1 SALT REVENUE DEPARTMENT FOk THE OFFICIAL YEAR 1893-94,
2 Three English clerks were “transferred from the Internal
3 Branch, vzz., one each to the Punjab Mines, Sambhar and Pach-
4 badra Assistant Commissioners’ Offices to mect the préss of work
5 caused by the increase of throwgh-traffic business in those offices ;
6 one Superintendent, whose appointment was supernumerary
7 in the Pachbadra Div ision, was absorbed ; and éne supernumerary
8 Vernacular clerk’s appointment in the Infernal Branch was also
9 absorbed, the net result being a decrease of one officer and ane
10 subordinate in the strength of the Department.
11 To complete the reductions of establishment recommended
12 by the Finance Committee, one English clerk remains to be
13 absorbed, and the post of Personal Assistant to the Commission-
14 er, now held by Mr. Siddons, will be held in future, as soon as.
15 ‘Mr. Siddons can be provided for, by a Superintendent. But as,
16 until then, there is one Superintendent less and one Assistant
17 Commissioner more than the schedule, there is numerically
18 only one appointment, that of English clerk, more now than the
19 fixed sanctioned strength of the Department.
20 4, The total quantity of salt issued by the Northern India
21 Salt Department during the year was maunds 74,72,294 as com-
22 pared with maunds 88,97,26l in 1892-93, being a decrease of
23 matunds 14,24,967. As compared with 1891-92 and 1890-91, the
24 decreases amount to maunds 8,53,600 and maunds 5,09,366 res-
25 pectively. A comparative detail of the issues of the past. two
26 years is subjoined :—
27 1893-94, | Increase. | Decrease.
28 1892-93, |
29 Mads, | Mads. Mds.
30 Full duty paid we | 79,109,813 | 65,0i,985 14,17,348
31 Issued to Native States fre 8 eof duty .. 2, 12,001 2,08, 408 a 8,053
32 Issued free of price and duty Ses 17,410 37,610 20,200 ash
33 Kohat salt (paying duty ata special 6,23, 981 5,90,285 3 33,096
34 rate).
35 Mandi salt (ditto ditto) __ 134, 496 1, 34,026 026 9,530
36 Total 88,097,261 74,72, 294 29,730 14 54,097
37 Out of the quantity (maunds 65,01,965) of full duty paid
38 salt issued ue the year, matinds 27,90,141 were Sambhar
39 salt; maunds 20,72,620 were runjab Mines rock salt; maunds
40 66468 were isstted at the Sultaupur Salt Works; the issues
41 of Didwana salt were maunds 4,57,491, and of Pachbadra salt
42 maunds 10,549,268. Finally, maunds 55,977 ef saltpeire salt
43 were issucd. The issues of Sambhar salt fell off as compared
44 with those of 1892-93 by maunds 23,14,460, or 45°34 per cent.
45 Vunjib Mines rock salt issues experienced a slight falling
46 off of maunds 33,821; and the issues of Sultinpuri salt fell
47 off by nearly half, though the high price of Sambhar might
48 have been expected. to stimulate the | Sultanpuri salt trade. The
49 actual decline was from maunds 1,24,181 in 1892-93 to maunds
50 65,468 in 1893-04. The issues of Didwana and Pachbadra
51 were greatly increased by the high price and the scarcity of
52 Sambhar salt, and were respectively maunds 2,79,068 and
53 7,30,005 more than in 1892-93. In Falodi salt there were no
54 full ‘duty paid transactions. The issue of saltpetre salt from
55 yefineiies decreased by maunds 17,504. The issues of Mandi
56 salt were larger by maunds 9,530 and of Kohat salt smaller hy
57 maunds 39 G96 than in 1892- 93. The causes of each of these
58 variations, so far as they are known, will be explained later
59 ( 3)
60 GENERAL REVIEW.
61 Appointments remaining
62 to be absorbed.
63 Issues of salt,