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T 82 MUZAFFARPUR. crop, however, is a remunerative one, where it can be raised, the average return being £2, 16s. per bighá. Tobacco manufacture is largely carried on at Pusá. It was originally started by Government as an experiment, and afterwards made over to a European firm in Calcutta, who have established the manufacture on a successful footing. The Pusá tobacco manufactured into cakes after European and American methods bears a high reputation.-See PUSA. Means of Communication. — The District is well provided with roads, the most important being the road fron Hájípur viâ Muzaffarpur town and Sítámarhi to Sonbarsa on the frontier, which, though bearing three distinct names for its various sections, really forms one continuous line of 92 miles in length. Next in importance come the roads which connect Muzaffarpur town with Darbhangah and Motihari, and with Sáran viâ Rewághát. Altogether, il main roads (including those already mentioned) radiate from Muzaffarpur town to the limits of the District, and these roads are connected or crossed by numerous others. Muzaffarpur District is intersected by the Tirhút State Railway, and by a branch connecting Muzaffarpur town with Hájípur on the Ganges in the south of the District, opposite Patná. Another branch from Muzaffarpur town to Sítámarhi in the north of the District near the Nepál boundary has been (1885) surveyed, and estimates submitted to Government for the work. Administration. — The six main sources of District revenue in 1883–84 aggregated £172,869, of which the land revenue contributed £97,165; excise, £22,225; stamps, £33,421; registration, £2923 ; road cess, £13,055 ; and municipal taxes, £4080. Total charges of civil administration, as represented by the cost of officials and police, £25,509. In 1883–84, Muzaffarpur District contained 15,055 revenuepaying estates, owned by 75,118 separate proprietors and co-parceners; average revenue paid by each estate, £6, gs. id., or by each individual shareholder, £1, 6s. The District police force (regular and municipal) numbered 483 officers and men, maintained at a cost of £7775, besides a rural police or village watch of 4578 men, maintained by the landholders and villagers at an estimated total cost of £15,286. The total number of prisoners received in the District jail during the same year was 1045, the daily average prison population being 159. The District school, which is of the first class, contained a total of 360 pupils on the 31st March 1883. Schools of a lower class numbered 2851, with 23,556 pupils. Municipalities have been established at Muzaffarpur, Hájípur, Lalganj, Sítámarhi, and Mohnar. Total municipal income in 1883-84, £4761; the average incidence of taxation being rod. per head of the population (97,951) within municipal limits. Charitable dispensaries are stationed at Muzaffarpur, Hajipur, Sítá.