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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 16, p. 160.

.166 LEMYETHN~1 TOWN 'Lemyethna' Town.-Head-quarters of the township of the' same name in Henzada District, Lower Burma, situated in 17' 36' N. a'nd 95' 11' E., on the Bassein river, near the south-west corner of the District. Population (1901), 5,813. Its affairs are managed by a town committee. The income and expenditure of the town fund in 1903-4 amounted to Rs. io,ooo and Rs. 11,ooo respectively. The civil hospital, supported by local funds, has accommodation for 8 in-patients. Letpadan Township.-Township of Tharrawaddy District, Lower Burma, lying between 170 37' and 18° 1o' N. and. 95° 26' and 96' 1o' E., with an area of 526 square miles. The population in 19or was 56,098. The eastern portion of the township on the Pegu Yoma is hilly, the western is level and fertile. The head-quarters are at LETPADAN TOWN (population, 8,772), and there are 213 villages. The area cultivated in 1903-4 was 112 square miles, paying Rs. 2,19,000 land revenue. Letpadan Town.-Head-quarters of the township of the same name in Tharrawaddy District, Lower Burma, situated in 17' 47' N. and 95° 45' E., on the railway, 77 miles from Rangoon; and about 8 miles due north of the District head-quarters. Population (r9or), 8,772. It was constituted a municipality in 1894. The receipts and expenditure of the municipal fund to the end of igoo-r averaged Rs. 23,000- In 1903-4 the receipts and expenditure amounted to Rs. 35;ooo and Rs. 38,ooo respectively. The chief sources of. income were house and land tax (Rs.4,5oo), and tolls on markets and slaughter-houses (Rs. 20,300); and the principal items of expenditure were conservancy (Rs. 4,3oo), hospitals (Rs. 4;8oo), and roads (Rs. 5,ooo). The town contains an Anglo-vernacular school main tained by subscriptions, under the management of a local committee, and a municipal hospital. It is an important centre of the' paddy trade: The Bassein railway joins the main line from Prome to Rangoon at Letpadan station. Lewe.-South-western township of Yamethin District, Upper Burma, lying between 19° 27' and 19' 49' N. and 95° 43' and 96'' 31' E., with an area of 783 square miles. The greater part is -forest. The popu- lation has increased very rapidly from 10,328 in 1891 to 30,558 in x901, distributed in 209 villages. The increase is due to immigration from neighbouring areas, where there have been extensive crop failures. The head-quarters are at Lewe (population, 1,638), on the Yonbin chaung, 1o miles from Pyinmana; and connected with that town by a good road. In 1903-4 the area cultivated was 56 square miles, and the land revenue and thathameda amounted to Rs. 1, i 1,ooo. Likhi.--Petty State in MAHI KANTHA, Bombay. Limbda.-Petty State in KATHIAWAR, Bombay. Limbdi State.-State in the Kathiawar Political Agency, Bombay