382 LUC will not cost more than one rupee to 1-4 per mensem. Salt, fuel, and a little ghi or oil will cost ten annas more. In consulting official rates for grains it must be remembered that very low prices are ruling nominally for harvest grains because they are wet with dew; it is not grain but water in fact which is being sold. This accounts for prices falling to 50 and 60 sers for the rupee, when in neigh- bouring markets the ascertained price is not above 302 The supply of fish in Lucknow is by no means plentiful. There are two fish markets one at Hasanganj, the other in Amínabad; from this latter the entire European quarter and much of the native portion are supplied. It will not on an average contain more than a maund and a half of fish in the morning when the sales are held. Large fish are sold at 2 annas a ser except rohu, which sometimes fetches 3 annas. Small fish are 14 annas per ser, and the smallest of all one anna. Municipality.—Lucknow has a municipality the revenue and expendi- ture of which, and the quantities of each article which pass the octroi barriers annually for consumption in the city, are shown in the following. tables : Quantities of each description of articles taxed by Octroi in Irucknow city Municipality, from 1st April, 1870, to 31st March, 1871.* Name of article. Total quantities taxed Jess amount on which refunds have been allowed. , Number: Popula- tion, Deduced aver- age consump- tion per head. B, C, Mas. 8. c. . 1 . 200 2 31 0 0 26 0 2 2 0 13 12 009 0 31 0 12 3 .. 10. 03 15 1 Wheat Grains Rice Other grains Bhúss Hill potatoes Ghi Gur, shird, and treacle Sugarcandy and qand Cattle Tallow and was .. Fuel (charcoal) ... Fuel (wond) Timber in loge sisco Rod sakbu Bállis (beams) Bamboos and canes Lac of all kinds Muak, zsfaran Betel puts Pán Spices, drugs, and gums Tobacco Oil cake of sorts ... Oil 2 查 4 0 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 18 16 16 18 17 18 39 20 91 22 790,404 D 0 184,9790 0 583,689 0 0 88",816 0 0 3,974 0 0 21,8000 0 86,604 0 0 28,068 0 0 164,741 OD 922 0 0 52,321 00 518,988 0 0 710 00 21,263 0 0 1,872 0 0 672,276 0 0 401 0 195 0 0 6,495 00 8,113 200 72,028 00 10,666 0 0 70,449 0 0 6,535 20 0 2,84,779 .. ... 0 0 0 0 0 2 076 1 82 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 14 0 1 2 0 10 3 0 1 8 09 14 0 0 16 sa. O poe A. OS APO
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