Punjab.

Date:
1908
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Punjab. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i.ocal and municipal. Tolice and jails. I'iducation. 20 to 25 per cent., and that cultivation had increased 33 per cent., almost entirely owing to the extension of the Bari Doab Canal to the uplands of the Manjha, while the population had risen 36 per cent. The half net ‘assets,’ calculated at produce rates, amounted to 14 lakhs. The initial demand of the new settlement was lakhs. The average assessment on ‘ dry ’ land is R. 0-9-6 (maximum, 15 annas; minimum, 4 annas), and that on ‘wet’ land Rs. 6-5-0 (maximum, Rs. 12 ; minimum, 4 annas). The demand, including cesses, for 1903-4 was 12*5 lakhs. The average size of a proprietary holding is 4*4 acres. The collections of land revenue and of total revenue are shown below, in thousands of rupees :— 1880-1. 1890-1. 1900-1. 1903-4. Land revenue Total revenue 7,00 11,58 8,22 16,31 10,21 25,80 10.47 i 26,62 The District contains seven municipalities: Lahore, Kasur, IvHEM Karan, Patti, Chunian, Khudian, and Sharakpur. Outside these, local affairs are managed by the District board, whose income in 1903-4 amounted to Rs. 1,22,895, fRRinly derived from a local rate. A large portion of the income is expended on public works. The police force consists of 1,663 of all ranks, including 70 cantonment and 685 municipal police, under a Super- intendent, who usually has 2 Assistants, 2 Deputy-Superinten- dents (one in charge of Lahore city and the other in charge of the Kasur subdivision), and 10 inspectors under him. Village watchmen number 1,387, besides some 12 town watchmen in Patti and Sharakpur. There are twenty-five police stations. Lahore city contains three jails—the Central jail. District jail, and female penitentiary, all under one Superintendent. The Central jail has accommodation for 1,721 prisoners, the District jail for 578, and the female penitentiary for 364. Lahore stands eighth among the twenty-eight Punjab Districts in literacy, 4-4 per cent, of its population in 1901 being able to read and write (7*4 per cent, males and 0-7 females). The proportion is highest in the Lahore tahsil. The number of pupils under instruction was 6,279 1880-T, 14,437 in 1890-1, 19,271 in 1900-1, and 18,370 in 1903-4. In the last year the District contained 5 Arts colleges, 3 professional colleges, 28 secondary schools, 112 primary schools, 8 special public schools, and 8 advanced and 154 elementary private schools,
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