1 SALT REVENUE DEPARTMENT FOR THE OFFICIAL YEAR 1894-95,
2 8. During the year 1893-94, as mentioned in the annual report
3 for. that year, it was found to be not necessary to send so many
4 deputations as usual into the Native States to report upon the due
5 observance of the.salt agreements. But in 1894-95 the practice
6 was fully resumed and officers have been sent into Jeypur,
7 including Shekhawati, Jodhpur, Udeypur, Ulwar, Kishengarh,
8 Bikanir, Jeysalmir, Bhartpur, Bahawalpur, Dholpur, Bundi,
9 Tonk, Kotah, and Shahpura, wherever in fact in any of the
10 Native States there are salt tracts or salt Jakes or the remains
11 of former salt works or where facilities exist for the manufacture
12 of earth salt or its separation from saltpetre and sulphate of soda.
13 On the whole, the manufacture of illicit or earth salt has again
14 been found to be effectually suppressed, but in Jeypur, Bhart-
15 pur, Ulwar and Shahpura improvement is desirable, and the
16 Political Officers have been furnished with extracts from the
17 reports of the deputation officers and requested to address
18 their Darbars suitably. In Udeypur the improvement which
19 was observed last year is apparent again this year, The
20 examination of the authorized kharee or inferior earth salt
21 works in Jodhpur, and of the edible salt works at Lunkaran sur
22 in Bikanir and Kanod in Jeysalmir, and also of the “khar”
23 tracts and soda factories in Jeypur, and of the salt jhils and
24 marshes of Kuchor-Rewasa, Cargot and Cuchawan was satis-
25 factory. The salt tracts in Bahawalpur near the Sindh frontier
26 are reported to have been found quite untouched. Some traces
27 of illicit salf manufacture, which are being enquired into, were
28 found in the Rajhan sub-division of the Dehra Ghdzi Khan
29 district, The thanks of this department are due to the Poli-
30 tical Officers in Rdjputdéna and Central India for their kind-
31 ness and courtesy in connection with these annual deputations,
32 tg on all other occasions in which their assistance is solicit-
33 ed. ;
34 9. The following statement shows for the past four years
35 the necessary details of the working of the system for the col-
36 ‘ Jection of Northern India Salt Revenue by the Post-office. Since
37 the Ist of October 1892 a fee of § annas per 100 rupees is
38 charged to traders for the services rendered by Post-office. It
39 is not therefore, necessary todo more:than compare the figures
40 of the past two years. As regards Punjib Mines rock salt, there °
41 is a falling off of five in the number of post-offices employed,
42 of maunds 3,987 in the quantity of salt indented for, and of
43 his. 10,621 in the revenue realized. As the total trade in rock
44 salt was less by maunds 2,31,212 than in 1893-94, the decrease
45 in the revenue collection by the Post office 1s not surprising.
46 In connection with Sambhar salt, only 27 post-offices, were
47 employed as against 34 in the preceding year, but more salt was
48 dealt with by maunds 138,787 and more revenue collected
49 through this agency by Rs. 34,519. Generally, the trade in
50 Sambhar salt was very much briskerin 1894-95 than in 1893-94,
51 the total sales being maunds 40,21,618 and maunds 27,90,141,
52 respectively, In the matter of Pachbadra salt, though
53 only five post-offices were employed as against 12 in 1893-94,
54 there was little difference in the maundage dealt with and the
55 amount of revenue realized, the decrease in quantity being
56 maunds 528, and in revenue Rs. 1,877. Taking the total trans-
57 actions of the salt trade through the agency of the Post-offices,
58 it appears that there were 45 against 64 Post offices made use
59 of, maunds 88,819 against maunds 79,547 paid for, and Rs.
60 %,43,788 against Rs. 2,21,267 realized in 1894-95 as compared
61 (7)
62 ° .
63 GENERAL REVIEW.
64 Deputation of officers to
65 inspect salt-producing
66 tracts ‘n various Native
67 Stats
68 Receipt of excise duty
69 and selling price of
70 through-trafiic salt ab
71 post-oflices,