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Commerce and Trade Trade is carried on at bi-weekly markets and At the marts of Nawabganj and Tikaitnagar the traffic is mainly in grain, treacle, molasses, English and country made cloth, and vessels of iron and brass in grain and cloth at Saadatganj, Tilokpur, Udhauii, and Zaidpur grain and cotton at Chamierganj grain and cattle at Siddhaur. The imports are piece-goods from Cawnpur, salt from Agra and Delhi, coarse red cloth [kharua) and coloured stuffs from Kalpi turmeric, pepper, and spices from Gorakhpur and Nepal. The main exports are wheat, sugar, and countrymade cloth. There is an extensive through traffic by road, rail, and river. logs from the forests of Oudh and Nepal are floated down the Gandak to Bahramghat, to be carted thence to Lucknow and Cawnpur. Rice, maize, and oil-seeds come over the Gogra from Bahraich, and are shipped from Puraina Ghat to Lower Bengal in country boats, or despatched by road to Cawnpur. Trade is growing, and the income from tolls at the boat bridge at Bahramghdt is steadily increasing. The manufactures of the District are plain and coloured cloth of coarse quality from home-spun and imported yarn the extraction of sugar and treacle from the cane ; brass and iron vessels for domestic use; and the rude implem.ents, ornaments, and utensils of the farm and hut. The main streams of land traffic flow along 71 miles of railway, opened in 1882, and an equal length of metalled road, from Bahramghat and Faizabad to Nawdbganj, and thence to Lucknow and Cawnpur. The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway has eleven of its stations in the District, and from these, in 1873, were received and despatched 337,081 The total length of roads in the passengers and 9921 tons of goods. District in 1882-83 was 495 miles, connecting all the leading towns and markets of the District. Water communication is afforded by 161 .

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Administration

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i860, the land tax was ^^83,599; during the

was raised to ^122,521. In 1869-70, it up to ^157,521 ; in 1880-81 it amounted to .;^i67,7i9; and in 1882-83 .;£^i66,ii6. The total imperial revenue is higher than in any other District in Oudh; it amounted in 1872 to ^^^171, 425; in 1880-81 to 182,920 ; and in 1882-83 The charges for civil administration ^£^185, 621. in the latter year were £12, 6’]’], being, with the exception of Bahraich, the lowest of any of the Oudh Districts. The District is administered under the non-regulation system by a Deputy - Commissioner, 2 Assistant Commissioners and 3 extra-Assistant Commissioners, and 4 tahsUddrs. Each of these officers, in addition to executive duties, presides as magistrate and judge over a criminal, civil, and rent-suit court. The judicial machinery is strengthened by regular settlement (1865-1867)

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