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Nepal z'id Bdnsi, from Singarjot, on the Faizabdd-Basti road, to Bhdnand to Mendhawal from Basti to Domdriaganj and from Uska Bazar to the junction of the Basti-Nepal road. Total length of roads,

pur,

There are 26

568 miles. office.

The





post-offices in the District,

rivers

Ami and Kuana

Administration divided into

Khalilabad.

.

A

are bridged.

tained across the Gogra at Ajodhya

is

but no telegraph

Ferries cross the R^pti at Dom^riaganj, Bharota,

The

is

main-

g/idt.

— For the purposes of revenue

five tahs'tls, viz.

and Bansi.

bridge of boats

collection, the District

Domariaganj, Bansi, Haraia, Basti, and

land revenue yielded in 1871-72, under the revised

settlement, ;^i33,o97, being an increase during the nineteen years

preceding of ^45,230, or 5i'5 per cent. (including cesses)

amounted

In 1880-81, the land revenue

^148,330, or an average of about IS. 9|d. per head of the population. The District local funds amounted in 1875 to ;^23,8 oo. The latest Settlement of the District was commenced in 1859, and concluded in 1865. In It expires in 1889. revenue and police matters, Basti is controlled by the Commissioner of the Benares Division. The District staff consists of a Magistrate and Collector, who has generally an Assistant Magistrate and two Deputy Magistrates under him. There are also a superintendent of police, a subdeputy opium agent and his assistant, and a civil surgeon. The judge of Gorakhpur presides over the civil administration he has also criminal appellate powers. For administrative and fiscal purposes the District is divided into 5 tahsils or sub-collectorates and 8 pargands with mahals The regular police force has a total strength or estates. 8377 of 422 officers and men. It is maintained at an annual cost of ;£6^i6, to



being

equal

£2,

to

is.

per

square mile,

or

about three-farthings

per head of the population.

In 1881 there were also 2009 chauktddrs or village watchmen, paid in cash by the landholders and villagers,

and costing ;^7248- besides

goraits, really discharging the

same

duties as chaukiddrs, but maintained by rent-free allotments of land.

The

District jail at

prisoners

— 291

Basti contained in 1881 a daily average of 305

males and

averaged i’3i per cent.

14

The annual

females.

The number

jail

mortality

of Government and grant-in-aid

schools in the District in 1881 was 151, of which three were for girls, with a total daily average attendance of 4419 pupils, or one school to

every i8'63 square miles, the pupils in the day schools being only ‘52 per cent, of the male population.

These

indigenous village schools, which do not

figures are

come under

independent of

the supervision of

Department. The Census Report of 1881 returned 6723 boys and 121 girls as under instruction, besides 30,184 males and 456 females able to read and write, but not under instruction. Medical Aspects The District is on the whole an unhealthy one, for the excessive atmospheric humidity and the defective drainage combine the Education

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