1 REVIEW BY SECTIONS.
2 PUNJAB MINES.
3 Through traffic receipts
4 and expenditure.
5 ‘Indus Preventive Line;
6 cost of maintaining.
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8 REPORT ON THE ADMINSTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
9 21. The following statement shows the through trafic
10 receipts and expenditure during the past two years:—
11 1895-96." 1896-97,
12 9
13 Rs. . Bs.
14 Reveipts ae - ve 60,495 57,672
15 Expenditure .., ae bs oy, eas 45,876 45,238
16 Profit 14,619 12,434
17 As explained in previous reports, the receipts are derived
18 from a charge of six pies per maund paid by all traders who
19 desire to have their salt cleared and consigned by the Depart-
20 ment, and the expenditure is that which is incurred in carrying
21 out this work, The receipts of 1896-97 fag] below those of the
22 previous year owing toa smaller quantity of salt having been
23 purchased. The expenditure per maund of salt cleared during
24 the past year amounted to 4°87 pies compared with 4°79 pies per
25 maund during 1895-96. The profit amounted to Rs, 12,434
26 as against Rs. 14,619 in 1895-96.
27 22. The next statement shows for the past two years
28 the cost of the Indus Preventive Line, which is maintained
29 for the purpose of confining the use of Kohat salt to the terri-
30 tories lying on the right bank of the river Indus :—
31 Fixed 7 :
32 Year. saauiikciak - Contingencies. Total.
33 Rs. Rs. Rs.
34 1895-96 cas ae om 43,561 5,200 48,761
35 1896-97 oye ae ze 41,246 4,961 46,207
36 Compared with 1895-96 there wasa decrease of Rs. 2,55-4
37 in. the total cost of the line during the past year. Im the cost
38 of fixed establishment there was a decrease of Rs. 2,315, which
39 was due, (1) tono exchange compensation allowance having been
40 paid to officers during the year; (2) to officers of lower
41 -grades having been posted to the line, and (3) to the removal
42 of some of the subordinafe establishment. Under contingencies
43 there is a small decrease of Rs. 239 owing to less expenditure
44 having been incurred on repairs to buildings and travelling
45 allowance of officers.
46 At the commencement of the year under report the duty
47 on Kohat salt stood at eight annas a Lahori maund of 1027 Ibs.
48 avoirdupois, equivalent to6 annas 4 ae pies a maund by British ,
49 weight. In Finance and Commerce Department Notification
50 No. 25478.R., dated the 12th June 1896, the Government of
51 India raised the duty on Kohat salt to Rs. 2.a Lahori maund,
52 equivalent to Rs. 1-9-7 = a maund by British weight, with
53 effect from the 13th of July 1896. Roughly, it may be said
54 that between the duty (Rs. 2-8-0 a maund) on cis-Indus salt
55 and that levied on Kohat salt, there was a difference, (1) of
56 Rs. 2-1-7a British maund prior to the 13th of July 1896, and (2)
57 of about 1445 annas subsequent to that date.
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