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down

are sent

the river, to

find a

The average

Sukkur (Sakkar).

market

at

export of grain

Dera Ghazi Khan or

over 500,000 maintds about 18,300 tons), of which about 350,000 maunds (or about Sugar, piece-goods, silk, indigo, 12,650 tons) consist of wheat. is

(or

g/ii, oil, iron, mats, and tobacco are imported. The exports an average year are estimated at 19,555, ^^id the imports at

drugs, in

The

38, 249 in value.

local seats of

commerce

are Dhuh'pnagar,

the bazar of Edwardesabad, Isdkhel, Kalabagh, Mianwali, and Laki,

Marwat country.

In all foreign and many highway of traffic. The District is badly provided with roads. Edwardesabad lies upon the military frontier road, which connects it with Kohat and Peshawar on the one hand, and with Dera Ismail Khan and Dera Ghazi Khan upon the other. Another road, passing Isakhel and Mianwali, connects it with Shahpur, whence roads diverge to different parts. These are the only made roads of the District, and none of them are metalled. There are altogether 797 miles of unmetalled roads in the District. Communication is frequently cut off for days during the rainy season by floods, either of the Indus or of the Kurram and Gambfla. the principal village of the

home

transactions, the river forms the

Neither of the last-mentioned streams Administration

.

—The

is

navigable.

revenue derived from the

District, after the

exclusion of purely local items, amounts to about ^47,500, of which about ^42,000 is the produce of the land tax. This has been

(summarily) assessed twdce since the annexation of the District; and a third (regular) assessment was completed in 1879.

The

first

assess-

ment, effected in 1849, fixed the demand on account of land revenue at .;^36,995 ; the second, effected at different times between the years In the year and 1861, enhanced the demand to ^^40,7 18. 1875-76, the collections of land revenue, together with certain items of a fluctuating nature classed with it, amounted to ^42,385, or about

1846

IS.

i^d. (8 annas 10

per acre of land cultivated or fallow.

pies')

gross revenue for the

same year amounted

the land revenue was returned at

£ 53 A^

5-

amounts

The annual

in

of

1881-82 was

cost of the

civil

and revenue judges of all ranks in the District Deputy - Commissioner and four

at

Commissioners.

Mianwali, east of the

courts were 10 in number.

465 men

the land revenue

including a

10,

Assistant or extra-Assistant

always stationed

collection of

^2500.

to about

The number

The

^47,007. In 1881-82, to
 * ^34,6o3, and the gross revenue at

in 1881, being

i

The

One Indus.

of

the

The

police force of the District

to every 716 inhabitants.

The

latter

is

magisterial

numbered returns of

Edwardesabad, in which the 1881 was 143. In 1881, Bannu contained 27 schools attended by 1252 pupils. A Church

crime are high. daily average

There

is

number of

a small

jail

at

prisoners during