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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 22, p. 336.

3,16 .SIALKOT TOlf7N income was a lakh, chiefly derived from octroi (Rs. 80,500); and the expenditure was also a lakh, including conservancy (Rs. 13,200), education (Rs. 17,000), medical (Rs. 12,ooo), and administration (Rs. 25,900). The large military cantonment is situated about a mile and a half from the native town. The garrison, which belongs to the Rawalpindi division, consists of one battery and one ammunition column of horse artillery, one regiment of British cavalry, two regiments of Native cavalry, one battalion of Native infantry, and one company of sappers and miners. There is also a mounted infantry school. During the ten years ending 1902-3 the income and expenditure of cantonment funds averaged Rs. 37,000. Sialkot is a flourishing trade centre and dep6t for agricultural pro- duce. It has an extensive manufacture of cricket and tennis bats, hockey sticks, &c., tents, surgical instruments, and tin boxes. Boots are also made, and various cotton stuffs, chiefly twill (susi). The manufac- ture of paper is said to have been introduced four centuries ago, and under the Mughal emperors Sialkot paper was largely used at the Delhi court. The manufacture has now greatly declined, owing to the competition of mill-made paper. The town contains three flour-mills, in one of which cotton-ginning is also carried on. The number of employes in 1904 was 85. The Alliance Bank of Simla has a branch in the town. The principal educational institutions are the Sialkot Arts college and four Anglo-vernacular high schools, of which one is managed by the Educational department, two by the Scottish and American Missions, while the fourth is the Christian Training Insti- tute of the Scottish Mission. There are five middle schools for girls, one of which is attached to the convent. In the town are a civil hospital with a branch dispensary, an American Mission hospital for women and children, and a charitable dispensary maintained by a member of an old family of hahims or native physicians. Sibi District (Suet).-District of Baluchistan, lying between 27° 55' and 30 38' N. and 67° 17' and 69° 5o' E. Its total area is 11,28r square miles; but this includes the MARR1-BIIGTI country (7;129 square miles), which is only under political control, leaving 4,152 square miles of directly Administered territory. The Lahri niabat of the Kalat State in Kachhi (1,282 square miles) is also politically controlled from Sibi. The District is bounded on the, north by Loralai District; on the south by the Upper Sind Frontier Dis- trict; on the east by the Dera Ghazi Khan District of the Punjab and on the west by Kachhi; the Bolan Pass, and t?uetta-Pishin. The portion under political control occupies the' centre, east, and south of the District ; the areas under direct administration form protrusions in the north-western, north-eastern, and south-western corners.