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 BAREILLY.

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of cloth, metal pots, and pedlar’s wares levy

small tax from each

a

at the

shopkeeper,

same

pedlar,

Landlords

time.

grain seller

or

portance, and very

little

Railway passes through the south-western portion of the District distance of

4775

with

for a

miles, with stations at P'atehganj, Faridpur, Bareilly,

Basharatganj, and Aonla. Bareilly

at

no manufactures of more than local imexternal trade. The Oudh and Rohilkhand

Bareilly has

these bazars.

I’atehgarh,

Good

bridged and metalled roads connect

Moradabad,

and

Budaun,

metalled road also runs to the foot of the

for

hills

Pilibhi't.

Naini Tal.

A The

northern part of the District is badly supplied with communications, owing to the scarcity of road metal, and the number of Himalayan torrents which cut their way through the soft soil. Total length of roads, 525 miles.

Administrafioa

.

— On

the cession of Rohilkhand to the British in

—

Province was

divided into two Districts Bareilly and Moradabad. In 1813, Shahjahanpur was made a distinct District; and in 1821 Budaun was similarly separated. In 1817, Bijnor was divided from Moradabad, and in 1858 the Tarai from Bareilly. Subsequent!)', in 1880-81, the area of Bareilly was further reduced by the In this way the separation from it of the new District of Pilibhit. seven Districts now constituting the Rohilkhand Division were formed. In 1861, the Nawab of Rampur received a grant of 133 villages as a 180T,

the

reward

for his services

constituted, magistrates, fiscal,

and

is

during the Mutiny.

The

District, as at present

administered by a magistrate-collector,

and

2

2 joint

or assistant-

deputy-magistrates, besides the ordinary

constabulary

establishments.

Total

1881-82, ^^134,062, equal to an average of population of 1,030,936.

2s.

District 7d. per

medical, revenue,

head on a

In 1881, the regular police force amounted to 1006 officers and These figures show one men, maintained at a cost of ^11,364. policeman to every i'6o square miles of area and every 1024 of the cost of maintenance was at the yate of ^^6, is. the population mile, or 2|d. per head of the population. Bareilly square per contains three places of confinement, the Central and the DisThe former had in 1881 a daily average trict jails, and a lock-up. Criminals from all Districts in the Rohilkhand of 1956 prisoners. The District jail conDivision undergo confinement in this prison. tained in the same year a daily average of 896 prisoners, of whom 787 were males and 109 females. The average daily prison population in the Sub-divisional lock-up numbered 41^ There are 21 post-offices in

the District, and the telegraph

Oudh and Rohilkhand consisted of 12 gate roll of

1

4620

Railway.

is

in

operation along the line of the

In 1881, the educational machinery

schools under Government inspection, with an aggrepupils, giving

an average area of i3'34 square miles