1 SALT REVENUE DEPARTMENT FOR THE OFFICIAL YEAR 1894-95,
2 The receipts amounted to Rs. 8,163-2-2, and the expendi- REVIEW BYSECTIONS,
3 ture to Rs, 18,880-6-4, the debit balance of Rs. 10,717-4-2 be- PACHBADER.A.
4 ing charged against the large profit made at Sambhar, where
5 there was an accumulated credit balance in the through-traffic
6 account at the close of 1894-95 of Rs. 95,177. At Pachbadra
7 the cost of dealing with through-traffic salt in 1894-95 amount-
8 ed to 6°94 pies per maund.
9 Stocks, manufacture and
10 issues.
11 59. The following statement gives particulars of the stock
12 balances, the salt extracted from pits, the excesses and deficits
13 found on clearance of heaps, the issues during the past two
14 years, and the closing balance at the end of 1894-95. The year
15 opened with a debit balance of maunds 64,838, that is to say,
16 more salt by that amount had been sold than there was extract-
17 ed salt available for issue outside of the pits, though there was
18 ofcourse any quantity of salt lying unextracted in the pits. The
19 quantity extracted, including excesses discovered on the clear-
20 ance of heaps, was maunds 10,44,376 (actually maunds 11,09,214,
21 but the debit balance of the foregoing year is deducted), The
22 sales and ascertained deficits in heaps on clearances, as well as
23 free issues, amounted to maunds 8,50,818 and the credit balance
24 of stock at the close of the year amounts to maunds 1,93, 558.
25 By the end of June 1895 this balance has heen considerably
26 increased. At a place like Pachbadra, where labour is scarce,
27 and even water to drink often difficult to procure, and
28 ‘during a year when a great pressure of work was put upon our
29 staff, and when moreover sickness was very rife, these results
30 are most satisfactory and creditable to the Assistant Commis-
31 sioner, Mr. Buckley, and his establishment :—
32 aa Bs Ye & Quantity sold and delivered F-|
33 e Sue free during the year, 2
34 3 Bws 20 as
35 4S wie By 48
36 wees ©
37 g ES? 3 nj ge
38 Year. @ ap 8 i Zo Total, Ss %
39 BE oy Bo ce S ee
40 o & . Ps22* . PP » °
41 Dom oa 3 Zo o m 8
42 ges [228s22 ¢ g 3° | 38
43 gam (SSS0S4 s 2 £ ic)
44 m&Q Se Cc 2) a FQ
45 eet —_— a
46 Maunds.| Maunds. Maunds.
47 11,000 | 12,15,268 | -—64,838 \
48 11,000 | 8,50,818 | 1,938,558
49 Maunds. Maunds., Maunds. | Maunds.
50 1893-94 ,.. | 3,84,852. 7,65,578 | 11,50,430 | 12,04,268
51 1894-95 ,,. | —64,838 11,09,214 | 10,44,376 | 8,39,818
52 Results of clearance of
53 The following summary shows the results of the clearance espe
54 of heaps of salt during the year. The Kharwals, or owners of
55 the salt ultimately receive payment for all the salt’ received
56 from them that passes out for sale over the scales, though on
57 estimation at the time of storage one-quarter of the price is
58 withheld until the actual outturn by weight is ascertained -—
59 mds,
60 Estimated by Superintendents ay aes ase we» =11,05,403
61 Actual outturn .,. oot ven ste sae oe = 10,43,014
62 Deficit in outturn ves os oo _ eos
63 Paid for at time of estimation, being amount estimated minus 25 percent. .. 8,84,3823
64 Balance psid for on clearance nai eas ase w. 158,691
65 Total quantity paid for a aes Pe 10,438,014
66 On the subject of extraction of salt and other kindred
67 matters the following extract from the Assistant Commissioner’s
68 annual report is reproduced:—‘In my report for 1893-94, I
69 detailed the difficulties under which manufacture was carried on
70 in that year to meet the unprecedentedly heavy demand for salt
71 at a time when the tract was flooded, the pits full of water
72 almost fresh, labour scarce and expensive, and sickness rife
73 ‘ ( 47)