1 SALT REVENUE DEPARTMENT FOR TUE OFFICIAL veaR 1894-95.
2 one month, of a Superintendent who was on deputation in the REVIEW BY SECTIONS,
3 Central Office in 1893-94; (4) increase of Rs. 2,681, due to the gayrpay orFIcr
4 rate of exchange compensation allowance, drawn by the Com- Se
5 missioner and Deputy Commissioner, being higher in the past
6 than in the previous year. In céntingent charges there is a
7 net decrease of Rs. 1,144, which is explained as follows :—Jn-
8 creases,—(1) Rs. 26 in travelling allowance: (2) Rs. 271 in
9 repairs of tents ; most of the tents are now old, having been in
10 use for 13 years and upwards, and consequently their repairs
11 are expensive: (3) Rs. 4 in charges for country stationery.
12 Decreases,—(1) Rs. 178 in the item of conveyance of tents and
13 records, due to the tours being shorter than in the previous
14 year: (2) Rs. 143 in the item of house rent, owing to the
15 persent Personal Assistant receiving no allowance of this
16 kind: (3) Rs. 165 in the item of service postage: and (4)
17 Rs. 506 in the item of telegram charges, the result of the
18 price of Sambhar salt having been twice changed in 1893-94:
19 (5) Rs. 287 in the clothing grant, owing to savings: and (6)
20 Rs. 166 in the item of miscellaneous, owing chiefly to the
21 expenditure for carriage of printed forms being less in 1894-95
22 than in 1893-94.
23 12. The following statement shows the gross receipts, the pywyaB MINES.
24 charges, fixed and contingent, including the cost of the Indus oe sce
25 reventive line, and the net revenue of the Punjab Mines a de ae haa
26 ivision for the past and three preceding years: —
27 eee
28 And cont ingent charges
29 explained.
30 Gross receipts. Charges.
31 Percentage
32 Year. Githiae e Rk of charges
33 . Sale Miscel- i Excava- : revenue. lon receipts,
34 Salt-duty. : Total. | Fixed. : contin- | Total.
35 : price. | laneous. tion. gencies.
36 Rs Rs Bs. Rs. Rs, Rs Rs Rs Rs Rs
37 1891-92 vee | 49,46,246 | 92,742 | 67,279 | 50,96,267 |1,57,158 | 59,215 | 82,814 |2,99,187 | 47,97,080 5°87
38 1892-93 .. | 62,66,102 | 98,739 | 61,457 | 54,26,298 |1,60,042 | 62,859 82,980 $,05,883 { §1,20,417 563
39 s
40 1893-94 v» | 51,81,550 | 97,243 } 59,748 | 58,88,541 |1,69,288 | 62,717 | 86,919 '8,18,874 | 50,19,667 5:97
41 1894-95 as | 46,038,521 | 86,316 54,091 47,438,928 |1,66,550 | 72,551 | 93,368 38,32,469 44,11,459 701
42 The gross receipts of the division are less than those for Decrease in gross receipts
43 1893-94 by Rs, 5,94,613. To make up this amount, excise duty — °Plained.
44 is responsible for Rs. 5,78,029, the quantity of salt sold in 1893-94
45 being maunds 20,72,620 and in 1894-95 maunds 18,41,408.
46 An explanation of this Jarge falling off will be attempted
47 further on. The falling off in sale price amounts to Rs. 10,927,
48 and is due to the decrease in the quantity of salt sold,
49 no alteration having occurred in the price charged to purchas-
50 ers, which continues to be nine pies per maund as in former
51 years. As the great bulk of the rock salt sold in the Punjab
52 Mines Division is now’ despatched to purchasers by what is
53 known as the through-traffic system, the general falling off in
54 the trade of the division has also unfavorably affected the mis-
55 cellaneous receipts, which are chiefly composed of the item of
56 6 pies per maund charged for preparing and despatching
57 through-traffic consignments. These receipts therefore fell off
58 from Rs. 59,748 to Rs. 54,091 in the year just ended, and the
59 falling off would have been larger but for the sum:of Rs. 1,779,
60 which accrued from fines imposed upon contractors for careless
61 preliminary weighments, and from the sale proceeds of certain
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