1 REVIEW BY SECTIONS,
2 SAMBHAR.
3 The year nota favourable
4 one from a revenue
5 point of view. Causes
6 explained,
7 Gross realizations and
8 charges,
9 Differences in fixed
10 And contingent charges
11 explained.
12 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
13 The year just ended has not been a fortunate one from a
14 revenue point of view for the Sambhar Division. It opened
15 promisingly enough, and for the first seven or eight months the
16 sales were in advance of those for the preceding year ; but ulti-
17 mately the low price of salts in Calcutta induced an upward
18 trade from there into the North-Western Provinces and Oudh,
19 and the result was that the Sambhar salt trade in the eastern
20 markets of Oudh and the North-Western Provinces sustained
21 a eheck from which it did not quite revive until towards the
22 close of the year, when the price of Calcutta salt turned and
23 began to rise again, and Sambhar salt was enabled to regain its
24 supremacy in the markets of the eastern districts of the Upper
25 Provinces,
26 The gross realizations of the Sambhar Division were in
27 1895-96 Rs. 9,50,957 less than in 1894-95, to which falling off
28 excise duty contributed Rs. 7,64,610, sale price Rs. 1,68,505,
29 and miscellaneous Rs. 17,842. ‘‘ Miscellaneous” is almost entirely
30 derived from the charge of three pies per maund levied from
31 traders for filling and despatching their salt to them by Depart.
32 mental agency, and, from causes which will be explained here-
33 after, through traffic was less in demand this year than ordinary
34 salt filled and loaded ‘at the lake by the traders themselves or
35 their agents, and upon which no miscellaneous charge is levied.
36 The total charges of the division were less than in 1894-95 by
37 Rs. 27,029, and the net revenue was less by Rs. 9,23,928,
38 In fixed charges there was an increase of Rs. 7,358, which
39 works out as follows :—
40 Increases—(1) Pay of Superintendents and Assistant Super-
41 intendents Rs. 6,079, due to officers of hiyher grades being
42 employed in the division, and to annual increments falling due ;
43 (2) pay of Inspectors, Kotgushts and Jamadars Rs. 110, owing
44 to transfers and leave; (3) medical establishment Rs. 5, and
45 (4) temporary establishment Rs. 4,874, caused by the necessity of
46 employing this establishment for a longer period than in 1894-95
47 to guard the unusually extensive salt formations in the lake.
48 Decreases—(1) Pay of Assistant Commissioner Rs. 2,404,
49 owing to posting of a junior Assistant Commissioner while Mr.
50 Lyon, a senior Assistant Commissioner, was absent on leave ;
51 (2) exchange compensation allowance Ks. 122, due to fluctua-
52 tions in the rate of exchange ; (3) pay of English and Vernacular
53 . clerks Rs. 636, due to transfers and leave; (4) servants and
54 guards Rs. 553, due to ordinary transfers and leave among the
55 members of the establishment.
56 The contingent charges have been Jess by Rs. 34,382 than
57 in 1894-95, and the following details show the causes thereof :—~
58 Increases-—(1) Travelling allowance Rs. 930, owing to trans-
59 fers, and the cost of conveying five horses of Superintendents trans-
60 ferred during the year; (2, conveyance of tents and records,
61 Rs. 95, connected with the deputation of officers to Native States
62 to inspect salt tracts; (8) repairs of tents Rs. 211, owing to
63 extensive repairs required to tents used by deputation officers ;
64 (4) hot weather charges Rs. 12; (5) service postage stamps,
65 Rs. 50; (6) stationery charges Rs. 9; (7) rewards to seizers of
66 smugglers Rs. 51, due to the larger number of seizures made
67 in the year; (8) petty construction and repairs Rs. 7,188, due
68 to the rebuilding and enlarging of the Assistant Commissioner's
69 house, and the construction of new quarters for Inspectors and
70 vernacular clerks.
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