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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
