BANA'U.
96
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,
- ^34,6o3, and the gross revenue at
to
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
