the year of famine). No thermometrical returns are available. On the whole, the