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BASIM. good reason shown.

187

During the rule of the Peshwa, extravagant

life-

Brahmans and Pandits, many of Avhom contrived get them transmitted to heirs. Rent rates the average rate for

made

grants were

to

—

to

land suited for cotton IS.

opium,



from were

IS.

—

6d

7s.



is is.

rice, 4s.

to 2s. per



day



per acre; for wheat land,

gram,

is.

The wage

6d.

is.

3d.

for jodr,



of skilled labour

is

Prices in 1880-81

of unskilled labour, 6d.

cotton, 2| sers per rupee, or 2J lbs. for a shilling ; gram, 36 sers ; jodr, 51 sers common rice, ii sers ; oil-seeds, 17 sers and tobacco, 2% sers. A plough bullock costs for clean

wheat, 35 sers a sheep,

The

4s.

1880-81 com-

agricultural stock of the District in

prised 280,098 cows and bullocks, 51,995 buffaloes, 195 horses, 7725 ponies, 1655 donkeys, 49,580 sheep and goats, 125 pigs, 140 camels,

6262

carts,

and 28,332 ploughs.

Manufactures and Trade.

— The

are coarse cotton cloth, blankets,

chief manufactures of the District

and a

little

exports are cotton and wheat, which go to

The

paper.

Bombay



principal

gums, dyes, and

produce are sent to Hingoli. There are four outposts in the which trade registration is undertaken, viz. at Rajgaon, Risod, Mulama, and Umarkhed these outposts are maintained at an annual cost of The value of imports registered in 1880-81, through these posts, amounted to ;!^ii5,658 ; exports, to ^54,280. forest

District at



The

chief trading

fairs are

towns are Basim and Umarkhed

the



principal

held at Risod, Sirpur, Malegaon, Pusad, Umarkhed, Talegaon,

and Negardas.

There

are

the

in

District

miles

293

of

made

road.

—

The total area assessed in 1881 was 1,263,034 which 1,150,991 were under cultivation, 112,943 cultivable, 180,628 grazing land, and 446,811 uncultivable waste. Sixty-three villages held under the Waste Land Rules, with an area of 147,717 acres, yield a revenue of ^875. The District is administered by a Deputy-Commissioner, with whom Administration.

acres, of

are associated assistants, Sub-divisions.

There

British rule.

transferred

to

European and Native.

Dakditi and robbery have is

one small receiving

the central jail at Akola



There are

much

jail,

3

decreased

revenue under

from which persons are

daily average of inmates,

expenditure per head of average strength, ;^8, 17s. Of the total number of convicts, 67 were Hindus, 24 Muhammadans. The 74‘i7



Muhammadans, who

are only as

i

to 18 of the

Hindu

population, are

The sanctioned strength of police in 4 of the convicts. 1880-81 was 67 officers and 324 men, giving an average of i policeman to every 7 '5 square miles of area. There were in 1880-81, 86 as

I

to

Government and aided

schools, with 2814 pupils



and a

central

depot, with two branches, one at Pusad, the other at Mangrul.

only municipality

is

Basim town



book

The

population within municipal limits.