1 SALT REVENUE DEPARTMENT FOR TEE QFFICIAL YEAR 1895-96.
2 p99) 1898-04. | 1894-95. | 1895-96, Meee OT eee
3 _ TOE 0 | 260005. INTERNAL BRANCH.
4 ; ‘ 1892-93! | 1893-94.
5 Mds. 3} Mads. Mads. Mas.
6 From Behar see eee 4,388,932 | 8,43,173 | 8,76,254 | 4,16,674
7 ’, North-Western Provinces and Oudh 1,62,177 | 1,283,875 | 1,835,119 | 2,54,465
8 - 5, Panjab wis 55,682 39,591 50,995 63,635
9 .9 Beugal a vee es 69 40 164, i
10 », Raéjputadna and Central India aoe 737 686 1,535 1,390
11 » Madras fs ies Pee ose ies 1,740 vue
12 3, Bombay ved aoe oo tee vee orf 813
13 » Foreign ports ase ase one tes | 1 ste
14 Total 6,57,597 | 5,06,865 | 5,65,808 | 7,386,477
15 65. An account of the refund of salt duty given to the
16 North-West Soap Company at Meerut on the salt used in the
17 manufacture of soap in 1895-96 and the three previous years
18 ‘is shown in the following statement :—
19 Salt consumed inthe manufacture of soap. Refund of duty.
20 Quantity
21 Quantity | Opening] of salt | Total /Quantity| Closing | Quantity | Amount
22 Year. of soap | balance | received | stock of | of salt } balance of of
23 produced. | of salt. into salt. | utilized | of salt. salt, duty.
24 store.
25 Mds. s, |Mds. s, |Mds, s, |Mds. s, /Mds. s.}Mds, s,| Mde. 3,| Ra a.
26 1892-93 ... [10,394 38 | 61 24] 765 6 | 826 29} 763 11} 63 18 753 5 | 1,882 13
27 1893-94... | 8,800 27 | 6318] 657 26] 721 4 | 64919] 71 25 659 2 | 1,647 10
28 1894-95 ... 110,299 10} 71 25 | 599 13 | 670 38 | 670 38 ae 645 30 | 1,614 6
29 1895-96 ... (12,858 25 770 7|770 7|770 7 vos 765 641,912 14
30 The total quantity of soap produced in 1895-96 was maunds
31 12,859, or more than in 1894-95 by maunds 2,560, and the
32 quantity of salt expended was more by 100 maunds. The per-
33 centage of salt expended on soap produced was 6°51 in 1894-95,
34 and 5°99 in 1895-96. The Assistant Commissioner, who
35 visited the works frequently during the year, reports that the
36 arrangements in the factory for the safe custody of the salt used
37 continue to be satisfactory, and that the rules for the protection
38 and use of the salt are all properly observed. The amount of duty
39 refunded last year was Rs. 1,913 against Rs. 1,614 in the year
40 before. Salt free of duty, or upon which the duty was refunded,
41 was used nowhere else, and for no other industrial purpose in
42 the Upper Provinces during the year, but from the 1st of April
43 1896 the firm of Messrs Schroeder, Smidt and Company of
44 Cawnpore ard .«Dinapur, hide merchants, are being allowed a
45 refund on the salt used in their factories in salting skins and
46 hides for export’to Europe.
47 66. The following statement, which is inserted at the
48 request of the Government of Bengal, shows the quantity of
49 salt excised by the Northern India Salt Department and sent by
50 railway into the Lower Provinces during the past three years :—
51 Into Into Into
52 Caleutta.| Bengal. | Bebar. aorsl,
53 Mds. Mads, Mads. Mds.
54 . 1898-94 1,216 1 3,333 4,580
55 From worth Western Provinces and 1 1894.95 150 416 2,114 2,680
56 ‘ 1895-96 2,193 73 8,487 5,753
57 uf 1893-94 704 on 97,296 98,000
58 » Panjéb ni one 1804-95 387} a. 68,433 68,820
59 , 1895-96 496 see 78,574 79,070
60 : 1843.94 186 ‘ss ass 186
61 » Réjputéna ory 3 1894.95 eee ove 157 157
62 { 1895-96 | ... he Ses aes
63 : ( 1893-94] ss. 2,663 10 2,673
64 ‘y Central Provinces ase 1894-95 saa 5,002 _ 5,002
65 : 1895-96 one 8,156 oes 8,156
66 ° 1893.94, os oka 8 8
67 ) Bombay Port... oe {1894-95 waa a sea Ses
68 L 1895-96 “ae pas 1,426 1,426
69 1893-94 2,106 2,664 1,00,647 1,05,417
70 Total ; 1894-95 537 5,418 70,704 76,659
71 1895-96 2,689 3,229 83,487 89,405
72 ( 51 )
73 Issue of duty free salt to
74 North-West Soap Com-
75 pany.
76 Salt taxed by the Northern
77 India Salt Revenue De-
78 partment imported into
79 the Lower Provinces of
80 Bengal by railway.